The father and husband of a woman and six children rescued from a house fire in St. Paul is asking for help.
On a GoFundMe page, Pa Chang Vang shared information about his family as he asked for financial help getting through the tragedy.
He wrote that his eldest daughter died on January 3, and that two more of his children are not expected to make it.
Fire Chief Butch Inks says they were able to get to the scene very quickly and one of the firefighters rescued three of the children himself.
"I've been doing this for thirty years, and I don't use that word 'heroic'," he said. "This particular individual was extremely heroic on this call."
Several ambulances, fire trucks, and police cars were on scene after the fire broke out around 1:30 a.m. Wednesday near the intersection of Arkwright and Hawthorne in St. Paul's Payne-Phalen neighborhood.
Investigators haven't said what led to the fire, which the chief said is not suspicious and appears accidental.