FREMONT, Ind. — A mother and her three young children were killed Saturday morning in a northern Indiana house fire.
Firefighters were called to Fremont at around 5 a.m. for a fire at a home in the 400 block of East Toledo Street.
Firefighters found a woman and three children inside the burning home.
On Sunday, the family of four was identified as 37-year-old Rebecca White, her son, 5-year-old Emmett Freed and her two daughters, 3-year-old Eleanor Freed and 21-month-old Alaura Freed.
They were all taken to an Angola hospital, where the three children died.
Their mom was flown from the Angola hospital to a burn center at a Fort Wayne hospital where she later died, according to Indiana State Police.
The State Fire Marshal's Office is investigating the cause and origin of the fire.
Fire investigators preliminarily believe the fire started on the second floor of the home in an area that wasn't occupied at the time.
Fire investigators also believe White and her three children were all in the same bedroom when the fire broke out.
Their autopsies, which will determine their cause and manner of death, were scheduled to take place Sunday at the Northeast Indiana Forensic Center in Fort Wayne.
Indiana State Police said it would be coordinating with the State Fire Marshal's Office and the Steuben County Coroner's Office to determine if there was a criminal element to this fire.
