37-year-old Jessi Pierce and her children, Hudson, Cayden and Avery perished when their home in White Bear Lake started on fire Saturday morning. The family’s dog also died in the blaze.
The White Bear Lake Fire Department says crews responded to a report of a residential structure fire in a single-family home in the 2100 block of Richard Ave. just before 5:30 Saturday morning.
A Northern Minnesota man plugged in his disposable vape and left the house for a couple of hours. He returned home to find the fire department extinguishing a fire in his kitchen.
One of Minnesota's biggest events suffered a major blow yesterday when a massive fire broke out and burned several buildings and hundreds of vendor booths to the ground.