Baby Dies in Olean Fire -UPDATE

One child is dead and another is still missing after a late night house fire in Olean.

A one-year-old reportedly died in the fire that started at about 11:20 Sunday nigh on South Second Street. Firefighters are searching the what's left of the house for another child. A four-year-old boy escaped the house without being hurt, but his father was taken to ECMC in critical condition.

The names of the victims have not been released.

All of those victims lived together in a first floor apartment. Four tenants from a second floor apartment of the same building escaped without injury.

A woman who lives next door was taken to Olean General Hospital for treatment of smoke inhalation.


We'll have more information as it becomes available.

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