A child is dead after a house fire in Mandarin started with three people – a father and his two children – inside Sunday morning.
The Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office and Jacksonville Fire Rescue Department responded to the fire at the 2400 block of Canal Way in Mandarin around 3 a.m. Sunday.
According to a JSO spokesperson, the father and one child made it out of the house, but the other child did not survive.
Sgt. Lloyd with the Jacksonville Sheriff’s Department told First Coast News that the cause of the fire is still under investigation.
