It was the news everyone had been fearing since late Thursday night, when an inferno roared through the Barclay Friends Senior Living Center in West Chester.
The first thing officials had to do was try to account for all the residents.
More than 130 residents and 15 staff were heroically evacuated as the blaze raged through the structure.
But not all the residents.
Yesterday Chester County District Attorney Tom Hogan gave the news we feared: Four residents remain unaccounted for. Officials are not expecting a miracle.
ATF teams will now be brought in to sift through the rubble.
Hogan said that with high winds whipping the flames quickly through the structure, it's conceivable in a fire of this sort that the toll could have been much worse, that maybe as many as 40 to 50 people could have been lost.
You can get all the latest details on this tragedy here.
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