CARIBOU, Maine - The four people killed in a mobile home fire in Caribou this morning were a mother and her three young children.
The state Fire Marshal's Office has identified them as Norma Skidgel, 28, and her three children, a twin boy and girl, Mason and Madison Delisle, 2, and another boy, Trenton Delisle, 3. Trenton would have turned 4 next week.
Authorities say the fire at the Westgate Mobile Home Park was reported at about 7 a.m. The four victims were found by firefighters in a back bedroom, state officials say.
Three other people lived in the home, including Skidgel's sister Amy Bouchard and her two sons. Maine Public Safety Department officials say Bouchard had left the mobile home to take one of her sons to a bus stop and when she returned the home was on fire. Her other son had spent the night elsewhere.
Bouchard is being treated at a Caribou hospital for smoke inhalation suffered when she tried to get into the burning home.
The bodies of the four victims will be taken to the state medical Examiner's Office in Augusta for autopsies, officials say, which are likely to take place on Friday.
Investigators found a smoke detector in the destroyed dwelling with its battery removed. It's not clear if there were other smoke detectors in the home. The cause of the fire remains under investigation.
