Eight people were found dead in a burning Tulsa-area house in what was being investigated as multiple homicides. The fire was reported at about 4 pm on Thursday in a quiet residential area of Broken Arrow, Oklahoma.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Broken Arrow police said that although the fire and the deaths were being investigated as homicides, they did not believe an immediate threat to the public existed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Police spokesman Ethan Hutchins said the scene was complex \u201cwith a lot of moving parts,\u201d so no other information was being released immediately. Witnesses told police that a family of eight had lived in the house, two adults and six children, but the bodies have not been positively identified, Hutchins said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cUnderstandably, this is a shock to Broken Arrow. It\u2019s a safe city. Broken Arrow doesn\u2019t have this kind of situation every day,\u201d Hutchins said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Catelin Powers said she was driving with her children nearby when she saw a column of smoke near her house, so she drove past to investigate.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cWhen I got closer to the house, I saw smoke pouring out from the very top of the house, which looked like maybe the attic,\u201d she told The Associated Press.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Two men and a woman on her phone were standing in front of the house, Powers said, when another man emerged from the front door dragging an apparently unconscious, unresponsive woman. \u201cHer arms were flopped to her sides,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cShe was in either very short shorts or underwear and a tight shirt,\u201d Power said. She described the woman as having a tan complexion \u201cand looked maybe to be mid-twenties.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Suspecting the woman was dead, Powers said she drove on so her children would be spared the sight.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Broken Arrow is Tulsa\u2019s biggest suburb, with almost 115,000 residents. The US Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives was assisting in the investigation, he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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