Christmas morning blaze kills 5 in Connecticut family

An elderly couple and their three granddaughters were killed when fire
 roared through a house in Stamford, Connecticut, early on Christmas
 morning. Two people, including the girls' mother, survived,
 authorities said.
 Stamford Mayor Michael Pavia and acting Fire Chief Antonio Conte
 confirmed the deaths from the scene of the three-alarm blaze, which
 erupted just before 5 a.m. in the Shippan Point neighborhood near the
 city's harbor.
 "It is a terrible, terrible day ... We lost five residents this
 morning," Pavia said in a video posted on the Stamford Advocate
 newspaper's website.
 "This is Christmas Day. There probably has not been a worse Christmas
 Day in the city of Stamford ... Our hearts and prayers go out to the
 family and to emergency personnel on the scene," he added.
 The owner of the house was identified as Madonna Badger, "and the
 people who perished were her mother and father, who were visiting ...
 and her three children -- three girls, (one aged) 10, and 7-year old
 twins," Stamford Police Department Detective Paul Guzda told Reuters.
 Badger and a male acquaintance, described as a contractor who was
 working on the house, were injured in the fire but were expected to
 make a full recovery, Guzda said. Both survivors were middle-aged, he
 said.
 Firefighters attempted to rescue those trapped in the burning house,
 but "they were pushed back by intense flame and heat," Conte said. He
 added that the cause of the fire was under investigation.
 Video footage showed flames engulfing a house in a residential
 district of large homes.
 Emergency workers later recovered the victims' bodies, but Conte said
 it could take a number of days for investigators to determine the
 origins of the blaze.
 Stamford is located on Connecticut's shore on Long Island Sound, about
 40 miles northeast of New York City.
 
 Deuteronomy 32:22- For a fire is kindled in mine anger, and shall burn
 unto the lowest hell,
 
 Amos 5:21 I hate, I despise your feast days, and I will not smell in your solemn assemblies.
 
 Amos 5: 22 Though ye offer me burnt offerings and your meat offerings, I will not accept them: neither will I regard the peace offerings of your fat beasts.