The boys father mother and sister are still in the hospital. As investigators try to figure out what went wrong. Lets get out to jeff cole whos life in schwenksville for us tonight. Jeff . Reporter iain, a make shift memorial is rising outside of the dark and blackened Lukens Family home. Early morning fire likely powered by heavy winds has claimed the lives of young lukens boys. Just after 5 00 on a blustery morning flames and smoke can be seen rising from the summit of a twostory home. Fire crews arrived to find brian lukens, his wife tracy and nineyearold daughter sophia out of the home. But sons brian, jr. , 11 and parker six remain inside where they perish. You know he did everything he possibly could to get his boys out of the home. So its just absolutely tragic and i cant imagine the pain. Reporter by daylight state and local fire investigators were inside and out of the wooden structure built in 1960. Brian lukens a Deputy Montgomery county sheriff bought his family home six ye
Brian Deputy Montgomery county sheriff was out of the house when fire crews arrived along with his wife tracy and nineyearold daughter sophia. Inside in their second floor bedroom 11yearold brian, jr. , and sixyearold parker. Unfortunately there were two juvenile males located on the second floor deceased. The cause of this fire is unknown at this time. Reporter by daylight, the blackened structure was surrounded by state and local fire investigators who could be seen handling what looked like a scorched piece of wire. Nearby, what appeared to be a blackened portable heater. Kyles son grayson was pals with brian, jr. Here they are brian on the right enjoying a field trip just last week. What are you telling your boys . You know, we gave them a big hug this morning. My wife broke the news to my son. And he broke down immediately. Reporter a truck destroyed by the flames in a car sit in the driveway investigators removed several guns from a gun locker in the front of the home. Dave about
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Bucks county said all of the county resources are being dedicate today returning these men home safely. Last week when the four men went missing here in bucks county. Those men include two teenagers, spawned this joint Police Investigation with local and state police from plumbstead to middletown township. The missing men are jimi tar patrick, last seen july 5th, reported missing after he never showed to up work that day. Two days later then dean finocchiaro, last reported siting of him was getting into a vehicle in langhorne, also on july 7th, when mark sturgis, and tom meo went missing seen in the doyle towns area together. Authorities overnight located the carve one of the missing men, then focused attention on house along aquetong road. Police are not saying what they have found at that home or how it is relevant to this mysterious disappearance of four men here in bucks county. I can tell this investigation of course is a priority for every agency involved, and weve been working a
Questions remaining about the disappearance and whether foul play is involved. Some investigations go on until they peter out. We are about as far from that as zero is to 100. This investigation, the leads are hot, very fruitful. We are making great progress but there is so much more work to do. Reporter and on that question of whether there is foul play involved here, the District Attorney saying that it seems so. And you know his answer to that question this afternoon a little different than this morning when they said they simply dont know. He does say they are leading in that direction. I asked him what was convincing him. He said it was information that he had that he could not reveal. Our digital team has been following every development of this story. Download the nbc 10 app to get updates as they happen and on any breaking news. To first alert weather. We are tracking severe storms headed our way for tomorrow afternoon. They may be several hours away but we are getting you read