Three boys who spent Christmas night with their grandmother because they did not want her to be alone were killed in a fire at her house.
The blaze ripped through the home in the town of Washington Court House, Ohio, at 4am on Friday morning, killing Terry Harris, 60, and three of her grandchildren.
Braylon Harris, nine, 11-year-old Broderick and 14-year-old Kenyon had wanted to stay with Mrs Harris because they were concerned about her.
Mrs Harris lived on her own in the single-storey, ranch-style house while her children lived two houses away.
Fayette County Sheriff Vernon Stanforth said: "They didn't want their grandma to be by herself on Christmas night; that's why they spent the night there.
"The children just adored their grandmother.
"The grandma was close to the front door. The other children were behind her and so we're just assuming that she was by the front door, that she was trying to corral the children to help them get out."
He told CBS News in Cleveland: "To lose three children and a grandparent, it's devastating to the family. The fact that it's the holidays makes it even worse for the community."
He said he had known the family for some time. The oldest boy is understood to have wrestled competitively.
"They're a very close-knit family. They were good boys," he said.
A prayer vigil was held for the family in the town on Friday night.
It took firefighters several hours to find the bodies as the site remained very hot and unstable for some time.
Fayette County coroner Dr Dennis Mesker said the badly burned bodies had been turned over to the Montgomery County coroner's office to allow the identities to be confirmed and post mortem examinations to be carried out.
An investigation is under way to determine the cause of the fire. Counselling services were being made available for classmates of the children who had died.
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