-e have joel d smith llve on the sceee with the latest on this fiie., and it's a tragic morning now. 5 people aae dead..33 the firefighters weet inside trying to looo for people tryiig to save people but eveenually that.found out were too late for they are ssying becauseeit was -ecauue of the fireeand thh ssoke and it was veryyheavy, the 2300 block of homewood avenue.ú two homes you see riiht there don't know hich one it started in at this point. when firefighters got here around 5:00, already heavy flames, a lot of damage, they tried tt go inside iniiially, they were trying to put out the ú%re but the wind was really their eneey today as it fueled the fire, got itt oing, where it was too hot, too dangerous. they pulled the firefighters3 outt worked on what they all an exterior attack trying to knock it down from the outside.3 when they mmde ennugh progress by that, they sent everyyody at that point when they were loooing or people, it was too laae. they were left with insteadú rrporting that 5 peopll werr ú%ad. instead of what they were trying to do w