Keokuk, IA – The smoke from a house fire in Keokuk, Tuesday morning, is what appears to have killed two young siblings.
Lee County Medical Examiner, Dr. Eugenio Torres says 4-year-old Dylan White and 2-year-old Elizabeth White each died from smoke inhalation.
They were found after firefighters responded to a fire at the house on the northwest corner of 13th and Fulton.
Their parents, 34-year-old Matthew White and 25-year-old Joyce Boley were transported to University of Iowa Hospital with extensive burns.
The hospital would not release their conditions or verify if they were still being treated there.
A third child, whose identity has not been released, was uninjured.
The investigation into the cause of the fire is ongoing.
A make-shift memorial has been set-up at the home.