Pastor, 2 Sons Die ‘Holding Onto’ Each Other After He Saves Wife, Other Kids in House Fire

Six children are mourning the deaths of their father — a pastor — and two of their siblings after a horrific house fire in Ohio this week.

According to a news release from the Ohio Department of Commerce, firefighters were called to a residence fire in Orient, Ohio around 12:22 a.m. Tuesday. The statement confirmed that there were “three confirmed deaths of men aged 55, 17 and 10”.

Pastor Mark Robinette was able to pull six of his eight children out of a window and save his wife Andrea, his cousin Haley McGuire wrote on Facebook on Wednesday.

After realizing that two of his sons, Gideon, 17, and Liam, 10, had not left the house, he went back inside and the three were unable to get out, McGuire wrote, adding that he was “found holding them both.”

Photo of a burnt house.

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“His wife and six other children are now without anything. They lost everything in the fire, including their phones,” her post continued. The family is now staying at a hotel, according to WBNS-TV.

While the Ohio Department of Commerce said there is no indication of foul play, the incident remains under investigation by the State Fire Marshal’s Office of Fire and Explosion Investigation, the Pickaway County Sheriff’s Office and the Coroner’s Office.

“I just came here to be with the family. They’ve lost everything. There’s a lot of needs. They don’t even have shoes… They’re going to need help, but they need our prayers and anything he can do for them,” said Mike Comer, another of Robinette’s relatives. , to WLBT in a story published Wednesday.

Photo by Pastor Mark Robinette.

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“Mark was so great for so many people, his foundation and his missionary work. He went and built churches in Myanmar,” Comer added.

Robinette founded the foundation church in 2000 in Mt. Sterling. According to the church’s website, he worked as a day pastor and was in ministry for more than 20 years.

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A GoFundMe campaign has been set up to help Robinette’s family. “Their house and all their belongings are completely destroyed, and the winter is severe. All they have left is the nightgown they were wearing and the vehicle, and that’s all,” the message on the page reads.

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