Central Kentucky house fire kills 10

Most of the victims were dead by the time firefighters reached them, Nelson County coroner Field Houghlin said.

The last two bodies discovered in the charred brick home were children, both found under the bodies of adults, said Emergency Medical Services director Joe Prewitt. The relationships and ages of the 12 people in the house and the conditions of the survivors were not released.

The blaze broke out shortly before 4 a.m. in the home in Bardstown, about 40 miles southeast of Louisville. Fire officials were still trying to pin down the cause.

?It may have been an explosion in the center of the house. The fire flashed very quickly,? said Bardstown Fire Department spokesman Tom Isaac.

Janet Tonge identified one of the victims as her sister, 40-year-old Sherry Maddox. Tonge said Maddox?s boyfriend, Johnny Litsey, a 2-year-old boy, girl twins, an 11-year-old child and a 1-year-old child also died in the fire.

?How do you prepare for a funeral this large? How do you do it?? Tonge said. ?We?re not capable of thinking right now. We?re like that house, burned out.?

Bardstown Fire Chief Anthony Mattingly said the fire spread too rapidly for firefighters to get inside.