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The children, who ranged in age from two to 13, died trapped by the blaze in the Arizona house.

A father was Christmas shopping when his four children and a young relative died in an Arizona house fire, police said.

Investigators in northwestern Arizona said on Tuesday they have yet to determine what started the blaze, which began Saturday evening in the downstairs foyer area of the two-story duplex

A Bullhead City Fire Department employee was the grandfather of the victims, police revealed.

A father in Arizona who left four children and a young relative at home so he could buy Christmas gifts and groceries returned to find the charred remains of the familys home after a fire broke out, killing all five children inside, authorities said.

Their bodies were all found in an upstairs bedroom, investigators said

Neighbors said they tried their best to get inside to get anyone who was there out but couldn't.

Their bodies were all found in an upstairs bedroom, investigators said.

Four siblings and a relative, all grandkids of a fire department employee, were killed in the blaze, police said.

Neighbors reported that they tried valiantly to save the children, to no avail. All five were grandchildren of a local fire department employee, in Bullhead City, Ariz.