Annapolis mansion destroyed by fire

Six family members still missing in Annapolis mansion fire

Authorities said Tuesday they are continuing to look for six family members — two adults and four children — who are missing after  the fire in Anne Arundel County and that they are still trying to get inside the wreckage of the large-scale home.
The family members were last seen inside the home on Childs Point Road in Annapolis, according to officials with the Anne Arundel Fire Department. No details have been released from officials as to who may have been in the home at the time of the fire, and officials are saying the family members are “unaccounted for.”
Capt. Russ Davies, a spokesman for the Anne Arundel County Fire Department, said they were “not providing the identities of who the unaccounted for are until we locate them and get positive identifications.”
Because of the severity of the damage at the mansion, where seven-foot beams need to be removed and the roof, first and second floors collapsed into the basement, no firefighters or investigators have been inside the home.
Authorities said at a news conference outside the home Tuesday morning that they were considering the incident as a “serious fire” and were engaged in an “active criminal investigation,” although they cautioned that they had no reason to believe that it was a suspicious fire.