Fire investigators say two young children who were left alone in a suburban Houston motel room were playing with a lighter that caused a three-alarm fire, resulting in minor injuries to seven people.
Rachel Moreno, spokeswoman for the Harris County Fire Marshal's Office, said Thursday that the two children, siblings who are 3 and 6-years-old, were among the seven transported for evaluation.
Moreno says witnesses reported they saw the children holding a lighter while running from a room Wednesday, Oct. 9 at the Motel 6 North just off Interstate 45 about 20 miles north of Houston.
Moreno says their mother had hired a baby sitter to watch the children but the sitter left the hotel room for a time.
Investigators are conferring with Harris County prosecutors about possible charges against the sitter.
