EAST FORK OF TWELVE POLE — Firemen had no chance to save two elderly siblings who died in a house fire at East Fork of Twelve Pole Monday night, according to an emergency services official.

Jarod Fletcher, Mingo County Emergency Services director, said Tuesday afternoon that the home occupied by 79-year-old Ivan Gore and his sister, 74-year-old Marilyn Baisden, was already fully engulfed when firemen from the East Fork of Twelve Pole Volunteer Fire Departent arrived on the scene.

“There was nothing they could do,” Fletcher said. “It was a real old, two-story house and it was already flattened by the time the firemen got there. It was old wood and that goes up really fast.”

Fletcher said Ivan Gore’s wife, whose identity was not available as of press time Wednesday morning, escaped the blazing home.

Fletcher said he believed faulty wiring may have been the cause of the fire.

The state fire marshal and the Mingo County Sheriff’s Department were called in to investigate the house fire. An official cause of the fire was not yet available. Fletcher said firemen were hindered in reaching the house fire due to bad road conditions. The fire started around 6 p.m. Monday night and had been extinguished by 8 p.m., a report to The Logan Banner said.