The fire broke out in a building at Jaunlazdu Street 5. The State Police confirmed that the victims were minors.
At 4:59 a.m., the VUGD received information that a fire had broken out in a first-floor apartment of a four-story residential building in Ķekava County. Upon arriving at the scene, firefighters found that the fire was spreading rapidly through the floors of the building with open flames. Firefighters immediately began searching all apartments and rescuing people.