Family members and friends gather at the scene of a fatal fire that broke out that morning in a duplex home in Utica, N.Y. Monday, May 9, 2011, killing a mother and her three children. Firefighters were thwarted in their first attempt to search the building when a staircase collapsed. They used hoses to push the flames to the rear of the building and conducted a second search. The cause of the fire was not known. (AP Photo/Steve Jacobs)