Kenneth Jennings, right, helps hold crime scene tape as a hearse carrying the remains of children leaves the scene of an East St. Louis apartment fire on Friday, Aug. 6, 2021. Officials say five children all younger than 10 who were left home without an adult died in a fire at an apartment building in southwestern Illinois. Jennings lives in the basement of the apartments and escaped with a few belongings. (Robert Cohen/St. Louis Post-Dispatch via AP), APTOPIX