UPDATE: Smoke inhalation killed two North Charleston children

*Update 8/25/09 5pm*

The Charleston County Coroner’s office announced that smoke inhalation was the cause of death for 3-month-old Tatyanna Green and 2-year-old Anthony Lazo.  Both children perished inside a mobile home which caught fire around 3:45 Monday afternoon.

The children’s mother says there was a smoke detector in their mobile home but she never heard it go off.  She was in the bathroom when the fire started and she thinks her son Anthony knocked over a hot electric table lamp to ignite it.

Amy Robinson, 27, says she couldn’t find her two youngest children in the fire and first tried to put it out by smothering it with a blanket. 

*Update 8/25/09 12:00 pm*

The parents of two children who died in a fire in a North Charleston mobile home returned to the scene Tuesday.

Check back for updates.

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A North Charleston community is mourning after a fire destroyed a mobile home killing two children.

The fire was on Lakewood Drive in the Ferndale neighborhood of North Charleston and destroyed a home and claimed the lives of two children, a 2-month-old girl and a 2-year-old boy. They were in their mother’s bedroom, family members told News 2.

The mother Amy Robinson, 27, says she was in the bathroom when a lamp fell over causing the fire.  She says that she brought her oldest daughter outside to escape the fire, but could not find the other two children because of the thick smoke.

Fire officials say the cause of the fire is under-investigation.

Robinson says the 2-year-old boy’s name was Anthony Lazo and the 3-month-old girl’s name was Tatyanna Green.

A third child in the home was rescued by Uncle Mozack Green, a relative of the owner of the trailer home. He said he tried to break the windows to rescue the children inside but the fire was too hot.

“When i bust the windows and stuff like that - was gonna jump through the window but the flame caught me and i had to back out.“

Officials said the call came in around 3:45 pm when firefighters who were in the area saw smoke.  One firefighter was taken to the hospital and treated for heat exhaustion.