Taloyoak mourns victims of fatal house fire
RCMP names victims as 24-year-old mother and her two young sons
The community of Taloyoak is mourning the loss of three residents, all of whom died Feb. 2 in a house fire, at a funeral held Feb. 21.
The RCMP has identified the fire victims as Sarah Aiyout, 24 and her sons Victor Jr., 4 and Jordee, 2. Aiyout was pregnant with her third child when she died.
At about 7:00 p.m. Feb. 2, Taloyoak RCMP and firefighters responded to a call about a fire in a four-plex apartment building.
The occupants of the three other units were safely evacuated, but emergency workers were unable to get to Aiyout’s unit until the fire was extinguished. Firefighters discovered the bodies of all three victims in the same room of the apartment.
The father of the children is Victor Ugyuk, who was living in Yellowknife at the time of the blaze.
The RCMP continues to investigate the cause of the fire.
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