Kids killed with woman in Queensland house fire were on 'sleepover', mayor says

The two teenage boys who died alongside a woman in a deadly house fire in Gladstone, Queensland , were having a sleepover the night before the blaze.

The fire broke out at about 5.56am yesterday at a home on Whiting Street, Toolooa.

Residents said they heard bangs and explosions, as well as a woman screaming for help.

The bodies of two boys and a woman were found after firefighters extinguished the blaze.

9News understands they were Jordana Johnson, Jordan Norris and Chazz Mather.

Gladstone mayor Matt Burnett confirmed to Today this morning that the boys had been on a sleepover.

"There's two sisters on one side, one family, that's 21 and 17 years old, a 17-year-old who's lost her home, lost her brother, lost her mother," he said.

"You know, it's just heartbreaking."

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