Ten people were trapped and killed and two managed to escape early Thursday from a house engulfed by flames near Brockway, a town of about 2,000 people situated about 80 miles northeast of Pittsburgh, authorities said.

Police are currently trying to find out how many people were in the house when it caught fire. Only one family lived in the rural western Pennsylvania home.

The number of people who where inside the house when it went up into flames differs depending on each report, said trooper Bruce Morris.

"There's a substantial number of people involved," he said.

Police were removing bodies from the burnt house, but Morris wouldn’t say how many corpses had been found in the ashes of the structure.

The fire started at about 2:45 a.m., said Morris. He added that the victims’ age range varied from four months to 40 years.

Two people were reported missing, but police investigators believe they were also killed in the fire.

Police are currently trying to find out what caused the house on Pershing Avenue, a main drag lined with several other single-family homes, to catch fire. Investigators said they do not believe the fire is suspicious.

Jaime Hynds, a local who lives right across the street from the burnt house, said he was sleeping at the time, but was awakened by the screams of a naked woman who was trying to get help. The approximately 19-year-old woman had jumped from the second floor of the house and ran to his home, said Hydns for The Courier-Express of DuBois

He also said that according to the woman, there were ten people inside the burning home. According to other eyewitnesses, a boy also escaped the flames.

"The fire crews arrived within minutes and ... the house was engulfed and there were confirmed entrapments," said trooper Mark Schrecengost according to The Associated Press.

Fire crews managed to contain the blaze at about 8 a.m.