New York ? Fire swept through a home early Wednesday in Binghamton, killing a woman and three of her children and damaging four other buildings, including a neighboring church.

The father managed to alert his oldest daughter in time for her to escape and then jumped to safety from a second-floor window, Fire Chief Clifford Colgan said.

Emergency crews found Michael Ray, 56, and his daughter Courtney, 17, on the front lawn. Killed in the fire were Laurie Ray, 34, her son, Kenneth, 16, and two other daughters, Alicia, 15, and Christy, 10.

A church next door to the destroyed home was heavily damaged, three neighboring homes were damaged and an unknown number of residents were evacuated from those buildings.

Binghamton is a city of about 45,000 residents just north of the Pennsylvania state line.