MOULTRIE, Ga. — How could five young adults in their 20s who were awake at the time a fire broke out all get trapped without any of them making it out?

That seems to be a main question confronting investigators from multiple agencies seeking answers to the cause of the blaze that claimed the lives of four young men and a young woman.

The first police officer to arrive at the scene at 8:40 a.m. found an anguished young man near the entrance to the residence and put him in an air conditioned patrol car. The first call of the fire at 505 Rossman Dairy Road came in at 8:28 a.m.

When the Colquitt County Sheriff’s Office deputy spoke with Jeffrey Peacock, he said that he went to Hardee’s restaurant to get breakfast for everyone, and when he got back about an hour later found the house engulfed in flames.

The names he gave to police matched those released on Monday by other agencies, and he based it on who was there when he left and the cars that remained parked there when he returned.

Everyone was awake inside the residence at the time he left, he told police.

The Georgia Bureau of Investigation is leading the probe into the deaths with the assistance of the Georgia Office of Insurance and Safety Fire Commissioner and the Colquitt County Sheriff’s Office.

Cobb Funeral Home identified the five dead as:

Jordan Shane Croft, 22; Jonathan Garrett Edwards Jr., 21; Alicia Brooke Norman, 20; Ramsey Jones Pidcock, 21; and Aaron Reid Williams, 21. All were of Moultrie.