Dry Christmas tree likely caused Annapolis mansion fire that killed 6

Five bodies were recovered in the days after the fire; the final one on Monday.

The grandchildren were identified as Alexis (Lexi) Boone, 8; Kaitlyn (Katie) Boone, 7; Charlotte Boone, 8; and Wesley (Wes) Boone, 6. They are the children of Sandra Pyle’s sons, Randy and Clint Boone, according to a statement from their families.

“We are relieved that our loved ones have all been recovered,” the Boone and Pyle families said in a statement released Tuesday. “We thank the men, women and canine service animals who have worked so tirelessly to bring them home to us. Though we are grieving deeply, this has brought us some small sense of closure. We take comfort in that they are now together, and we can begin to mend our hearts.”

Pyle’s company biography described him as an industry veteran who has held multiple CEO positions, with more than 25 years’ experience in information technology infrastructure software and hardware management.

Pyle told The Washington Post last year that after holding positions in a family business, he decided to look for an “industry that was in its infancy and something that would have growth potential.” He started in a sales position in a firm that connected computers over transmission lines, and later sold both hardware and software components for the Internet.

Pyle told the newspaper he eventually moved from sales to sales management to general management positions. In 1992, the company went public and was sold to Cisco Systems five years later for $4.2 billion, according to the Post.

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