Question???

No, they died in the fire just as described. But the kids find out a lot more about their parents in bits and pieces over the series.

By the info i've collected on the internets, yes their parents are alive. I have only read up to the slippery slope, which mentions that their parents are with V.F.D.

No, the Baudelaire orphan's parents were killed in the fire. However, there is a baby named Beatrice, which, if I remember correctly, is the name of Mrs. Baudelaire, that accompanies them at the end of The End.

Many people believe the Baudelaire parents are alive but it's not true. They think this because it says that someone survived a fire in one of the books but this is revealed to be Quigley. The parents are dead. They may have misunderstood this because if they were talking about Beatrice, there are two of them. One of them is the Baudelaire's mother and the other is Kit Snicket's daughter whom is named after the mother.

no the survivor of the fire was actually the third triplet quiley