Community Rallies For Twin Sisters, 5, Killed In Delco House Fire

UPPER DARBY, PA — Community members are rallying for the family of two young twin sisters who died in a Delaware County house fire Tuesday.

The girls, identified as Eva and Ava Brown-Williams, were just 5 years old when they died Tuesday.

A fire broke out in a home on the 300 block of Margate Road in Upper Darby at about 4 a.m. Tuesday.

Upper Darby firefighters found the sisters in their bedroom on the home's second floor.

A GoFundMe campaign has been launched for the Brown family.

As of 2:30 p.m. Thursday, more than $5,000 of the $12,000 goal has been reached.

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One neighbor told Fox 29 he could hear the girls crying for help and that he went into the fire to save them by was unable to.

Their mother, identified as Robyn Brown, was able to escape the home through a second floor back window but suffered burns.

"She fought to save her children, that's why she's burnt up," the twins' aunt Carolyn Pugh told Fox 29.

Action News reports Robyn Brown was up late Monday into Tuesday writing the obituary for her brother, Denzel Brown, who died in a Philadelphia shooting March 27.

Upper Darby fire officials and police are still investigating the cause of the fire.

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