Two sisters were killed in a Thanksgiving house fire in Orange, New Jersey, while helping their disabled father escape, the Essex County prosecutor’s office said.
The victims were identified as 49-year-old Frantzia Fleury and 42-year-old Pojanee “PJ” Fleury.
2 dead, 7 safely escape house fire
The fire broke out at around 5 p.m. Thursday at a home on Mosswood Avenue between Heywood and Tremont avenues.
Prosecutors said the sisters died trying to help their father, who was disabled and diagnosed with dementia, out of the house. They were pronounced dead shortly after 6:45 p.m…