{"id":398544,"date":"2025-11-23T06:19:27","date_gmt":"2025-11-23T06:19:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/398544\/"},"modified":"2025-11-23T06:19:27","modified_gmt":"2025-11-23T06:19:27","slug":"community-holds-vigil-for-2-kids-and-family-member-killed-in-north-philly-fire-nbc10-philadelphia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/398544\/","title":{"rendered":"Community holds vigil for 2 kids and family member killed in North Philly fire \u2013 NBC10 Philadelphia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Neighbors, friends and family of two young children and their relative who died in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcphiladelphia.com\/news\/local\/woman-2-children-killed-in-north-philly-house-fire-officials-say\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">a house fire in North Philly<\/a> on Tuesday, Nov. 18, 2025, came together to hold a vigil on Saturday. <\/p>\n<p>Dozens of people showed up for the somber event on the 3400 block of Hope Street, where a memorial is growing for\u00a06-year-old Kataleya Garcia and her 5-year-old brother Sebastian Rodriguez-DeJesus, as well as their relative, 46-year-old Nidre Annette Ayala.<\/p>\n<p>The vigil included prayers, hugs and a release of pink, purple, blue and white balloons into the air, which was followed by a &#8220;rest in peace&#8221; chant in unison. <\/p>\n<p>The fire erupted on Tuesday morning, with firefighters arriving to find the home filled with heavy smoke. <\/p>\n<p>All three people killed were pulled out of the fire and taken to area hospitals, but did not survive. <\/p>\n<p>According to family, the mother of the two kids was at work at the time.<\/p>\n<p>A neighbor, who didn\u2019t want to be identified, told NBC10 that the kids\u2019 mother rushed to the home dressed in scrubs.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMom was out working last night, and she actually arrived on the scene screaming and yelling &#8216;Where\u2019s my kids.&#8217; So that was heartbreaking,&#8221; the neighbor shared.<\/p>\n<p>Firefighters also say they found no signs of smoke detectors inside the home and are warning residents to install smoke detectors to prevent another tragedy. <\/p>\n<p>On Friday, the Philadelphia Fire Department went door-to-door in the same area and offered to install smoke detectors for free for people living there. <\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tFollowing a deadly fire in North Philadelphia, firefighters helped install fire alarms for residents who live nearby. NBC10&#8217;s Shaira Arias has the story.\u00a0\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>Officials also say that Philadelphia residents can call the fire department and obtain smoke detectors free of charge. <\/p>\n<p>As for the house on Hope Street, it is now boarded up and the cause is still under investigation. However, arson has been ruled out. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Neighbors, friends and family of two young children and their relative who died in a house fire in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":398545,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5132],"tags":[5229,12631,1448,2830,1311,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-398544","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-philadelphia","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-north-philadelphia","10":"tag-pa","11":"tag-pennsylvania","12":"tag-philadelphia","13":"tag-united-states","14":"tag-united-states-of-america","15":"tag-unitedstates","16":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","17":"tag-us","18":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115597565592804100","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/398544","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=398544"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/398544\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/398545"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=398544"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=398544"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=398544"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}