Deadly San Leandro House Fire Updates – NBC Bay Area

While firefighters continue to examine a fatal house fire in San Leandro, the family who lived in the residence deals with an unimaginable loss.

The family friend Anionette Lucchesi said that the family of the family, 90-year-old Shirley Demerese, was one of the three people who did not survive.

“She took care of the whole family,” said Lucchesi. “She was the rock.”

Lucchesi said the fire broke out in the room in which Demerse twin children had slept down, 6-year-old Aliyah couldn't do it, but her sister Ella managed to escape.

“She wants to know if she is still a twin,” said Lucchesi. “We don't know how to answer that.”

Lucchesi said the fire also called for the life of the grandmother of the twins, the 66-year-old Pam Morrow, who calls her a rock star.

“She was funny. She had a rock star background,” said Lucchesi. “She likes to drive motorcycles when she was a little younger. She was just great.”

A neighbor said the fire quickly decreased and triggered explosions. The neighbor said that he and his wife had helped to take care of the survivor twin, who kept asking her sister while firefighters arrived.

The examination continues in San Leandro a house fire in which three people and several others were killed in the hospital. Kris Sanchez reports.

A fourth resident of the house is in a critical condition in a combustion center.

Lucchesi said Desiree Kimbell, the partner of one of the aunts, was critically injured when she desperately tried to save Aliyah.

“She fought so hard to get her,” said Lucchesi. “Her lungs are so damaged at the moment that she is in a coma. She doesn't wake up.”

According to Lucchesi, the family believes that an electronic bike or a scooter started the fire on the load. But while the family wants to answer, they concentrate on grouping themselves and recovering.

“You need help now,” said Lucchesi.

Lucchesi has set up a gofundme to help the family get back on its feet.

Three people died and some others were taken to the hospital on Thursday after a fire broke out in a house in San Leandro, firefighters said. Jocelyn Moran reports the latest details.