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‘Heartbreaking:’ Support Surges For Family Of Girl, Baby Brother Who Died In Jersey City Fire ‘Heartbreaking:’ Support Surges For Family Of Girl, Baby Brother Who Died In Jersey City Fire
‘Heartbreaking:’ Support Surges For Family Of Girl, Baby Brother Who Died In Jersey City Fire Support is surging for the family of an 11-year-old girl and her 8-month-old baby brother who died in a Jersey City fire Thursday morning. Desire Reid tried to rescue her 8-month-old baby brother, Keyon Robinson, from an upstairs bedroom of the blaze, which broke out at 470 Martin Luther King Drive around 11:30 p.m., authorities said. The childrens’ mother and a six-year-old boy were able to evacuate before firefighters arrived. Reid and Robinson, however, were pronounced dead. “Yesterday we had a terrible tragedy in #JerseyCity where 2 young children passed away in a fire,” Mayor Steven F…