4 Pinoys die in Jersey fire

Four members of a Filipino immigrant family were killed in a fire that razed their two-story house in Union, New Jersey last Wednesday.

The New York Times reported that the four family members who were killed were Edgardo Aguas, 57; his wife Digna, 47; their daughter, Emily 13; and grandmother Flotilda Tullao, 86.

Mrs. Tullao, who lived in Perth, Australia, was on a four-month visit to New Jersey. She attended the Aguases’ 25th wedding anniversary last October and was also supposed to celebrate Christmas with them.

The report said that the fifth member of the Aguas clan, EJ, escaped the blaze by jumping out of the first floor window of their house. He suffered minor injuries and was released from a hospital late Wednesday.

He is staying with an uncle in Northern Bergen. – Pia Lee-Brago