The victims of the Las Vegas fire that killed 4 people have been identified | Southwest

AND GoFundMe page and a relative identified the victims a wildfire in the southwest Las Vegas valley Two adults and two children died last week.

Just before 4:10 a.m. Thursday, fire crews were called to 8332 Langhorne Creek Street, near the area of ​​West Windmill Lane and South Jones Boulevard.

The victims were Abraham Adem, his brother Abdul Adem and Abdul Adem’s children Anaya and Aliyah, according to a fundraiser that had raised more than $82,000 as of Monday morning.

In a brief telephone interview, Awet Adem, Abdul’s brother who was not home at the time of the fire, gave the Review-Journal different spellings for some of the victims.

He said his brothers Ibrahim Adem and Abdul Adem were killed, as well as Abdul Adem’s children Anaya and Aaliayh. He said Aaliayh turned six on October 16 and Anaya turned eight in November.

Adem declined to say the ages of his brothers.

Authorities said the mother and child jumped from a third-story window and were taken to the hospital.

Awet Adem and the collection organizers identified Senait and Amani Adem as the mother and child who escaped.

Adem said he and his brothers emigrated from Africa in the early 1990s with their mother for a better life. He said their father died when they were young.

“Now Senait and her surviving child face the unimaginable task of mourning their beloved family while having to rebuild their lives from scratch,” the fundraiser says. “Their home, which held treasured memories of their lost family, is uninhabitable and beyond repair.”

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