{"id":106081,"date":"2025-12-23T08:12:11","date_gmt":"2025-12-23T08:12:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/106081\/"},"modified":"2025-12-23T08:12:11","modified_gmt":"2025-12-23T08:12:11","slug":"2-young-girls-killed-in-socal-house-fire-days-before-christmas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/106081\/","title":{"rendered":"2 young girls killed in SoCal house fire days before Christmas"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>A house fire in Murrieta killed two young girls Saturday morning and left their parents hospitalized, days ahead of Christmas. A crowd fundraiser has raised tens of thousands of dollars to support them and their surviving child during their recovery. <\/p>\n<p>Murrieta Fire &amp; Rescue responded to a 911 call at 4:42 a.m.  Saturday in the 41000 block of Knight Drive. <\/p>\n<p>By the time firefighters arrived six minutes later, several structures \u2014 a mobile home, a carport and two other outbuildings \u2014 as well as three vehicles and  a large pine tree  were already aflame, the city department said in a <a class=\"link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.murrietaca.gov\/CivicAlerts.aspx?AID=1196\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">release<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Three people were taken to a hospital, according to Fire &amp; Rescue, and two  people died at the scene, along with several  pets. <\/p>\n<p>Fire officials could not be reached to identify the victims but, in an email to The Times, a close friend of the family identified the victims as 11-year-old Abagail Keenan and her sister Emma Keenan, 12. <\/p>\n<p>Emma\u2019s twin sister, Ashley, survived alongside their  parents, Stacey Hales and Adam Keenan, their friend Andrea Raikoglo told The Times. <\/p>\n<p>Raikoglo started a GoFundMe page for the family and had raised more than $54,000 as of Monday afternoon to help  the family  and pay for the girls\u2019 funeral costs. <\/p>\n<p>Hales\u2019 brother, Scott Nalder, will receive the funds on her behalf, the fundraiser said. <\/p>\n<p>Hales\u2019 eyesight was damaged in the fire, according to Raikoglo, but she said that Hales was out of the hospital and recovering her sight.<\/p>\n<p>They are grateful for the help but heartbroken over the loss of the girls, Raikoglo said, writing that \u201cnothing is going to bring those poor children back.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Fire &amp; Rescue said the cause of the fire was under investigation. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A house fire in Murrieta killed two young girls Saturday morning and left their parents hospitalized, days ahead&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":106082,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[11418,9479,57269,1431,3802,48,52,51,47,50,49,56583,7087,592,57268,7648,57270,57266,1791,2601,57267],"class_list":{"0":"post-106081","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-los-angeles","8":"tag-brother","9":"tag-christmas","10":"tag-crowd-fundraiser","11":"tag-family","12":"tag-fire","13":"tag-la","14":"tag-la-headlines","15":"tag-la-news","16":"tag-los-angeles","17":"tag-los-angeles-headlines","18":"tag-los-angeles-news","19":"tag-murrieta","20":"tag-parent","21":"tag-people","22":"tag-raikoglo","23":"tag-rescue","24":"tag-socal-house-fire-day","25":"tag-stacey-hales","26":"tag-times","27":"tag-victim","28":"tag-young-girl"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106081","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=106081"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106081\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/106082"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=106081"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=106081"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=106081"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}