ORANGE, N.J. (WCBS) - Thanksgiving turned tragic for one family in New Jersey.

Two sisters died in a house fire while helping their father escape.

Relatives and neighbors hugged, steeped in shock and heartbreak outside a burned and uninhabitable home on Mosswood Avenue in Orange.

It is where the two sisters, identified as family and officials as 49-year-old Frantzia Fleury and 42-year-old Pojanee “PJ” Fleury, died, according to the Essex County Prosecutor’s Office.

Surrounded by fire, they fought to find and save their father, but the sisters did not come out alive.

Their father was later rescued and is hospitalized.

A cousin said the siblings are survived by one child each.

“Understand these two women had big hearts,” the cousin said. “They were very deeply devoted to their familie

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