FAIRMOUNT

The family of nine children and three adults who died in a Philadelphia rowhome fire are welcoming members of the community to their funeral services Monday.

A child was playing with a lighter near a Christmas tree prior to the fast-moving fire inside a Philadelphia row home that killed 12 people, including eight children, in the city’s Fairmount neighborhood, investigative sources told NBC10.

At least 12 people, including eight children, died early Wednesday when a quick-moving fire tore through a Philadelphia rowhome, crowded with 26 people in two apartments owned by the city’s public housing authority.