AKIPRESS.COM - Six members of the same family, including a boy on a Father's Day trip to Newark to honor his deceased dad, were killed when a fast-moving fire ripped through a single-family home in New Jersey's largest city early Sunday, the FOX News said Monday.

The blaze broke out at the three-story residence at around 4 a.m., the Essex County Prosecutor's office said. The fire soon spread to another residence, and both homes were destroyed. Everyone in the second home managed to escape safely, authorities said.

A spokesman for the Newark Fire Department told the Star-Legder that flames were "already shooting out the window" of the houses when firefighters arrived.

Late Sunday, Essex County Acting Prosecutor Carolyn Murray identified the victims as Salome Stewart, 58; her husband Reginald, also 58; Salome's sister, Natasha Kinsale, 47; Noreen Johnson, 43; her son, Stephen Sydney, 15; and Zion Forbes, 11. The Stewarts and Kinsale lived in the house, according to authorities, while the other three were visiting.

Standing outside the burned-out residence, Stephen Sydney's grandmother, Iris, told The Associated Press a sheriff's deputy informed her after she arrived home from church that her grandson had died.

Iris Sydney said the boy and his mother were visiting from Crawford, Ga. so he could attend services at his father's church on Father's Day. Desmond Sydney, the boy's father, died in a bicycle accident two years ago. Iris Sydney said they didn't show up for church, as planned, and she returned home to find the deputy.