A 70-year-old woman died Tuesday after a fire tore through several rowhomes in Philadelphia's East Germantown neighborhood and displaced 12 people. Family identified the 70-year-old as Denise Green.

Firefighters raced to the 5700 block of North Lambert Street, not far from La Salle University's North Campus dorms, at around 11:30 a.m. to find three homes on fire.

Green's family described her as a loving person and a deeply faithful Christian. She leaves behind three children and many more grandchildren.

"She's been living here for about 50 years now, and everyone on the block knows her, her daughter, her sons," Denisha Addison, Green's niece, said. "It's a real tragedy. We're trying to figure out why this even happened."

While over the scene, Chopper 3 caught firefighters working on th

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