A child who died in a fire that critically injured her mother and five siblings has been identified as 5-year-old Sivntxhi Vang by the Ramsey County medical examiner’s office.

She died Wednesday at Regions Hospital after a fire broke out early that morning at her Payne-Phalen home. Along with her mother, she was one of six siblings, ages 1 to 6, who had not been able to escape the fire. When firefighters carried them out of the smoke-filled house they were all unconscious and were immediately administered CPR.

Her father, Pa Cheng Vang Vang, wrote on a GoFundMe page that she was his oldest twin daughter.

The fire department determined the fire on Arkwright Street near Maryland Avenue was accidental and the cause is under investigation, said Deputy Fire Chief Roy Mokosso.

Firefighters were notified at 1:30 a.m. Wednesday. A 911 call was believed to have come from inside the house. There were working smoke detectors in the home, but the occupants were likely unable to escape because of the location of the fire on the first floor and because one adult was alone with six children, Mokosso said Wednesday.

Vang was at work when the fire broke out.

Three of Vang’s other children “are at high risk of heart failure and brain death due to the high amount of smoke they” inhaled, Vang wrote. Their mother “is also at high risk of not recovering. Please help pray and hope that they all will make it.”

Two of Vang’s children “were able to get out of a critical zone, thank God,” he wrote.

The conditions of the children were not available Friday night.

The GoFundMe can be found at gofundme.com/f/siv-ntshiab.

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