PHOTOS: Donations for family tragedy

Camryn George, 6, of Lisbon Falls, Kathryn Kruzich, center, of Freeport and Gentille Sandy of Freeport go door to door collecting donations for the Hogan family in Lisbon Falls on Sunday. Members of the Encounter Youth Group spent a wet afternoon raising $1,530 for the family that lost two children in a house fire on Friday. “They need help whether it’s sunny or rainy,” said George’s mother Michelle, a co-leader of the youth group with her husband, Rick. “We just wanted them to know that people care,” Michelle George said. The George family lives on Summer Street, just down the road from the Hogan family. “We see the kids out playing when we drive by,” George said. The Encounter Youth Group is associated with the Freeport Seventh-Day Adventist Church.

Gentille Sandy carries an envelope for donations. People were “very generous,” Michelle George said. “One person gave $100, a few $50 donations and a lot of $20s.” The Encounter Youth Group raised $1,530 for the Hogan family. Donors were asked to make checks out to Lorna Hogan, the mother who lost two daughters in Friday’s fire. Hogan, who suffered burns and smoke inhalation trying to rescue her daughters, was released from Central Maine Medical Center on Sunday, according to a nursing supervisor.

Rick George of Lisbon Falls, his 6-year-old daughter Camryn, Mercedes McLean of Greenwood and Becca Paul of Pownal look at the flowers in front of the Hogan residence on Summer Street in Lisbon Falls on Sunday. George and members of the Encounter Youth Group that he leads were going door to door collecting donations for the Hogan family. The Encounter Youth Group is associated with the Freeport Seventh-Day Adventist Church.

Flowers and Minnie Mouse sit in the snow outside 34 Summer St. in Lisbon Falls on Sunday. Sisters Natalie Hogan, 11, and Kelsey Hogan, 6, died in the fire early Friday.

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