Mother of 3 girls killed in Conn. fire speaks
KAREN MATTHEWSKAREN MATTHEWS, Associated Press?
?Firefighters are seen on the roof of a house where an early morning fire left five people dead Sunday, Dec. 25, 2011, in Stamford, Conn. Officials said the fire, which was reported shortly before 5 a.m., killed two adults and three children. Two others escaped. Their names have not been released. (AP Photo/Tina FIneberg)
Firefighters are seen on the roof of a house where an early morning fire left five people dead Sunday, Dec. 25, 2011, in Stamford, Conn. Officials said the fire, which was reported shortly before 5 a.m., killed two adults and three children. Two others escaped. Their names have not been released. (AP Photo/Tina FIneberg)
Matthew Badger, left, and Madonna Badger, the parents of three children that were killed in a fire, react as one of the caskets is carried into a church during the funeral in New York, Thursday, Jan. 5, 2012. Hundreds of people streamed into a historic church in the heart of Manhattan on Thursday for the funeral of three young girls who died along with their grandparents during a Christmas morning fire in Stamford, Conn. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)
Matthew Badger, left, and Madonna Badger, the parents of three children that were killed in a fire, react as their caskets are carried into a church during the funeral in New York, Thursday, Jan. 5, 2012. Hundreds of people streamed into a historic church in the heart of Manhattan on Thursday for the funeral of three young girls who died along with their grandparents during a Christmas morning fire in Stamford, Conn. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)
The casket of one of the young girls that was killed in a Christmas day fire is brought into the church during a funeral in New York, Thursday, Jan. 5, 2012. Hundreds of people streamed into the historic church in the heart of Manhattan on Thursday for the funeral of three young girls who died along with their grandparents during a Christmas morning fire in Stamford, Conn. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)
Matthew Badger, left, and Madonna Badger, the parents of three children that were killed in a fire, react as one of the caskets is carried into a church during the funeral in New York, Thursday, Jan. 5, 2012. Hundreds of people streamed into a historic church in the heart of Manhattan on Thursday for the funeral of three young girls who died along with their grandparents during a Christmas morning fire in Stamford, Conn. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)
NEW YORK (AP) ? The mother of three young girls who died during a Christmas morning fire along with their grandparents told mourners that the girls live in her heart now.
Madonna Badger's voice broke Thursday as she spoke at their funeral: "My girls are in my heart. They're right here. And that's where they live now."
Badger wailed as she followed the three coffins out of the church. She was accompanied by her estranged husband, Matthew Badger.
The pallbearers were 18 firefighters from Stamford, Conn., who responded to the fire. Among the more than 500 people attending the service in New York City were fashion designers Calvin Klein and Vera Wang, rocker Lou Reed and actor Philip Seymour Hoffman.
Madonna Badger, is a fashion advertising executive who worked on Calvin Klein campaigns.
Authorities say embers in a bag of discarded fireplace ashes started the deadly blaze. Badger's parents were also killed.
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