Twin girls killed in upstate NY storm after tree crushes home, as neighbors recall devastated mother crying for help

Two young twin girls in Upstate New York were killed when winds from a severe storm knocked a tree over into their home — as neighbors heard horrifying screams their mother let out while they were lost in the debris.Emily and Kenni Bisson, 6, were sound asleep in their beds at around 4 a.m.Sunday when ferocious 95 mph winds and heavy rain from an EF-1 tornado caused a massive maple tree to knock over and slam into the roof of their Clark Mills home, WSYR-TV reported.The force of the falling tree was enough to crash through the roof of the home, then drive through the second story before hitting the first floor, where the twins and their mother, Kayleigh Bisson, 37, were sleeping, the Oneida County Sheriff’s Office confirmed.Their neighbor, Jared Bowman, told Syracuse.com he rushed over to the home when he was alerted by the noise and saw Bisson trying to escape through a window.Another neighbor and member of the Clark Mills Fire Department, Rick Carollo, said the crashing of the tree jolted him out of his sleep.

Moments later, his phone went off with a message saying the home next door to him needed immediate help.“I found the mother in the front window,” he said.“I had to climb a tree to get her out.”Bowman said the mother of two went into a panic when she realized her twin girls were still trapped inside.“She was yelling, ‘Get my kids out!’” Bowman told the outlet.

“But there was no noise.It felt very eerie and bad.”Carollo said he went searching for the girls through the debris, finding one of them.However, he said he quickly discovered the 6-year-old had no pulse.When first responders arrived, they were able to locate both twins and pronounced them dead at the scene.The mother and her twins had only been living at the home for a few months before they were killed, according to the outlet.Emily and Kenni were first-graders at Clinton Elementary School.“Earlier today, a severe weather emergency in our community resulted in the tragic...