Blue Mountains fire: Myla and River identified as two children killed in tragic Bowen Mountain house inferno

The two children who perished in a devastating house fire near the Blue Mountains have been named as the family and community reel from their deaths.

Siblings Myla Summer-Lea Hughes, 10, and River William Higgins, three, were killed when a blaze ripped through their two-storey Bowen Mountain home early Monday morning.

Emergency services arrived at the scene on Lieutenant Bowen Road at 2.10am on Monday to find the property up in flames.

The sibling’s father and four other children managed to escape the burning property but the bodies’ of little Myla and River were discovered by police.

One was found upstairs and the other downstairs, NSW Police Superintendent Nadine Roberts said.

A GoFundMe campaign has been set up with the support of the children’s family, paying tribute to the “deeply loved” siblings in wake of the “unimaginable tragedy”.

The tragedy has rocked the local community, with friends and neighbours placing flowers and messages outside the gutted home to pay tribute to the youngsters.

Heartbreaking details later emerged that the family was due to move interstate to Queensland the day the fatal fire erupted. The mother of the children was already on her way when the tragedy hit.

Firefighters spent two hours tackling the blaze overnight and NSW Rural Fire Service Commissioner Trent Curtin said they were unable to get inside the home.

“Firefighters’ dynamic risk assessment would have shown them that it would be too dangerous to go inside the home while it was collapsing,” he said.

“This is a two-storey home, and so it would have been very, very dangerous for firefighters to access the home in the early stages with the home fully engulfed in flames.”

The father and four children were taken to Nepean Hospital in Penrith and treated for minor burns and smoke inhalation before later being released.

Authorities are continuing to investigate the cause of the fire.