Incredible details emerge after woman rushed into inferno to try to save her sister, arsonist charged with double murder

A firebug with a previous conviction for arson is now facing double murder charges for allegedly burning two elderly sisters to death in their Hollywood home — after one of the women braved the raging fire to try to save her sibling.

Serial arsonist Jovan Duverne, 39, on Feb 4. around 2 a.m., set fire to the Vista Del Mar Ave. home of Maria “Chelo” Vazquez and Yolanda “Yola” Honda, prosecutors charge.

Horrified neighbors saw Vazquez, 76, briefly leave the burning house before rushing back inside after telling a neighbor that she needed to save Honda, 82, according to a GoFundMe launched by the sisters’ family.

“I need to go back and get my sister,” were the last words anyone heard Vazquez say, according to the family’s fundraiser.

Honda died at the scene. Her sister, Vazquez, was transported to Hollywood Presbyterian Hospital, where she later died.

It took 40 firefighters almost twenty minutes to extinguish the deadly housefire just one block from the Hollywood Walk of Fame

Honda at the time of the blaze was recovering from an emergency hip surgery and her sister had moved in to take care of her, “ensuring Chelo was safe, fed, and loved every single day,” according to the family’s GoFundMe.

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The family never found Coco, the sister’s beloved dog who went missing in the fire.  

Prosecutors say Duverne used a handheld torch-style lighter to set ten fires in Hollywood between Jan. 26 and Feb. 4. He burned bus benches, loose rubbish, garbage cans and a garbage pile in a homeless encampment, prosecutors say.

The twisted firestarter is charged with two counts of murder and 11 counts of felony arson. He is being held at the Twin Towers Correctional Facility without bail and is due back in court April 8 for his arraignment when he is expected to enter a plea.

District Attorney Nathan Hochman said Duverne went on a dangerous spree, recklessly lighting fires across Hollywood.

“Setting fires anywhere is reckless and extraordinarily dangerous, but deliberately igniting multiple fires in a residential community shows a shocking disregard for human life,” said Hochman.

Cops picked Durverne up just hours after he allegedly set fire to the sisters’ home, and just blocks away from the fatal blaze.

Duverne has at least six previous felony convictions dating more than a decade, according to court records.

He was convicted four times on charges of felony vandalism, once for resisting an officer, and on on a felony charge of arson, back in 2015.

If convicted, Duverne faces up to death or life in state prison without the possibility of parole.