DUMONT, N.J. — Women from across Bergen County are turning out in droves to donate breast milk to the family of a Dumont woman who died last week while giving birth to twin girls. 
 
 Daily Voice received nearly 100 emails from the local moms looking to send the Roman family frozen bags of milk, after hearing that Julia Roman was planning on breast feeding her girls, Isabella and Grace -- as she did with 5-year-old Victoria. 
 
 Katie Belthoff of New Milford, Amanda Dilorio of Bergenfield, and Donna Ore of Wanaque are storing the milk in their freezers, but more volunteers are needed for storage until a freezer is secured for the Roman family to store the milk. 
 
 To donate breast milk or a deep freezer for the family, email kbelthoff@gmail.com or alclark318@outlook.com. (To drop breast milk donations in Wanaque, email donnadoula25@gmail.com.) 
 
 Julia Roman also had two older children, Dwayne, 19 and Valeria, 26. Dwayne is leaving for the Air Force in January and Valerie is graduating with a bachelors degree this semester. 
 
 To donate gift cards to Dwayne and Valerie, email clevine@dailyvoice.com or lauren.sontag@yahoo.com. 
 
 To place a food order for the family, email Brittany Poveromo of Brittany's Kitchen at brittanyskitchen08@gmail.com. 
 
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 The MTA’s first-ever woman elevator and escalator mechanic died last week while giving birth to twins, her grieving family and co-workers said Monday. 
 
 Julia Roman, 43, had 15 years on the job, had worked through most of her pregnancy. 
 
 Roman came to the US from the Dominican Republic at age 16 and went through a program with the group Nontraditional Employment for Women, an organization that helps woman find jobs in men-dominated industries. She joined the ranks of elevator and escalator mechanics back when there were no other women in the position, said her sister-in-law, Lucelenia Pimentel. 
 
 “That was a huge accomplishment for her, especially being from an immigrant family,” Pimentel said. 
 
 Even in 2017, Roman was still one of only two or three woman among the 225 elevator and escalator mechanics, transit officials said. 
 
 She was just one of a few women among the 225 mechanics who repaired the lifts and automatic stairs, said Transit Workers Union Local 100 officials. 
 
 “This is a terrible tragedy,” said John Chiarello, TWU Vice President of Maintenance of Way. “Julia was a pioneer in her field. She was one of just a handful of women in her job title. She was a good co-worker, a good union person and a former shop steward. She will be sorely missed.” 
 
 Roman died of an amniotic-fluid embolism, and doctors couldn’t save her life despite performing an emergency C-section, Pimentel said. 
 
 She leaves behind her husband Victor, 5-year-old daughter Victoria, and newborn daughters Isabella and Grace. A Go Fund Me campaign was started to help raise money for the family. 

 An MTA worker who made history as the agency’s first female escalator mechanic died while giving birth to twin girls, her family and co-workers said. 
 
 Julia Roman, 43, died Thursday of an amniotic fluid embolism after delivering twins Isabella and Grace, relatives said Monday. 
 
 “This is a terrible tragedy,” said John Chiarello, a Transport Workers Union Local 100 vice president. “Julia was a pioneer in her field. She was one of just a handful of women in her job title. She was a good co-worker, a good union person and a former shop steward. She will be sorely missed.” 
 
 Roman, a former Bronx resident who lived in Dumont, N.J., worked as an electro-mechanical maintainer for the past 15 years. 
 
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 “This family is going through an unimaginable ordeal and they need our help,” said Tony Utano, head of TWU Local 100. 
 
 Grieving sister-in-law Lucelenia Pimentel set up a GoFundMe page for Roman’s husband, Victor, the twins, and her 5-year-old daughter, Victoria. 
 
 “She was an amazing mom. Just like any expectant mother she was looking forward to the arrival of her twin daughters,” Pimentel wrote. “Jesus Christ had other plans, and now she is by his side.” 
 
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– Julia Roman came to the US from the Dominican Republic when she was 16, joined a program that helps women get jobs in male-dominated industries, and ended up making history: She was the first female elevator and escalator mechanic for New York's Metropolitan Transportation Authority. But the story of the woman a union vice president calls "a pioneer in her field" ended tragically Thursday when the 43-year-old died giving birth to twins, the New York Daily News reports. Roman suffered an amniotic fluid embolism and doctors performed an emergency C-section but couldn't save her, the New York Post reports. Roman had been on the job for 15 years and worked through much of her pregnancy. Her position "was a huge accomplishment for her, especially being from an immigrant family," says her sister-in-law. By 2017, there were still just one or two other females in the same position as Roman, per MTA officials. "She was one of just a handful of women in her job title," says the union VP. "She was a good co-worker, a good union person, and a former shop steward. She will be sorely missed." She leaves behind newborn twins Isabella and Grace, three other children ages 5, 19, and 26, and her husband. Local women are donating breast milk for the twins, whom Roman was planning to breastfeed, per the Bergenfield Daily Voice, and a GoFundMe campaign is raising money for the family.