4 year old boy killed in a fire in my community yesterday :(

[ScoobMaster]

Driving Home from work yesterday, I heard a news flash on local radio about a fatal fire near my home - a 4-year old boy was killed As the father of a 3 year-old, this hit me hard......Reading the press story, This text REALLY got me:

"His mother was outside screaming," said Taylor, who lives behind the fatal fire site. "(Nicholas) was screaming; I never heard anything like it in my life. He screamed for about 4 minutes."

Damn!

Link to Full Story article

My heart goes out to this family.

 

[Actaeon]

, so sad. The family must be devastated.

 

[Zysoclaplem]

That is terrible.

 

[vood0g]

wow, i have a four year old myself. i dont even know what i would even do to myself if that happened to my family.

 

[AmigaMan]

 

[Kelemvor]

We've had a lot of those around here lately too. They almost all come down to no smoke alarms or no batteries in the smoke alarms. How dumb can people be. What's a 9volt battery cost? $3? You change them twice a year at daylight savings time? $6/yr to save your familes life in case of a fire? Sounds good to me.

 

[dabuddha]

 

[arcenite]

 

[imported_Reck]

he died of smoke inhalation...hopefully he was dead before the flames reached him.

 

[ScoobMaster]

Originally posted by: Reck
he died of smoke inhalation...hopefully he was dead before the flames reached him.

Yeah -

For some reason I just can't shake the mental image of that poor scared little kid alone in his smoke-filled room scared out of his witts! Life sucks sometimes!