An elderly Missouri man died with his wife in a house fire Thursday after he refused to leave the building without her.
An elderly Missouri man died with his wife in a house fire Thursday after he refused to escape to safety without her.
Dispatchers told Kenneth Zerr to flee his New Melle home that was quickly becoming consumed by flames, but he opted to stay inside to find his wife, Phyllis, the“The dispatch told my father to come out of the house and my father said, ‘I’m not leaving my wife’ and stayed with her. Until the end,” Andy Zerr said as he fought back tears.New Melle Fire Chief Dan Casey
told CBS. When Kenneth couldn’t help her up, he stuffed towels under the door in an attempt to keep out the smoke. Fire officials had entered the Tall Cedar Court home to rescue the couple, both 84, and made it into the back bedroom, but were blocked from the couple by the rapidly growing inferno,The floor began collapsing and conditions deteriorated, forcing firefighters to flee the building, officials said. They re-started the rescue, battling high heat and zero visibility, and were finally able to reach the Zerrs, but by that time it had been too late.
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