Fire officials say an elderly Missouri couple died when a man refused to leave his wife as their home burned around them.
November 11, 2022 / 4:59 PMAn elderly Missouri couple died in a fire when a man refused to leave his wife as their home burned and the floor that was their escape route collapsed, fire officials said.
Kenneth Zerr called emergency dispatchers to report the fire, opened a door for firefighters to enter and then went back to his wife, who used a wheelchair and had fallen on the floor of the bathroom in their master bedroom. He stuffed towels under the door in a futile attempt to keep out the smoke, Casey said.
"The dispatch was on the phone with my father and my father was trying to help my mother out of the house and they got trapped," their son, Andy Zerr, told KSDK-TV."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."
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