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Mother Recounts Saving Children From Fire
posted (October 7, 2016)

And their mother Melissa Hamilton is the one who will have to see them through that lifetime of post-burn care. She has that to deal with going forward but she also has to live with that trauma of Tuesday night when she had to snatch her children from the fire and throw them off the veranda.  She also has burn wounds from that night, and tonight she tells us what she had to do to get them out of the house:..

Melissa Hamilton - Mother of Burnt Children
"All I remember when we run inna di house through the front door and start to throw in the gas on all of us and I ask ey whe you di do but he no ansa you know. So all I could ah mi think first di da dash out my lee 2 year old, my son Jeremiah done mi already grab my son Ian but a nail juke him in his toe so he had to let go. So I shove down Ian off the varanda and I grab Empress from the step and I da so I manage but he mussi say no you think you will get way I will make sure that you have scars too. See it ya, he make sure he give me something, all my face he wanted."

"The fire was on them so we took big old clothes and try to out it off them so they wouldn't get anymore and immediately a friend saw everything and he got his vehicle and tell me put them in I'll take them we cannot wait on the police and the ambulance."

Daniel Ortiz
"Ma'am that must have been a horrific scene to see your two kids on fire like that."

Melissa Hamilton - Mother of Burnt Children
"My daughter was asking me mom can you please give me some water to drink, I'm thirsty, I'm thirsty. My son Ian was telling me mommy my skin the burn! Ih the burn me. So I just tell they hold on the doctor will take care of it right now and they bare and they did everything the doctor tell they fi do and they get through it. First thing that gone through my mind I think they mi wa died right there, I think they never mi wa make it but when I get inna the car two ah deh I asked them who me and they they say you da we ma, they tell me no worry I no the go nowhere, I will stay right here with you, they talk to me good, they even walked in the hospital. So I know that they strong and I know that da god di help they through this."

Their air ambulance – which cost thirty two thousand US dollars – was scheduled to land in Galveston at 6:40 pm – which is 5:40 Belize time. 

As we told you this is sponsored by the Burn Victims Mercy Fund, which is completely depleted and running on Yvette Burks personal credit right now.  If you’d like to contribute, the Belize Bank Account number is 69501152111.

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