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Daren Dixon fled the burning home believing that his stepchildren, niece and wife pregnant with their unborn child, had managed to escape the flames.
But it was only when he crawled out of the house and began screaming for the women and children that he realised they were still trapped inside.
Dixon said he turned to go back into the inferno, but that was when the roof of the house collapsed.
Dixon suffered burns. He said it should have been him to die instead of the victims. The family lived on the top floor of a house at Bally Junction, Mc Bean, Couva.
The ground floor housed a business called SSM Enterprises. The building is owned by Ashmead Ali, who lives in Florida in the United States.
Seven people died in two house fires in Central Trinidad between Friday night and yesterday morning. Four of the dead are children.
At Mc Bean, Couva, just after midnight yesterday, the roof of the burning home collapsed upon 13-year-old Sarah Chinapoo, 10-year-old Chayim Chinapoo, 8-year-old Moses Chinapoo, 2 1/2-year-old Elijah Narine, 22-year-old Shantelle Dixon and 32-year-old Vanessa Chinapoo. They had huddled in the bathroom of the house, hoping for protection from the flames, and waiting to be rescued.
They were all killed. The bodies were found in a death embrace. Chinapoo was pregnant. Her baby was due in three weeks' time.
The only survivor of the horror was Chinapoo's husband, Darren Dixon.
He was step-father to three of the dead children. Dixon said he tried everything to save his family but failed. The burglar proofing that secured the front door and windows against thieves turned out to be a death trap for them, he said.
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