Heartbroken father who ran through housefire to save sons gives emotional interview
Heartbroken father Nathan Perry who ran through a housefire to save his sons has given an emotional interview about the moment that will haunt him forever after one of his boys tragically succumbed to his injuries.
Mr Perry was asleep when he woke to find his home full of smoke on Tuesday, and when he noticed a flicker of light coming from his son’s bedroom he rushed down the hall.
“I knew it was a fire straight away… I guess I made a mistake by opening the door and letting the air in and that’s when (the fire) went berserk,” he told Nine News.
Mr Perry’s sons, Jeremy and Blade, sustained serious burns to 90 per cent of their bodies before they were taken to the Lady Cilento Children’s Hospital in serious condition.
Blade’s life support was switched off on Wednesday and he passed shortly after.
“I ran through the flames and grabbed the children out, did what I could, feel like I failed with Blade because he didn’t make it,” he continued.
“I’m heart broken, my two beautiful little boys… and my world’s never going to be the same again.”
He added: “It will haunt me forever.”
The boys’ mother Tamika Frid said her world would “never be the same.”
“I never ever experienced anything so bad in my life till the day we had to turn the life support off on our son, the worst day,” she said.
“I just wish everything was just a dream and you could just wake up everything can be just better again.”
“He’s going to get through this, his brother’s right next to him … telling him you can do this, you do this,” she said.
“Our bright little boy from the bush.”
Our thoughts are with the family as they struggle through this.
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