Mother-Of-Four Fled Burning Trailer Without Her Kids Who Screamed As They Died

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Jessica Mann, 30, a mother of four young kids who passed away in an Indiana mobile home fled the burning place without her kids. The woman then asked another adult living there if the kids were with him.

It is reported that Mann was asleep in her bedroom at the Fort Wayne site when the fire broke out on Thursday morning, She was able to escape after pushing the air conditioner out.

Her four children, aged 2, 3, 5, and 10, were all asleep in a front bedroom and died screaming, according to Travis Garrison, 18, who heard their anguished final moments. 

Garrison along with two other people, his sister Audrey Kistler, 24; her boyfriend, Samuel Barnett, 17 - were asleep in a third bedroom.

Garrison woke up to a thick blaze and made an attempt to escape through the front door. But the deadlock was not working. 

He escaped from the backdoor while his sister and boyfriend escaped through the window.

When everyone was outside, Mann ran to Garrison to enquire about her kids. 

'She ran over to me and the other three, or the other two, and asked if her kids were okay and I told her they were still in there,' Garrison told Fox 55.

Garrison told that Mann then stood on top of his truck to rescue her children but the fire at this time of thick enough to engulf everything.

'I was running to the front door to try and break it open and it wouldn't open,' Garrison said. 

'I kept hearing the kids screaming. Screaming and I couldn't do anything about it.

'We tried our best to get the kids out. We did everything we could.'

Other neighbors talking to Fox 55 shared their shock at how all the adults could escape leaving the kids behind to die in a fire, but Garrison insisted they did everything they could to save them.

'We all were trying to get back in there,' said Garrison.

'We couldn't get into the house. The fire was too high. The smoke was too thick. 

'We could not get back into that house.'

Neighbors informed 911, and some joined the rescue efforts.

Shelby Wright, who lives across the street, said she went outside after hearing an explosion.

'There was too much smoke,' Wright said. 'I couldn't even breathe, couldn't see.'

A second explosion made the situation worse, she added.

'I heard the kids back there crying for help and heard the dog whining,' Wright said, adding that she slashed her hands trying to help free the children.

'I ran over there and started busting in windows, trying to help get them out. 

'Trying to get some of that smoke out,' Wright said.

'You can't just watch someone's house burn and their kids inside and not even be tempted to just jump up and help.

'I mean, like, I couldn't sit here and just watch it.'

Garrison said he had heard a propane tank making a whistling noise before the fire got worse.

According to statements from the fire and sheriff's departments, when the Fort Wayne Fire Department arrived at 8:33am, the fire spread throughout the mobile home.

Firefighters managed to control the blaze and entered the home at 8:56 a.m and recovered the children's bodies, a fire department news release said.