A heroic mother and her 1-year-old son who pulled her two older children from the flames were killed in a violent house fire in Houston on Saturday.
Giovanna Cabrera, 31, quickly led her 9-year-old son and 6-year-old daughter out of the flames and rushed back to rescue her 1-year-old daughter. This was announced by the Houston Fire Department.
However, firefighters found the mother and baby dead inside.
“She held him in her arms like a baby, so you know, she tried. If she could have… she would have made it,” said her sister Gisele. Bueno said. he told KTRK.
“It still feels unreal. It feels like she’s somewhere else,” says the sad sister. told the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea. “Looks like we’re going to see her later. This feels like just a house fire. No, nothing happened to her sister or the baby.”
The surrounding community rallied to help her two surviving children. An online fundraiser raised more than $24,000 for her, which will go toward clothes and other necessities for her children, as well as funeral expenses.
“It’s really nice to see how important she was and how everyone saw her for who she was, because she was a hero,” Bueno told KTRK. .
The cause of the deadly fire is unknown, but Houston firefighters will be roaming neighborhoods Tuesday distributing safety tips and talking to residents about working smoke alarms, home evacuation plans and fire prevention. .
