He simply refused to leave her side. 'I’m not leaving my wife.'
An elderly couple tragically died after they became trapped in the master bedroom bathroom during a house fire.
Kenneth called 911 dispatchers and opened a door to allow firefighters to enter. He was about to grab his wife, who used a wheelchair, but she had fallen in the bathroom of the master bedroom,to New Melle Fire Chief Dan Casey via CBS News. They then became trapped after the floor started to collapse.
“The dispatch was on the phone with my father and my father was trying to help my mother out of the house and they got trapped,” Andy Zerr said. “The dispatch told my father to come out of the house and my father said, ‘I’m not leaving my wife,’ and stayed with her until the end.”
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