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The house of Ed and Melody Bledsoe is destroyed, with an open gas line that sends flames into the shell of a metal swing where his great-grandchildren were playing a few days ago .
Shasta County sheriff's deputies revealed that Melody, 70, and her two children, James Roberts, age 4, and Emily Roberts, age 5, had been missing since the Carr fire on Thursday night [19659002] The sheriff of Shasta County, Tom Bosenko, said Saturday morning that he had no new details about the trio disappeared and that it was too dangerous for the deputies. investigate the neighborhood.
a meeting with sheriff's representatives said that they had been told that all three were dead.
"They are dead", a parent sent a text message from the meeting to others who were waiting in front of the sheriff's office
My children have died, that's all I can say Said the mother of the children, Sherry Bledsoe, leaving the sheriff's office
. Melody's husband, Ed Bledsoe, was crying while telling that he was trying to get back home.
He had left the three behind at home for a run on Thursday, and when he learned about the fire, he ran back when he spoke to the children on the phone, he said: " Almighty God, I do not know what I did wrong, "he said," I talked to them until the fire hit them. "
" I was trying to reach them, I was trying to go to the fire.There was a guy in the fire, so I pulled him out. "
But Bledsoe could not pbad his home.
"The fire was just …", he says. "I wanted to die there, I wanted to go."
Family members wondered Saturday whether the three had been warned of the imminent fire before it was too late. Her granddaughter, Shelly Hoskinson, stated that the family only had one flip phone and that she was not a techie, and stated that she believed that she was not a techie. no evacuation order had ever come.
Donald Kewley said that he lives two miles from home and that the flames were approaching. others who tried to arrive at the house were turned away because the fire was too intense.
"We watched this whole area explode," Kewley said Saturday in front of the ruins of the house.
A parent ran to enter the neighborhood, but "there are flames 15 feet tall, he could not overtake them and it was too late," said Kewley . ] MISSING-FAMILY.jpg "title =" MISSING-FAMILY.jpg "/>
Two children and their great-grandmother have been missing since Thursday night at the Carr Fire in Redding, according to family members. They are, from left to right, Emily Roberts, 5 years old; Melody Bledsoe, 70 years old; and James Roberts, 4.
Photos courtesy of Donald Kewley
