The sudden fire claimed the lives of all her children aged 2 to 9-years-old. A St. Louis, Illinois mother lived her worst nightmare on Friday when she lost all five of her children in a house fire.
Sabrina Dunigan, a 34-year-old single mother, was driving someone to work early in the morning on Friday, according to authorities, and when she returned to her home, the apartment was in a blaze and her five children were still inside.
The mother went in fight mode, desperately trying to re-enter the building and save her children to no avail.
The St. Clair County Coroner identified the victims of the fire as 2-year-old Loyal Dunigan, 4-year-old Jabari Johnson, 7-year-old twins Heaven and Nevaeh Dunigan and 9-year-old Deontay Dunigan.
The children’s maternal grandparents – Greg Dunigan and his wife, Vanicia Mosley – had been sleeping in a sectioned-off room away from the kids, the grandfather told the Post-Dispatch.
Greg Dunigan told the paper he tried to get to the children but the flames were too strong.
He and his wife, who is blind, jumped out a back window to safety.
Family members told KSDK News that the tragedy took place on Dunigan’s birthday.
‘It’s hard. It’s just so hard,’ Sabrina’s aunt Sheila Dunigan said.
‘Our family has never taken a hit like this, ever. We are devastated. We are broken,’ she told KSDK.
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