TONY Guerra had just smashed through the windows of his burning house and delivered his wife to safety when he made the most awful realisation. His young daughter Brittany was still trapped inside.
The 43-year-old builder burst back into the blazing house in a brave but doomed bid to save his 10-year-old daughter, who had an intellectual disability. She died in the fire, and while Mr Guerra made it back out to the front garden he suffered a fatal heart attack there.
Brittany's mother, Kylie Guerra, 38, survived the blaze in Melbourne Road, Sorrento, early yesterday and was taken to Frankston Hospital suffering shock and smoke inhalation. Last night she was reunited with the couple's other, younger daughter, who had been staying with her grandmother
Read more: http://www.theage.com.au/victoria/father-dies-in-doomed-rescue-bid-20110619-1ga7l.html#ixzz1PlNn0mUO
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