Dad gets a call at work, telling you to race at home. He sees a burst of smoke first, then the body of his little son

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• June 2

• “If you had to take your heart out and put it in the ground and bury your heart, it’s probably a good way to describe,” says boys’ father Cully McCleer

• Here it opens about that day and what came about

Last month after the funeral, two young sons and fiancées, Father Cully McCleer, took the shovel and helped to fill their graves himself.

“We’re buried in our own,” says 35-year-old mechanic in Luisville, Mise, says McCleer, it didn’t make it easier.

Imagine he says, “If you had to take your heart and put it in the ground and bury your heart, it’s probably a good way to describe it.”

McCleer boys, 11-year-old Kayden and 8-year-old August, who he shared with Victoria Coffee, were killed in a fire in Luisville in early June with their grandfather Michael Coffey, 65.

A few weeks later, McCleer still does not find the words describing the love his sons had to each other. He says that more than their interest in video games and music, Kayden and August have touched the lives of those around them.

“They crushed like all brothers,” he says. “But after all, there was always someone’s shoulder to sleep in the car. It was always hugged, always a photo was always done.”

June 2 In the morning, McCleer worked at work, and 33 -year -old photographer Victoria and their 4 -year -old daughter Nova visited Victoria’s sister. At about 10 o’clock, McCleer received a phone call that Michael’s home, where the family lived, was burning and needed to get there right away.

“It really didn’t become real before I didn’t help a little closer and I could see a burst,” he recalls.

McCleer arrived at the scene before the first respondents. It is reported that neighbors and outsiders were reportedly trying to get home to help. He says he kicked the front door and was looking for his son and Victoria’s dad.

After “about 10 seconds, I came back when I felt the couch and a chair. I couldn’t see anything, I couldn’t breathe,” he says. Firefighters will not allow him to return.

When the fire was raging hotter and hotter – and when McCleer began to taste home, hoping that someone would answer, the emergency staff pulled Kayden from the bedroom window and started CPR. McCleer and his fiancé followed their son by ambulance to the hospital.

McCleer says officials later found that Blaze was an electric fire that began at the end of the house.

“I didn’t finish watching the house burning,” he says. “By the time I left, he was completely inspired.”

Although Kayden began breathing again after hospitals, he eventually died of smoke inhalation. His little brother and their grandfather were both declared dead at the scene.

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Now the family is grieving. And remembers.

Kayden, who was supposed to autism, loved music and anatomy, as well as video games.

“Although he was 11, he was as innocent as any newborn,” says his dad. “He did not know the hatred. He knew nothing but love. He would have easily surpassed the saint and because of his condition he was so special. I was pleased to see where his life would go after all the difficulties at the very beginning.”

August – which everyone called Gusu – “I was very reminded of me when I was a little boy,” says McCleer. “I loved being outdoors, loved camping, loved fishing, beloved animals.”

“He never chose to want to work with things, but he chose his dad’s passion for music … Gus has made a close relationship with many close friends of my close friends,” McCleer adds.

On the outside, he calls Michael a solid guy, but from the inside a teddy bear.

“He was riding motorcycles and driving trucks for life,” says McCleer. “He just retired. He was a loving grandfather, man. He was there for the children.”

“In the mornings,” says McCleer, “I’m going to work – Mike would have risen and we would leave the boys with us. Mike was completely capable of helping boys, and boys helped him honestly … say, putting on shoes or the like.”

McCleer, Coffee and their daughter Nova were transferred to fire, living in Victoria’s sister’s home.

On their behalf, the Gofundme was established, which has so far collected more than $ 24,000.

“All the positive reinforcement of the community has undoubtedly helped me to do it more than I would ever imagine,” says McCleer, adding, “Just a lot of people who want to give anything – I mean baby toys – it would help to make it any burden.”

“I can’t express how grateful I am in words,” he says.

He says the family copes with the best way.

Their daughter, now their only child, understands, in a sense, what happened.

“Bless her heart. I don’t know if she knew what she was doing but she threw dirt on her bubbles [at the burial]- says McCleer. – She helped us. I felt that a crime would have been a part of it to prevent her from being part of it. ”

If there is something that society could learn from this tragedy, he says it takes time to hug or kiss a loved one.

“I don’t want it to happen to anyone else,” says McCleer. “I don’t want any pain, not even my worst enemy. Just make every moment count. Every moment.”

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