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Harvison, 26, had not slept since 1am. He was exhausted, and yet sleep would not come.
“I am very tired and have not slept since 1am, but every time I close my eyes, I can still hear his voice screaming for help. It is truly sad,” he told NST.
What woke him up
It started before 2.31am on April 30, when a fire broke out in Taman Ehsan, Kepong, Kuala Lumpur and tore through five terrace houses.
Harvison woke to his neighbours shouting. His first thought was that his own home was on fire. He ran outside and saw it was the house behind his that was burning.
He went back inside, exited through his back door, and tried to get into his neighbours’ house through the kitchen. The fire had already reached the back of the house and was too big for him to get through.
The 53-year-old man trapped inside
Inside that house was a 53-year-old man who had been paralysed for around 30 years following a car accident. His elderly parents, both in their eighties, had been caring for him since.
At the time the fire broke out, he was resting in his room while his parents were at the back of the house.
When the mother saw the flames reaching her son’s bedroom, she sat down in the backyard and began wailing, refusing to move. A female neighbour told Guangming Daily that she kept saying her son was still inside, but the fire had grown so dangerous that the neighbours had no choice but to carry her away from the scene.
Harvison managed to pull the elderly couple to safety. He and several other neighbours then tried to reach the son in his bedroom.
The fire was too intense. The Selangor Fire and Rescue Department received the distress call at 2.31am and arrived at the scene at 2.50am, but by then it was too late. The man did not survive.
The middle unit of the row was destroyed completely. The two units beside it suffered 80 percent and 20 percent damage respectively.
A family he has known his whole life
Harvison said he was not close to the man who died, but had been told he had been paralysed since his twenties. The parents, however, were a different story.
“I know the elderly couple very well. My siblings and I have known them since childhood as they bought the house at the same time as my father,” he said.
The elderly couple, who have two sons and one daughter, are currently staying at Harvison’s family’s home while their relatives search for suitable accommodation.
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