TWIN FALLS, ID – Neighbors say that while her two sons died inside a burning trailer, Heather Green tried comforting them from outside.
On Monday night, Heather Green stepped outside of the trailer she lived in with her three young children at the High Desert RV Park. While outside of the trailer having a smoke, she played a game with one of her sons.
He would push the trailer door toward her from inside the trailer, and she would push it back. On one of these push backs, the trailer door shut and was locked from the inside. Not long after, Green saw that the trailer was on fire.
Green tried to get her 4-year-old daughter to unlock the door, but she was unable to do so. Green started screaming for help and neighbors rushed over in an attempt to break into the trailer.
Unable to get in through the door, Gary Zimmers broke a window and started feeling around inside and was able to grab Green’s daughter and pull her out. “I still don’t know what I broke the window with,” he said. “It was dark, and I was groping around.”
While this was happening, Green was reaching through another window trying to grab her two sons, 1-year-old Damion Green and 4-year-old Kayden Green. She was unable to reach them but according to a neighbor, she talked to them until they stopped making noise.
“Heather was at the other window. She almost cut her finger off. Her poor hands were burned,” the neighbor said. “She was standing by the window with her hand in there, telling them that she loved them. She made sure they heard it until she heard no more from them.”
Firefighters arrived to put out the flames and would remove the two boys from the trailer. They were pronounced dead at St. Luke’s Magic Valley Medical Center.
Fire officials would later confirm that a space heater in the camper caused the fire, and also confirmed that the trailer door had locked from the inside. Detectives say their investigation could take days as they interview witnesses and Green.
Officials say the children’s father, an inmate in the Twin Falls County Jail, has been notified and accommodations were being made for him.
Gina Johnson manages Creekside Court RV Park and said they are providing Green and her daughter housing for the next few months. “I’ve known her for five years, and this woman would die for her children. She loved her babies,” Johnson said.
The American Red Cross has also stepped in to help the family with food and clothing, while the TEARS foundation is helping with funeral expenses. If you would like to help out the family, an account has been set up at Farmers National Bank under the name “Gina Johnson, care of Heather Green.”
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