Susan Teer is haunted by the sound of her daughters screaming for her to save them.
“‘Mommy, mommy,’” yelled Cherelle Lucille Morehouse, 8, Teer recalled.
[media-credit id=183 align="alignleft" width="188"] Cherelle “Cher” Lucille Morehouse, 8
Photo courtesy of Susan Teer
But there was no way she could get to Cherelle or Skyann, her 3-year-old younger sister.
The little girls were in their bedroom crying.
The fire melted the metal walls and engulfed the trailer she shared with her daughters and boyfriend Dennis Engen, 55, in space 434 at Redwood Estates, 9595 North Pecos, in Thornton.
Teer suffered six broken ribs while escaping from the other side of the trailer but couldn’t get to her girls.
They breathed fire into their lungs and went silent.
It was in the early morning hours of Dec. 16, 1984, nine days from Christmas. Both her daughters died.