Heartbreaking audio has emerged of a mum’s frantic screams for her little boy trapped inside their burning home and the moment she realises he’s gone.
Max Chirila, 6, was unable to escape the blaze that engulfed his family’s home in Clayfield in Brisbane‘s north in the early hours of Monday morning
His life was tragically cut short two weeks shy of his seventh birthday.
His parents and little brother managed to escape in time as neighbours woke to the sound of ‘deafening screams’.
Chilling footage of the flames ripping through the home captured the desperate cries of Max’s mum Karen after she realised he was still trapped in his bedroom at the back of the home.
‘No! No!’ she’s heard screaming.
‘He’s gone! He’s gone! He’s gone!’
Her shattered husband was also seen at the scene in a wheelchair being comforted by firefighters and friends before breaking down in tears.
He had managed to escape the blaze on a broken leg suffered in a recent scooter accident.