A HERO gran who saved her granddaughter from a burning caravan that killed her husband and son has spoken of how she relives the little girl’s cries “every day and night”.
Speaking for the first time since the blaze exclusively to Wales on Sunday, Denise Taylor, 50, says she can still hear the cries of two-year-old Emmy after she plucked her from the caravan.
Her son Andrew, 26, and husband Robert, 58, died in the blaze at the Sunnysands park in Talybont, near Barmouth, while Emmy remains seriously ill at Alder Hey Children’s Hospital, in Liverpool.
Denise, from Flint, in North Wales, said: “I just relive it every night – every day. It’s just something that I’ve got to try to get over.”
Paramedic Denise reached into the smoke-filled caravan and pulled the toddler to safety through a window with the help of two passers-by.
Though left with burns to her arms following the rescue, the gran insists she’s not a hero.
“It didn’t seem brave to me at the time.
“It’s just something I knew I had to do and I just did it.”
The gran said she didn’t feel any pain when she reached in to free little Emmy.
And it was not until she was later treated at Ysbyty Gwynedd, in Bangor, that her arms began to hurt.
She dashed clear of the caravan with Emmy in her arms seconds before it exploded after hearing someone cry “run” because of the gas cylinders.
Emmy’s parents Ian Taylor, 28, and Laura Lynford, 24, who also have a six-month old baby son Kian, have been maintaining a bedside vigil at the hospital since the blaze on June 11.
Denise, who was in bed when she heard shouts from Andrew alerting her to the fire, added: “(I’m reliving) the cries of her. She was crying after I pulled her out.
“It’s just hour by hour we’re getting through it. Spending time up in Alder Hey with my son is a great comfort to him and me. And I’m helping to look after the other little one they’ve got.”
She said “overwhelming” messages of support continue to flood in for the family.
Fresh messages are still being left on a Facebook page to add to the hundreds of tributes already paid to the men.
Poignant messages were left on the site last Sunday – Father’s Day.
Andrew, who has a twin sister Sarah, left a daughter Alexia, aged one, He had gone back into the caravan in an attempt to rescue his niece and dad.
It is thought both were overcome by thick smoke and fumes before the caravan exploded.
Denise added: “We’ve had over 200 cards and bouquets. Strangers have been sending cards to Alder Hey – people I’m not aware of knowing.
“But a lot of it has come from family, friends and neighbours because obviously they were two adorable men.”
Emmy has had lengthy skin graft operations after suffering 65% burns to the right side of her body in the fire.
Last week Denise’s other son Lee, 31, said medics have told scaffolder Ian and dental nurse Laura their daughter’s fight for life is “going to be a long road”.
He has said he believes the blaze was caused by a fan heater in the awning that somehow caught fire.
A service for Robert and loft insulator Andrew will be held at 12.30pm on Tuesday, in the parish church on Flint high street, followed by cremation in Blacon, Chester. Family are asking all those who go to wear football shirts – both men were keen fans of the game – Robert, Liverpool, and Andrew, Manchester United.
North Wales Fire Service say the cause of the blaze is still under investigation.
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