When I got to the top of the stairs and turned toward the corner of the banister....
Well, turning down the hallway You can see the master bedroom door
Fire
The only fire I remember seeing, is at the base of the door, still shut, flame in front of the door, and right hand side of the door frame
But I have to say the second I got to the top of the stairs, I was completely focused on that. I ran to the bedroom door.
I was still running, I threw it open and took a couple of steps into the bedroom
That's when I saw V
She was laying on her side of the bed, but not over to the edge. More in the middle. She was laying flat on her back
I went over to where she was
Flames between me and the bed
That's hard for me to say (flames), it's what LE calls tunnel vision, you actually have narrow vision. When I came through this door, I was looking at V, I was looking at her face, but I can say there were flames between V and I - flames were in that vision. Like looking down a paper towel roll. In that vision, there was flame. If you ask me how tall the flames were, I couldn't say. But it would make them 3-3.5 tall, but if it's the bed, it could be 1 foot.
I ran right over to the head of the bed. I reached over with my left hand and I grabbed V's right shoulder area, basically her shirt, and I think, with my right hand (with cell phone in it). I reached under her right side -- her abdomen area. She wasn't on the edge of the bed.
When I ran to reach for her, she was still on her back.
I started to pull her up.
Well, I started to pull her up, and immediately, I think, the first thing I noticed was no resistance at all. She seemed to double over at the waist, and her head was flopped back. I yanked her up, and that was the first time I saw the blood.
It was coming out of the left corner of her mouth.
Almost right after I saw the blood is when I saw the blood on the bed, the pool of blood.
I noticed the blood on her mouth, the blood on the bed, then everything sorta hit me - everything that was going on in this situation.
I still remember it as clearly as that night. A voice in my head say DEAD. Then all of a sudden it just hit me, I just ran past fire, boys, V dead.
From the time I heard the noise downstairs, until the time I realized everything it couldn't have been more than 8 seconds.