Sad Sad Sad: Minneapolis Father Had To Choose Which 2 of 7 children to save After Family Home Caught Fire.

When people ask each other jokingly 'if you are faced with a situation where you have to save this family member over that, what will you do'. This is what happened to a Minnesota father who had to choose which two of his seven children to save when a fire broke out in his duplex on Friday night.
Tragically, 60-year-old widower Troy Lewis was only able to save two of his children, 9-year-old Shaca and 5-year-old Electra. His other 5 children who died in the blaze ranged in ages from 8 years to just 19 months. The children had already lost their mother to cancer in November.

Lewis cried from his hospital bed, describing the choice no parent wants to make. 'I wanted to get all of my babies'. 'All of my babies. I wanted all my babies.' 
From his hospital bed Saturday, the father who survived the Friday morning fire that killed five of his seven children wept that he could not save them all from the flames.

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The Minneapolis Fire Department continued to investigate the cause of the blaze at 2818 Colfax Ave. N., one of the deadliest in the city’s history, but disclosed no new information Saturday about how it started and spread. Lewis remained in satisfactory condition at Hennepin County Medical Center, the same hospital where his surviving children, 9-year-old Shaca and 5-year-old Electra, were in ­serious condition.

The fire broke out around 4:30am on the top floor of the duplex. According to the building's landlord, Lewis and his children had been living there for the past six or eight months.  Lewis had to jump out of his second-story window to escape the blaze. He injured his back in the fall, but went right back into the house to save his children. First he grabbed Shaca who was gasping for air.
Then he went for 8-year-old Christopher, but found his son already dead. 'He was dead,' Lewis told the Star Tribune. 'I saw him burned. I saw my baby burn.' Two other children shared a bedroom with Christopher, 5-year-old Fannie and 3-year-old Troy, so Lewis moved on to look for the other kids knowing those two children didn't make it.