the flames awaken ernest willis. >> i woke up in the early morning hours, i don't know, 4:00 or so. and the house was on fire. so i ran through the house trying to get to the back bedroom. i couldn't get there. so i run out the front door and around the side of the house and started breaking the windows and yelling for everybody to get out. >> his cousin, billy willis, makes a last-minute escape leaping out a bedroom window to safety. the two women are still trapped inside. it's too late to save them. >> the local fire departments responded. upon arriving at the scene, they found two subjects outside the residence and that there was two subjects still left in the residence. the house was almost totally engulfed in flames. gale alison and elizabeth belue ended up dying as a result of the fire. >> as firefighters struggled to extinguish the flames, police on the scene interview ernest and