SASKATOON As Shannon Kay gathered her children to head out of their Buena Vista home on Dec. 12, she suddenly heard cries from one of her seven children as flames and smoke punched through the child’s room. “By the time I got up the stairs my oldest daughter had all my children at the front door, and I glanced up at the stairwell and all I could see was flames and smoke,” Kay said. Rushing out of the home, some barefooted, Kay said she and her children could only salvage a few personal items before the Saskatoon Fire Department arrived.