I thought for a minute that we might die. I really did. Before we got out. I was very scared, Soto said.
Soto, who is deaf, speaks through a translator and said that she woke to a special alarm that alerts her when her 6-month-old baby cries but realized something was very wrong when her dog Candy kept barking. All I could see was the smoke. It was very black and dark, she recalled. I couldn’t see much far in front of me at all. We started going down the stairs and I couldn t see so we had to turn back.