The lone survivor of Saturday’s fire that claimed the lives of six people, including four children, at Mc Bean, Couva, is now said to be severely traumatised.

Vanessa Chinapoo, 32, Sarah Chinapoo, 13, Chayim Chinapoo, 10, Moses Chinapoo, 8, Elijah Narine two and a half, and Shantelle Dixon, 22, died after they became trapped by locked burglar proofed doors and windows in their two-storey home as fire raged through the building.

The bodies of the six were found huddled in the bathroom of the house, in a death embrace.

Since then, Daren Dixon-husband, step-father and uncle to the six who perished in the fire-has been under extreme mental pressure, the Express was told yesterday.

’He had to be taken to the Couva Health Centre on Saturday to be treated for a high fever, his blood pressure was high and he is suffering from acute stress,’ his sister, Sofia Dixon, who also lost her daughter and grandson in the fire, said yesterday.

Dixon, who said on Saturday that he had tried his best to get the others out of the burning house, had to be sedated in order for him to sleep, his sister said.

’He is my main concern right now because he is not holding up well at all. He has to take it day by day,’ she said.

She said her family will decide on funeral arrangements after the autopsies are performed today.

Chinapoo’s sister, Verna Darmanie, said her family is also awaiting today’s autopsies to decide when they will bury the family.

’After the autopsies are done tomorrow and we know what really went on with them we will decide on the funeral. It has been very difficult to talk about it and probably after the funeral we will,’ she said.