It was a trau­mat­ic and dread­ful Sun­day for Aaliyah Small and her moth­er, Al­isha Mo­hammed, as they cried for help while flee­ing their burn­ing home in La Ro­maine.

The morn­ing blaze along Lucky Street Ex­ten­sion left a fam­i­ly of sev­en search­ing for a place to call home af­ter fire rav­aged their two-storey house.

Ac­cord­ing to po­lice, Dere­cia Christo­pher, 35, re­port­ed that around 7.30 am, she locked and se­cured her home, which oc­cu­pies the sec­ond lev­el of the two-storey build­ing. The ground floor is owned by her sis­ter, Mo­hammed.