COMO, Miss. — A 5-year-old boy is dead after a house fire in Panola County, Mississippi.
The fire destroyed a mobile home at the Jones Trailer Court on Highway 51 just north of Como.
Neighbors say they went inside the burning home to try to save the little boy but they were unsuccessful.
“I tried my best to save that baby,” said Ray Doyle, who lives in another trailer at the complex.
Doyle went from room to room, searching for the little boy, but eventually was overcome by smoke and had to go back outside.
“I tried my best, I stopped breathing because too much stuff was going my lungs. I stopped breathing,” said Doyle.
Doyle was taken to the hospital to be treated for smoke inhalation and was later released.
The identity of the child has not been released, pending notification of family.
The cause of the fire is not known.