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MEMPHIS, Tenn. — It’s one of the deadliest fires in Memphis history and Monday night family and friends gathered outside a home on Severson to remember the nine lives lost. Six of them were children. “Don’t know what to say, I don’t know what to feel.” A father mourning and praying. He’s lost his family. The only survivor of the deadly blaze was his 9-year-old son Cameron who is fighting for his life at the hospital. “Cameron is a fighter whatever he does he always finishes. He has that will,” said his grandmother, Veronica Fayer. A community left grieving, but joining together for strength. “This whole neighborhood, everybody we are just like a whole big family.” The tragedy also took a toll on firefighters who carried the bodies of the young children from the smoldering home. “This is devastating to our fire crews. We never want to arrive on a scene of this magnitude.”