Melinda Colon woke up at around 2 o’clock Friday morning to the sound of an explosion in her Lake Nona home. She says someone purposely went inside and set it on fire while they were sleeping.

“There was nothing but flames, could see them from the bottom of the stairs so I ran to my kids bedroom.”

She doesn’t want to show her face because she’s concerned for her family’s safety. Her kids range from ages 9 to 12. All of them are special needs children, one with a growth disorder, another with mild autism and the third is asthmatic.

“I carried one at a time off the roof and dropped them slowly onto the vehicle that was awaiting below.” This 32 year old mother broke her foot climbing over the flames with her kids. “They were a little scared.”

Scared, because they’ve been targeted for the last 10 days. Melinda says it all started when someone threw bottles filled with gasoline into the windows.

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