Family mourns ‘beautiful, loving’ 13-year-old autistic boy who dies in Brooklyn apartment fire (EXCLUSIVE)

The mother of an autistic teen who died in a fast-paced fire in Brooklyn said she and her eldest son desperately tried to get him out of their apartment, but the frightened boy did not move.

Relatives and neighbors were still in shock over the death of young Dylan Waldron Dixon, who died Sunday when flames engulfed the fifth floor of a seven-story building in East Flatbush around 10:30 am.

Dylan’s mother and older brother escaped serious injury after a fire broke out in their apartment building on Snyder Avenue near 35th Street.

Dylan’s mom, Trina Waldron Dixon, said his brother Qamar saw the smoke and fled the bedroom he shared with Dylan, but Dylan refused to leave.

“In the turmoil, I pull it – “Baby, we need to go!” she said. “He won’t budge. He is a big child. I think Qamar got hurt coming back for him. Everything happened so fast. He was scared.”

The smell of smoke and the weight of grief clung to her Brooklyn apartment building on Monday, the day after neighbors and firefighters were injured and 13-year-old Dylan died in a raging blaze.

Dylan Waldron died Sunday in a seven-story building fire in East Flatbush, Brooklyn.

A 21-year-old man, a 50-year-old woman and Dylan were taken to Kings County Hospital, where the boy died, police said.

Dylan’s mother said she didn’t know how the fire started. All she knows is that the flames stole from her a loving, affectionate child who was passionate about music and dancing.

“He was a wonderful child,” she said. “Even though he was on the spectrum, he never let that challenge hold him back. He was a child who loved music, was always happy. Loved to dance. A very sweet young boy. He liked all kinds of music – juice, Electric Hill. He loved to play the guitar.”

Waldron Dixon said that Dylan was the second youngest of seven children and attended nearby IS 231. She said that Dylan had lived in the same Brooklyn apartment all his life.

She added that Lovely, their family cat, also died in the fire.

Dylan would have turned 14 in just a month.

“His birthday is February 24,” said his aunt Allison Waldron. “He was about 6 feet tall and was a handsome, loving boy.”

Fire damage on the sixth floor of a building on Snyder Avenue near E. 35th Street in Brooklyn.

Neighbor Dick Nigel, 51, said he heard a scream, quickly followed by darkness and chaos.

“In two minutes, the entire corridor was plunged into total darkness,” said Nigel. “There is smoke and fire is coming.”

Firefighters outside a building on Snyder Avenue near E. 35th Street in Brooklyn on Sunday.

Nigel said he couldn’t see anything, but he ran into Dylan’s mother and brother as they exited the building.

“They were at the stairwell,” he added. “The last time I saw the older child, he had blood all over his face. He went crazy. I opened the fire station door. He ran downstairs… They were in a completely different world.”

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