. >> reporter: natalie levine is being described as having a zest for life. she is described as loving being home to her son, both born death. >> she was just so happy. you can see the pictures on facebook. she would always postabout this new love she found. >> reporter: but the unthinkable happened monday morning. >> we spoken to a witness. >> reporter: the witness took these tpe -- photos from his truck. natalie was rear ended by a big big rig. >> the vehicle had rolled over several times and it was crushed. >> reporter: raymond managed to escape the burning car. he says he was asleep but the car jolted him. through sign language she says he remembers her mom putting out her arm to protect him. and remembers shortly after a stop she had a water bottle. >> i started playing with the water and she said stop it raymond. >> reporter: after the crash raymond did not know how to notify his family. at the hospital he sent out a facebook message asking for help. >> reporter: friends have started an online account and started a funeral account for natalie levine. >>

. >> reporter: natalie levine is being described as having a zest for life. she is described as loving being home to her son, both born death. >> she was just so happy. you can see the pictures on facebook. she would always postabout this new love she found. >> reporter: but the unthinkable happened monday morning. >> we spoken to a witness. >> reporter: the witness took these tpe -- photos from his truck. natalie was rear ended by a big big rig. >> the vehicle had rolled over several times and it was crushed. >> reporter: raymond managed to escape the burning car. he says he was asleep but the car jolted him. through sign language she says he remembers her mom putting out her arm to protect him. and remembers shortly after a stop she had a water bottle. >> i started playing with the water and she said stop it raymond. >> reporter: after the crash raymond did not know how to notify his family. at the hospital he sent out a facebook message asking for help. >> reporter: friends have started an online account and started a funeral account for natalie levine. >>

last monday morning, 37-year- old natalie levine was driving with her boyfriend and her 16- year-oldmond. all three are deaf. they were on an interstate in new mexico when a big rig rear ended levine's car. there was an explosion and her car rolled over several times, killing her and her boyfriend. >> losing my daughter, it's unbearable. it's really hard. >> levine's son was in the front passenger seat. he says he was asleep when the crash happened and remembers his mother putting out her arm to protect him. once in the hospital, he did not know how to contact relatives, so he reached out through facebook and was reunited. friends have now started an online account to help the family with expenses. >>> well, we are learning more information about a fire that claimed the lives of two people in sunnyvale. it happened at a mobile home early thursday morning. investigators say statements made by the sole survivor indicate that a man who lived in that home helped him escape. then, that man decided to go back inside to rescue a woman, but neither made it out alive. the sole survivor is men