America was touched by the heartbreaking images of Madonna Badger sobbing as she said her final goodbyes to her family at the funerals of her three children and parents last week, and now RadarOnline.com has exclusive details of the devoted mom's fight to save them from the deadly fire that destroyed her Connecticut home.

"She was pretty hysterical and extremely emotional," Assistant Fire Chief Peter Brown of the Stamford Fire Department told RadarOnline.com in an exclusive interview. "She was trying to get back into the house, they had to physically stop her from going into the house and back up the ladder."

As RadarOnline previously reported, investigators believe the blaze started from yule log embers that Badger and her boyfriend Michael Borcina placed in the back foyer in a bag.