Man dies in Christmas house fire after saving family, looking for engagement ring he planned to use on NYE [Video]

OAKLAND, Calif. (KGO) – A family in California started their Christmas Day mourning a tremendous loss.

Steven Weatherford, 37, died trying to save his family from their burning house – and while trying to salvage the engagement ring he was planning on proposing to his girlfriend with.

Lashante Mayo, Weatherford’s girlfriend, said she just learned on Christmas morning that he was planning to propose on New Year’s Eve.

“Steven was truly the best person you could ever meet,” she said. “He loved his family, his friends, everybody so much. He died trying to get them out of the house. And he succeeded. I loved him so much.”

Weatherford’s aunt Eunice Smith said for generations, the family would host big …