Despite being disconnected by phone, Bledsoe said that at the time he still had hope his family was alive.
He said he was told that the sheriff's office picked them up and rescued them. He told the fire department he thought his wife and great-grandkids were in the house. Fire officials sent a fire crew in and reported no bodies were found.
A search then commenced for the family.
Fliers were created. The family even created a GoFundMe page because, according to that page, Bledsoe was renting the home and didn't have insurance.
The day after being told there were no bodies in the home, a relative who's a firefighter told the department they needed to search the rubble again. That's when the bodies were found.
Bledsoe's wife had wrapped the kids and herself in wet blankets as the fire drew near.
"I would've liked to have went in there and died with them," Bledsoe said.
Bledsoe said even though the family was not told to evacuate, he feels more guilty than angry.
"I can't blame it on nobody but me. I shouldn't have left my family in harm's way."
Raising great-grandchildren
Bledsoe and his wife had raised the two great-grandchildren since birth.
"I raised them, took care of them and taught them everything they know. Me and Grandma," he said, referring to his wife.
Bledsoe said his wife, Melody, "was the best wife a guy could have. They didn't make them no better."
He said when the couple first got together, she had about $24,000 in the bank. A child in their neighborhood needed surgery, but the child's family did not have the finances so Melody wrote a check to the family for the child to get the surgery.
"That's what kind of woman she was," he said.
Family friend Jason Decker told CNN affiliate KGO that 4-year-old Emily loved to play with other children in the area and "lit up the room."
Decker said 5-year-old James idolized his great-grandfather and wanted to wear suspenders just like him.
In his great-grandson's last moments speaking to him on the phone, Bledsoe said he "sounded happy because he was talking to me and he knew Grandpa was coming to help him."
As of Sunday, the Carr Fire had burned through 95,368 acres since it began on Monday and was 17% contained, according to the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection, known as Cal Fire.