The Fire Started
Dec 19, 2007 Daily Blurbs
I have been thinking about how I should celebrate my birthday, but now, I know what to do. I will just hear mass and pray really hard for my family and relatives. Today, at around 3:30pm, the house that I grew up in, my grandmother’s house, my aunt and uncle’s houses were engulfed by fire. Everything was gone in a span of seconds. My relatives weren’t able to salvage anything from their personal belongings except the clothes on their back. They lost everything in their modular homes. I received the news while I was at my internship. My first thought was my grandmother, if she’s OK, because if anything happened to her, it will truly crush me. The news felt unreal, my hands became so cold and I couldn’t distinguish the emotion that I was feeling. I thought I was just having a bad dream, that maybe my sister’s text message was just a figment of my imagination because I was bored at work. My mom sent a follow up message, and that made it real. My heart felt so heavy inside my chest. I was trying to compose myself and not cry, but I couldn’t help it. I told one of the heads in the office that I have to go to my grandmother’s house.
My mom told me that she just arrived at my grandmother’s place and she’s at the hospital. She’s safe, but she’s been sick since yesterday and because of this ordeal, she just felt sicker and needed to be rushed to the hospital. My 7-year-old cousin, Roan, received second degree burns on her arms, and parts of her legs and feet. She was sleeping next to the room where the fire started.
Apparently, the fire started in the vacant bedroom next to my grandma’s. The house is old and was built from wood. The investigators think that the fire is due to faulty wiring, which is a possibility. It is really unfortunate that this happened 7 days before Christmas. I really feel sorry for the kids because my cousin said they just bought new clothes and shoes for Christmas, and now, they’re all gone. Even my cousin’s Yorkshire Terrier, Twinkle, died..
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