A Belize City family was burnt out last night. It happened around 9:00 on Faber's Road, where a 12 year old was at home with his 89 year old grandmother and four younger nieces and nephews. That's when a candle started a fire, which the grandmother and pre-teen could not put out. The boy's mother who was nearby but not at home told us in an off camera interview that she rushed home only to find that all had been lost:..
Voice of: Irma Crawford, resident of house that was burnt down
"When I reach there I ask where my mother and my kids are and I was told that they were at the long barracks step."
Geovanni Brackett, reporter
"It appears that the fire may have started in a room, particularly from a candle or something?"
Voice of: Irma Crawford, resident of house that was burnt down
"Yes it started in my mother's room and then it just spread. She says that she and my son was trying to put out the fire but the water that they had was too little, so my son took out my mother and the 4 year old and took them downstairs and he went up for the rest. After that he says he doesn't know what happen. He says that he saw the house in flames."
"People say that a man came to help him my mother and he (my son) took out the rest. I really need help urgently because all my children clothes are burnt up. I don't have anything right now. If anyone out there can assist us we will accept it."
Those wanting to help can call 622 - 9050. They don't know if the home is insured as it is the property of a neighbor who lives in the US.
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