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House Falls In City, Devastates Family
posted (December 5, 2014)
Tonight a Belize City man needs your assistance after he lost everything inside his home. Sometime this afternoon Miguel Vansen - a resident of Roches Street in the Lake Independence Area - received the news from his neighbors that his upstairs wooden house had collapsed. Luckily no one was inside the house - but all his belongings were destroyed. Monica Bodden spoke to a very emotional Vansen a few hours ago:..

Miguel Vansen - Home Owner
"I was working on a street right over there when my neighbor came and told me that my house fell. I never believe it, but when I came I saw it like that."

Reporter
"Sir, was your house shaking before?"

Miguel Vansen - Home Owner
"Yes it was shaking because when the hard breeze come I would feel it the shake. It never really had good board and thing. Most of it was already leaning."

Reporter
"You lived there alone?"

Miguel Vansen - Home Owner
"My little girl was around, but she ended up going by her mother, so I alone was living there. Everything in there is broken up. My only savings that I had - everything is broken up."

Reporter
"You have a place to go?"

Miguel Vansen - Home Owner
"Right now no. I have my sister, but she lives at Mahogany Heights, she is a nurse. It's only her and I. My parents had already passed away."

If you would like to assist Vansen, he can be contacted at telephone number 6-0-2-7-3-0-0.

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