7 News Belize

Comatose Man’s Home Caught in The Explosion
posted (December 13, 2017)

Area rep. Montero says that overall there were about 10 homes and 8 vehicles that were destroyed and as you heard the company will pay for all the damages caused by the blast. We now have more interviews from other residents whose houses were destroyed and who were hurt in the explosion. We also spoke to a woman who had to rush her comatose brother to the hospital.

Marlin Guerra - Resident

"I was coming from 5 o'clock from down yonder and I see they had some boys right there and they told me that I can't go to my house and then when I see the explosion come and when I see a lot of stones I start to run and a stone caught me on my back and then a next one caught me on my head."

Courtney Weatherburne

"So you were walking up this way when the explosion happened?"

Marlin Guerra

"Yes and then I start to run and I cover under a tree but I done get hot already."

Juanita Vanegas - Resident

"I could tell you my house damaged bad inside, everything is damaged in there, nothing is good in the house and what hurt us is that we lost everything."

Courtney Weatherburne

"This is pretty much a new house you have here right?"

Juanita Vanegas

"Yes ma'am, my just complete 7 months the 6th of December so that hurt me and I cried when I saw it yesterday."

Courtney Weatherburne

"You worked hard to get that new home."

Juanita Vanegas

"Yes ma'am and I don't know about the rest of neighbors but I'm so angry because I don't know why they would come do that in public like that."

Courtney Weatherburne

"Where were you when the explosion happened?"

Juanita Vanegas

"Well I down at the bottom of the hill when the explosion happened and I got this injury on my leg."

Courtney Weatherburne

"So just explain to us what happened yesterday, you said you had a brother who is in a coma in this same room as you were telling me what happened yesterday."

Karen Dawson - Resident

"He lies on a hospital bed right here, there is an oxygen tank here, there is a suction machine on that side, he's been comatose for the last 6 and a half weeks from a motorcycle accident so literally this is where the roof caved in and he was covered in debris, rocks, dust, everything. I was literally in the kitchen cooking something for him to eat because he has 6 feedings per day and it was about time to feed him and I thought the blasting was finished because it was almost a couple hours before anything else happened. So I went and I put on the stove and when the first blast happened I literally left from the door to the kitchen counter and the door blew up and the bottom of the door blew open so I was right in that path. Then I ran in here and looked at him and that's when the stuff came through the roof."

Courtney Weatherburne

"He wasn't injured? None of the rocks or stones fell on him?"

Karen Dawson

"He had stuff on him because the rocks and he was red all over his ribs but he has a tracheostomy too that was open and all the dust and stuff you know and in his nose and stuff."

Home | Archives | Downloads/Podcasts | Advertise | Contact Us

7 News Belize