Family of Ten Left Homeless in Guinea Grass House Fire

A family of ten in Guinea Grass Village is asking for help tonight after an early morning fire turned their lives upside down. Around six o’clock, twenty-five-year-old Jose Mejia woke up to the smell of smoke and discovered flames tearing through one of the rooms in his home. He managed to get the kids out safely, and thankfully, everyone escaped with only minor injuries. But the blaze destroyed everything they owned. Now, Jose says they’re left with nothing but the clothes on their backs, and each other.

 

On the Phone: Jose Mejia, Fire Victim

“We were sleeping. We were sleeping, miss and then suddenly I receive a message from my girl. And then I wake up. When I wake up I see like smoke. I smell smoke, and then I hurry, wake up bralee because he was in other bed from other room and then the fire actually start in my sister-in-law room where no one was there in the that room.”

 

Britney Gordon

“So do you have any idea how the fire was started?”

 

Jose Mejia

“Actually miss there was there was one outlet miss on that at two by four post. And then the fire was already high. The fire wasn’t like I dunno how to say the tocador, where they put clothes.”

 

Britney Gordon

“And were you guys able to make it out of the house safely with no injuries?”

 

Jose Mejia

“Only my foot  get a lee burn miss. And then because I stayed with my lee baby miss. I hurry and wake up my lee bralee. I hurry make he get up. And the next one also. So I wake up my baby and hurry tek out he from the house.”

 

Britney Gordon

“And how quickly were fire personnel able to get to your place? Were they able to recover anything?”

 

On the Phone: Jose Mejia

“Actually not anything the the first fireman came when everything was almost burn, miss.”

 

Britney Gordon

“So you guys lost everything, essentially?”

 

On the Phone: Jose Mejia

“Everything miss. I was trying to save him was trying to save some clothes, but then the fire catch it, miss, and then everything get burned. We have one from little girl from six years. We have my baby who’s in four years. And then we have my sister-in-law daughter where she have him four years. And we have a  seven-year-old. We have an eleven-year-old, thirteen, fifteen. We got one twenty-one. You got one twenty-three and we have my father-in-law who is forty-five.”

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