Family Loses Their Home In A Fire
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KGNS News
Story Created:
Jan 26, 2012 at 11:16 PM CDT
Story Updated:
Jan 27, 2012
It was something the family never expected to happen to them. But after leaving a candle lit for just a short time, their home now remains in ruins. We spoke to them as they recalled what happened on that tragic day.
January 24th forever changed the lives of Ysa Martinez and her family. The mother to four year old Joshua said there had been an outage all day in the neighborhood, so Martinez decided to leave her grandmother at home while she passed the time by running errands.
"To go do our laundry just to get out of the house for a little bit and I lit a candle."
Leaving a candle lit while going to the laundry mat, Martinez returned 10 minutes later to see the scene of her home in chaos.
"I see the fire department. I see smoke and I think about my grandmother."
"This is my grandmother's room and I thank God she wasn't asleep."
Luckily, Martinez's grandmother, Yolanda Barnett, a long time substitute teacher for L.I.S.D. is ok. Things could have turned out worse since Barnett went in the home while it was on fire to try to save her chihuahua.
"She tried to go in there and because of that she inhaled a lot of the smoke. She had smoke inhalation so EMS took her just to check her out."
According to investigators, there was 50% to 70% of damage. As Martinez showed us what's left of the home she's lived in since she was two days old, it's easy to see just how fast a fire can spread from a candle.
"If you leave, blow em out. Blow em out because I thought I was careful. I really really did and apparently I wasn't careful enough."
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you know said on Saturday, Jan 28 at 7:31 AM
If you don't want people to criticize you, DO NOT appear on the local news for everyone to judge you. She could have refused the interview, but seems like she wanted her 15 minutes.
80546854anon @11:33 said on Friday, Jan 27 at 8:39 PM
Insensitive comments are a new thing around here? Get real. It's what these blogs always bring out!
80534398from the real cg said on Friday, Jan 27 at 2:00 PM
its the same idiot that got mad cause I told her that she was a bad parent for complaining she was not sending her child to school on Martin Luther king day casue all the other schools were closed
80514582To anon from the real cg said on Friday, Jan 27 at 1:59 PM
Hey that was not me guys some idiot is posting as me.
80514502Anonymous said on Friday, Jan 27 at 1:18 PM
it was the santisima muerte candle ABUEVO! only in laredo
80511423Anonymous said on Friday, Jan 27 at 12:33 PM
cg, you are an insensitive creep whoever you are!! Just watch your house burn down because you think a person is dumb for losing her home. Shame on you!! Don't ever blog on here again if you're not going to contribute in a positive way.
80508344cg said on Friday, Jan 27 at 12:19 PM
Serves her right. Who leaves a candle lit without supervision? So dumb.
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