Roaring Creek Family Needs Your Help to Rebuild Their Home

A family of six from Roaring Creek Village is displaced after their home went up in smoke on Easter Sunday morning. Moises Garbutt, his wife, and their four small children had just left home to go to a neighbour’s house, where he was trying to finish a project. But less than thirty minutes later, the place they called home was on fire. News Five’s Marion Ali reports.

 

Marion Ali, Reporting

A young family and their four little children are depending on you to help them rebuild their home that burnt down on Easter Sunday morning. Moises Garbutt told us he was trying to help a relative fix their home when he found out that his one was ablaze.

  

Moises Garbutt, Fire Victim

“Everyone was over there assisting with some wooden projects and minutes after, the neighbors shouted that the house was on fire. When I came home, the whole house was total – almost totalled. Everything was almost gone.”

 

Garbutt says he can only assume what claimed his house.

 

Moises Garbutt

“I believe it’s due to the heat and some glass object that was nearby.  Something like that probably caused the burner.”

 

Marion Ali

“Have the fire officials been here to investigate?”

 

Moises Garbutt

“They came and they investigate. They give me – they are not so sure, but they give me a little idea where the fire started more or less.”

 

Garbutt said he was not able to save anything, and his losses are significant.

 

Marion Ali

“How much would you say you lost?

 

Moises Garbutt

“About $15, $16,000 with total everything.”

 

Marion Ali

“And then now you’ve been displaced, so you, your wife and your kids are staying where?”

 

Moises Garbutt

“Everyone is staying at my aunt, we’re trying to lean on them. I’m begging for, anyone here to help anyone in the community. I need basically just a material to build another board structure or something. It doesn’t have to be the same, it doesn’t matter if it’s smaller or so, just so I can have a roof or something over my head and my family.”

 

If you can assist Moises Garbutt and his family to rebuild their home, you can reach him at 638 5739.  Marion Ali for News Five.