Family of 13 Displaced After Fire  

On Friday, a family of thirteen in Trio Village was left without a home after a fire destroyed the building completely. That afternoon, around two-thirty p.m., thirty-three-year-old Yuri Choc, her sister, mother, and ten children were at home when a burning fly repellant started a fire somewhere in the house. Yuri Choc, who was inside at the time of the fire, spoke with us today about the incident.

 

On the Phone: Yuri Choc, Fire Victim

“You see when they start to burn the thing I think like Sabana. It just ketch fire and then we see the. We deh inside that da when we see the ashes inside. And then my mom and we run outside and we see the house done ketch fire.”

 

Britney Gordon

“Did anyone get injured?”

 

On the Phone: Yuri Choc

 “No, ma’am.“

 

Britney Gordon

“Nobody got hurt? Okay.”

 

On the Phone: Yuri Choc

“No.”

 

Britney Gordon

“And what about, you know, all of your belongings? Were you able to save anything?”

 

On the Phone: Yuri Choc

“No.  We never save nothing. And only we kitchen stuff and nothing. We never save nothing. But only paper we try take that important. We documents.”

 

Britney Gordon

“So how many people were in the house at the time?”

 

On the Phone: Yuri Choc

“Only ten.”

 

Britney Gordon

“Ten people, and you all made it out safely.”

 

On the Phone: Yuri Choc

“And the kids they with my mom because they can’t get in with the fire because they could get burned. Da dih house we need because I cya stay with my kids with no house and I cya stay with no people. It hurt. We noh got house. And I no have nobody to help me. If my pa mi alive maybe he could help we out brt we noh have nobody fi help we because my pa pass away and my husband pass away. What I need da my house,”

 

Choc and her family can be reached at the number six-six-five-eight-five-five-seven.