Parents in northern Mexico on Sunday began to bury the children who died in a horrific day-care fire as Mexican authorities raised the death toll from the blaze to 41.Neighbors described parents arriving at the day-care center completely desperate, seeing it engulfed in flames and knowing there was no way to get the children out. The building had two doors, one of which was padlocked shut, and windows were too high for the children to reach.
Three critically burned children have even been airlifted to the Shriners Hospital in Sacramento for treatment.
The news is getting out that the owners of the day care center were actually government employees and may have used their influence to pass inspections and cut corners with safety, and a terrible cost.
I was particularly touched to read the story of one woman who dressed her four children in their Sunday best, and they walked several miles to the cemetery, to attend the funeral yesterday of one of the victims, a 2-year-old. And they did not even know the family, just a mother who wanted the dead child's mother to know she was there to offer solace.
Pray for the families. Know that the children are with God.
2 comments:
Tragedies like this make me ill, literally. I have a hard time clearing my mind of horrers like these.
Their poor families.
"The news is getting out that the owners of the day care center were actually government employees and may have used their influence to pass inspections and cut corners with safety, and a terrible cost. "
this makes it even more sad no sense of responsiblity for anyone's life and safety.
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