Why they had a couple of lit candles in the house is any ones guess. It was in the afternoon and six year old Roberto was alone in his house with his two-year old sister. A six-year old boy and lit candles are a bad combination. Mother was at work and father, well he was away looking for a pack of cigarettes. Everything went wrong that afternoon and four lives were radically changed.
Roberto knocked over one of the candles and the fire stated from there, soon it was the whole house. Flames, smoke the whole works. His little sister tried to get out of the bed and make it to the door, but her feet got caught in the blankets. Roberto ran around then made it out the door.
By the time anyone got into the burning house and pulled the child out she was badly burned. In a matter of hours Shriners pulled a copter in and flew the little girl and her mother to their famous burn hospital in Sacramento ... the same hospital Josue goes to every few months.
As of now the little girl with most of her body burned is still living. Fortunately her head and face weren't burned. Roberto is staying with some neighbors and the father, he's in jail preparing for prison.
Indeed there is more than one way to make a widow, we've a lot of those kind of widows, their men are in prison.
Trinchirasso is one of our areas and we're following the situation to see how we can be of help. We're just thankful it wasn't worse; the little girl has a long painful journey ahead and could use your prayers.
