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Sunday, June 7, 2009

Empathy.

It seams lately, Mexico is just making headlines on the news. I don't normally post news but I felt really saddened when I heard about this. I can't beggin to imagine how the parents of all the todlers that died feel, I'm sure nothing can compare to loosing your baby, so for all those little ones and the parents they left behind if you read this today say a prayer for them.
(In the bottom excerps of news reports)

Mexico day care fire kills 38 children
HERMOSILLO, Mexico (AP) — Sobbing relatives waited outside a morgue Saturday to claim the bodies of 38 children killed in a day care fire in northern Mexico despite desperate attempts to evacuate babies and toddlers through the building's only working exit. A father crashed his pickup truck through the wall in an effort to rescue his child.

The family of 2-year-old Maria Magdalena Millan held a funeral for her, dropping white roses onto her tiny coffin and attaching a Dora the Explorer balloon to the cross marking her grave. One woman held a framed picture of her.

"I love you and I don't want to leave you here!" her mother screamed.

Delfina Ruelas, 60, said her grandchild German Leon died of his burns Saturday morning, three days after his fourth birthday. She and her husband saw television news reports that the ABC day care was on fire Friday and rushed over that evening.

"I thought he wasn't that burned and that we would find him OK, but he was very burned," said Ruelas, dissolving into tears outside the morgue in the northern city of Hermosillo, where she waited along with 30 other relatives. "They operated on him yesterday, and he held on, but today he couldn't hold on."

Firefighters carried injured children through the front door — the building's only working exit — and through large holes that a civilian knocked into the walls before rescue crews arrived, according to a fire department official who spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to speak publicly about the fire.

Noe Velasquez, an employee at a nearby auto parts store who helped pull out five toddlers, said the father of one of the children rammed his pickup truck through a wall. Velasquez did not know if the man's child survived.

"I didn't sleep last night. I've never gone through anything like that in all my life," he said.

There were an estimated 142 children in the day care at the time of the fire, their ages ranging from 6 months to 5 years, and six staffers to look after them, Bours said at a news conference Saturday.

"As a doctor I have confronted death on many occasions," Lopez said, his voice cracking. "But I'm seeing so much misfortune and suffering now, it breaks my heart."

Thirty-three children remain hospitalized, 23 of them in Hermosillo, including 15 who are in critical condition, Lopez said, adding that one of them is brain dead.

Nine children have been transferred to other Mexican hospitals, eight of them to the western Mexican city of Guadalajara, and one to Ciudad Obregon in Sonora, he said.

A 3-year-old girl with burns over 80 percent of her body was sent by military transport to be treated at Shriners Hospital for Children Northern California, said Carlos Gonzalez Gutierrez, Consul General for Mexico based in Sacramento, California.

Photographs showed the sidewalk outside the day care strewn with upturned, slightly blackened baby seats and cribs in the immediate aftermath of the blaze. Cribs also could been seen through huge holes punched through the walls.

1 comments:

Marie said...

Oh my God, that's just awful...brought me to tears...so thankful for Home Schooling...& the Lords protection..we are so blessed. I can't imagine the poor parents...so sad.LHT