Second family impacted by Yuma house fire
Paul Vozzella
YUMA, Ariz. (KYMA, KECY) – A second family is left without a place to live, as their home suffered several thousand dollars of damage from the fire Monday evening.
The residents, Hector Alayl-Vasquez, Iris Sambrano and their daughter, have jumped to a couple different spots to temporarily stay while they figure out how to fix their home.
“It’s been hard,” Sambrano said. “It’s been difficult, just cause we’ve been trying to figure out where to stay.”
The young couple says they were around the corner of their home on West 19th Street and South Third Avenue when they noticed smoke near their home.
All they could do was watch as firefighters tried to save their home.
“It’s my daughter’s first home, so I was worried about losing the place where my daughter was born and raised,” Alayl-Vazquez said. “She had all her first memories growing up [in the trailer].”
While the trailer did suffer extensive damage, the residents are thankful for first responders swift reaction to the fire. Had it spread more, the outcome could have been a lot worse.
“It could have hit the water heater where [the fire] was, and if that did happen, lets say the ambulance, or fire department took a little bit longer, our trailer probably would have been gone,” Sambrano stated.
Although much of the trailer was salvaged and the integrity of the structure is upheld, much of the family’s personal items were too far damaged to recover.
“The smoke got into our clothes [and] our sleeping stuff, so we have to replace some of the stuff,” Alayl-Vasquez said.
The family is looking to raise a minimum of $3,000 to aid in repairing the trailer and items lost inside of their home.
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