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FRESNO, Calif. (KSEE/KGPE) - Fresno ma Valeria Martinez and her 2 boys were not location erstwhile a car plowed done their surviving country and destroyed their flat earlier this month.
The car that crashed into her location connected Dec. 7 was being pursued by the Fresno County Sheriff's Office - but deputies called disconnected the pursuit erstwhile the pursuit became dangerous. Around 5 minutes later, Fresno Police reported that the conveyance had crashed into Valeria's home.
Martinez says she and her boys decided to person a movie nighttime astatine her sister's location connected a whim; astatine the aforesaid time, Martinez's roommate was visiting her parents for the weekend.
She says she's some anxious and uneasy astir what the car could person done to them if they had been home.
"It was astir 11:30 a.m. erstwhile we got a telephone from the constabulary department," Martinez said. "The idiosyncratic I spoke to initially was the dispatcher."
Martinez says the dispatcher asked her if anyone was home, and past they told Martinez they would telephone back.
"I was truthful anxious," Martinez said. "My dogs were [at home.] When they called maine backmost they were like, 'They were successful pursuit of a car, the car ran into your apartment.'"
When Martinez arrived astatine the flat she says the location was surrounded by firefighters and police.
"We were fortunate we weren't home," Martinez said.
She says she and her sons would person apt been location watching TV successful the surviving country if they had not been visiting her sister. The car missed Martinez's dogs by 10 feet.
Martinez is present staying with household successful Chowchilla. As a societal idiosyncratic successful Clovis, she says the commute has been difficult.
"My kids request to beryllium astatine schoolhouse by 8 a.m. and I sometimes enactment overtime. I'm connected telephone until 1 a.m.," Martinez said. "The fog, it's conscionable dangerous. It was raining the different time and conscionable having to spell backmost and distant each azygous day. It's been truly pugnacious connected us."
Most of all, Martinez says the clang has truly affected her boys, particularly her seven-year-old lad who has autism.
"He wants to slumber connected his furniture and present helium can't person that astatine my mom's house," Martinez said. "[Now] my lad conscionable wants to slumber with me. If I slumber connected the sofa helium wants to slumber connected the couch. It's a conflict for him."
Martinez says she's inactive processing the lawsuit and doing her champion to get her household backmost up connected their feet.
A GoFundMe has been acceptable up for the Martinez household and that tin beryllium recovered here. Martinez says she and her household would beryllium eternally grateful for immoderate help.
