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PARLIER, Calif. (KFSN) -- The assemblage of Parlier is grieving the nonaccomplishment of 5 household members and praying for the sole survivor's recovery.
Just implicit a week ago, the Ochoa-Saldana family, who erstwhile lived successful Parlier and Fresno, was connected their mode location from a sojourn to their hometown successful Michoacan.
They were 2 hours distant from their existent location successful Bend, Oregon, erstwhile they crashed connected the slippery highway.
Police accidental the driver, 39-year-old Juan Ochoa, veered into oncoming traffic.
Juan, his woman Eva, their 2 teenage kids, and their youngest, a one-year-old, died astatine the scene.
Their 11-year-old girl is the lone 1 who survived and is present successful captious condition.
"It's truly sad, to spot a full household conscionable walk distant successful seconds, it's truly bad," expresses Alvina Talavera, a household person of the clang victims.
Alvina has known the household for implicit 20 years.
They are from the aforesaid tiny municipality successful Mexico.
Alvina describes the household arsenic tight-knit, faith-based and ne'er forgetting their roots.
"They were truly united. Just to travel, each of them, each together, you tin spot the household was truly humble, caring, responsible, hard-working," mentioned Alvina.
The assemblage is heartbroken and astatine a loss, and the interaction is being felt crossed the nation.
People person been hosting fundraisers, including this GoFundMe page, to assistance alert the 5 of them home, to their last resting spot successful Ocomicho, Michoacan.
The 11-year-old miss is successful Oregon, warring for her beingness with her family.
"We cognize however hard it is to person 1 household member. Now it's five. I cognize Eva's parents are successful Mexico, truthful they privation her to beryllium with them and Juan's family, too," said Alvina.
Travel expenses tin outgo implicit $50,000.
That's wherefore Parlier is jumping successful to help.
There volition beryllium a nutrient merchantability fundraiser this upcoming Sunday from 8 americium until supplies past astatine the Campesinos Services Parking batch successful Parlier.
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