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MADERA COUNTY, Calif. (KSEE/KGPE) – Three children passed distant successful a clang in Madera County connected Saturday, and a section pastor shared heartwarming details astir the family.
Pastor Dustin Maddox says 17-year-old Jezreel Ochoa-Valle, 15-year-old James Valle, and 6-year-old Serenity Valenzuela went to North Fresno Church on with their mom, Genevieve Ochoa.
"The household has been a portion of our assemblage for the past 10 years, and they've had immoderate highs and lows and twists and turns successful their beingness and their story. And it's been a truly beauteous narration for the church," helium said with a smile.
He watched the kids turn up successful the congregation and described each of their vibrant personalities:
"[Jezreel] was agleam and affable and comic and would marque friends with astir anybody.... She's incredibly resilient and mature beyond her years," helium said. "James was soundless and spoke with an system of words. And erstwhile helium spoke, determination was thing down what helium was saying, and it was powerful."
"Serenity had a conscionable million-dollar smile. She loved to creation and sing astir and play successful our children's ministry area, was a person to everyone, had a cute small kid mode of talking, and was conscionable a agleam light, arsenic you know, arsenic kids tin be. But she was unsocial and peculiar successful her ain way," helium said.
Officer Sergio Moreno with the California Highway Patrol says the 3 kids were traveling with their ma and grandma erstwhile the clang happened.
"A 48-year-old parent of 3 [was] driving a Honda Odyssey southbound connected Road 24, approaching the intersection astatine Avenue 7, portion astatine the aforesaid time, a man driving a freightliner large rig successful operation with 2 trailers was traveling westbound astatine the scene, approaching the intersection of Road 24 astatine the aforesaid time. For reasons inactive nether investigation, the operator of the Honda failed to halt astatine the halt sign, entered the intersection, and was broadsided by the large rig," helium explained.
A fewer assemblage members YourCentralValley.com spoke with say the agrarian roads successful the country tin beryllium dangerous.
"These situations tin often provoke truly beardown reactions wrong us. And we privation to fig retired who's to blasted and, and things similar that. And there's nary constituent oregon intent successful doing that," Maddox said. "A parent has conscionable mislaid her children. And the lone mode done thing arsenic tragic arsenic this is with the community, you can't spell done it alone."
They are present asking for enactment to assistance the family.
"Here astatine the church, we person a money called Social Action Response Team. We're going to make that into a memorial fund, and our purpose is to beryllium capable to screen each of the ceremonial expenses for the 3 children and the ongoing expenses arsenic Genevieve tries to enactment the breached pieces backmost together," Maddox said.
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