Residents still without power after fire tears through Santa Nella mobile home park

MERCED COUNTY, Calif. (KFSN) -- People surviving successful a tiny Merced County assemblage are inactive without powerfulness aft a occurrence destroyed electrical instrumentality implicit the weekend.

"Something similar this, it's hard, yeah, it's precise hard," said Paul Martinez, a nonmigratory of Santa Nella Mobile Home Community.

On Saturday, a occurrence destroyed respective mobile homes connected Mercury Street adjacent Comet Road.

A neighbor's Ring camera captured the infinitesimal the flames tore done a adjacent shed.

The occurrence destroyed electrical equipment, leaving much than a twelve homes successful the vigor without power.

Martinez says helium is capable to hole nutrient for his household due to the fact that helium borrowed a powerfulness cord from his neighbor.

"We don't person capable wealth to walk each time connected nutrient outside. We request to bash thing much inexpensive for us," said Martinez.

Martinez and respective different neighbors archer Action News they are frightened to permission their location due to the fact that location burglaries person go much common.

But little than a fractional a mile away, alleviation determination is immoderate alleviation for residents.

"Those are our children, those are our sisters, brothers, mothers, aunts, uncles, similar we request to assistance them. It breaks my bosom to spot them suffering close now," said Shannon Cook, income manager of Mission Hotel De Oro.

Mission Hotel De Oro Sales Director Shannon Cook says the edifice is offering escaped accommodation to families who person been displaced oregon are without power.

"We are portion of the Santa Nella community, and if we tin supply that work for our people, we're present to help," said Cook.

Cook says they are not getting reimbursed by an enactment oregon County program.

People surviving without powerfulness said they expected much assistance and urgency from Merced County.

Action News reached retired to the region to inquire however they program to assistance the radical of Santa Nella.

They sent implicit a connection that says, successful part,

"Our hearts are with those affected by the occurrence successful the Santa Nella Mobile Home Community, which has near galore without power. There is simply a short-term solution successful the works to reconstruct power, and accelerated advancement is being made by each agencies involved."

Part of that short-term solution is to supply a generator arsenic soon arsenic imaginable to proviso powerfulness to those who request it most.

For its part, PG&E says it has been assisting the county, and they accidental that they are acceptable to reconnect the vicinity to the grid arsenic soon arsenic the spot proprietor repairs their electrical equipment.

"It's astir been a week, and we've seen precise small to nary progress."

For Jacquelyn Bejar, surviving without powerfulness has go physically painful.

"I mean, it's 111 (degrees), I get rashes, I person eczema, truthful it flares up beauteous bad," said Bejar.

As she holds onto anticipation during the blistery weather, she and galore of her neighbors request assistance now.

The region couldn't accidental erstwhile that generator would beryllium successful place.

They adhd that County Human Services has worked with much than 50 radical who were impacted by the occurrence oregon are presently without power.

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