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OROSI, Calif. (KSEE/KGPE) - In the municipality of Orosi, dozens of radical person been near to prime up the fewer belongings they person left, aft a multi-story flat occurrence tore done a gathering adjacent the intersection of Ella Avenue and Road 127 astir 3:45 p.m. Wednesday.
In total, 35 person been near without a home.
People who were forced to unreserved out, galore without a thing, oregon adjacent shoes.
Some of those displaced see the household of Cassandra Prieto, who had called the gathering location for the past 5 years.
Prieto says she was occupied with a household exigency earlier seeing another; her flat analyzable and practically everything she owned were destroyed by fire.
"When I got here, I conscionable seen the occurrence trucks," Prieto told YourCentralValley.com. "I ran done the alley and I checked inside. I looked successful done our apartment. I didn't spot nothing. I conscionable seen my beingness fall," she said.
She says thankfully, her 5 siblings and three-year-old girl escaped uninjured, but are inactive rattled.
"I cognize that everything's replaceable and each that, but my sibling's beingness is not, nor my daughter's," she said. "I'm much than grateful that they're fine."
Prieto, 21, says she is the superior caretaker for not conscionable her daughter, but besides each of her 5 siblings surviving with her, ages 17, 12, 10, nine, and five.
And she says it each deed arsenic she started a caller occupation Thursday, successful hopes of getting them each into a amended situation.
"We're going done a truly hard clip close now. This, that happened, made it adjacent harder."
She and her family, on with each of the others displaced, received assistance and impermanent lodging vouchers from the Red Cross.
As immoderate close successful the area, astatine the Culter Orosi Family Education Center, person already reached retired straight to each of them, adjacent offering snacks, drinks, and shoes to immoderate on-scene erstwhile the occurrence broke out.
Thursday, they began collecting donations, and the assemblage didn't disappoint, with tables afloat of clothes, shoes, food, hygiene supplies, and more.
"We got successful present astatine 8 a.m. and made definite we called families close distant to get their sizes and sound sizes. The kids, if they were okay. Where they stayed the night," Martiza Gonalez, the programme manager for the acquisition center, said.
Now, for Prieto and her family, it's each astir taking things 1 measurement astatine a time.
"I don't cognize wherever this could pb to. I don't cognize what was the meaning of it but I judge everything happens for a reason," she shared.
If you would similar to assistance Prieto's household retrieve from the fire, sojourn their GoFundMe by clicking here.
If you would similar to assistance different assemblage members successful Orosi, the Cutler Orosi Family Education Center is accepting donations until this weekend, including 1 p.m. to 5 p.m. connected Saturday and Sunday.
If you person questions astir what you tin donate, springiness them a telephone astatine 559-528-1790.
