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The Voice of Seguin Today
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Family forced to renovate home following house fire on Thanksgiving Day Community rallies around family to show its support By Cindy Aguirre-Herrera
jumped in my car and I called my neighbor and asked can you please do me a favor? If you hear something, if you see something, please let me know. He said, ‘I’m right around the corner. Let me turn back.’ He turned back. By the time, he called me, I was already around the corner. He said, there’s smoke coming out the vent and sure enough, I jumped out of the car and I just told him can you call 9-1-1. Call 9-1-1!” said Garcia.
(Seguin) -- A local family is left with even more heartbreak during this already difficult year. The family of Kelsie Garcia and Luis Lopez, Jr. are busy picking up the pieces, this week, after their home was destroyed by fire just minutes after finishing up their Thanksgiving meal on Thursday. Thanks to a home motion, sound detector device that notifies her cell phone, Garcia says her family, who was enjoying the meal at her mom’s house, was able to rush back to save what they could at their home located in the 700 block of Boenig St. Garcia says what she initially thought was an alert about a car alarm quickly turned into one of her worst nightmares. “I got my phone and picked it up again and said ‘it’s not right! It doesn’t sound like a car alarm’ and I picked it back up again and I told them, ‘it sounds like a smoke alarm! It really sounds like a smoke alarm. That a smoke alarm is going off.’ I jumped up and ran through the house and I went and told my mom ‘mom, my smoke alarms are going off. I’ve got to go.’ I ran out the door and
Upon arriving, Garcia says all they could do was try to find her daughter’s Chihuahua named Dumplin and help put out the flames.
Kelsie Garcia, her husband Luis Lopez, Jr. and their three children, Lana, Luis III and Lyla are thankful to the community for its support after their home was destroyed by fire on Thanksgiving Day. A GoFundMe account and drop off location at Parker’s Building Supply have been established to help the family get back on its feet. Courtesy photo.
“My husband rushed through the house. We had a dog inside who just had puppies a few weeks ago and we couldn’t find the dog and my husband is trying to look through the house to find her to see where she is at. I was in panic mode I guess being in shock and my husband is looking for where the fire is at and got the water hose in and my neighbor helped us with water hoses and we got the water hoses through the window and started spraying water everywhere,” said Garcia. See FIRE, page 3