Four Polish families homeless after two house fires in Poland
Warsaw, Poland 2 February, 2010 - Five children, aged four months to 12 years, were home alone when their building burst into flames.
“Our house is burning, please come quickly, we have here a small child,” the oldest said, calling the police, while three of her siblings tried to save the baby.
Their parents were at the bank and on their other property at the time.
Police are currently investigating why the Przesmysl apartment burst into flames at 5pm Thursday.
Three other families fled from their burning building and lost everything in the fire. All they have is the clothes they were wearing as they evacuated. And now they have to call the common room at the local fire station home because their local municipality can’t offer them any accommodation.
“They boys were in bed, watching cartoons, so I lay down next to them and I nodded off,” said a tenant. The fire erupted Thursday morning in a ground floor kitchen and quickly engulfed the whole building by the train station at Wierzchowa, Zachodniopomorskie Province.
The woman’s son saw smoke and wore her.
“I dressed myself and my kids and we got out through the window,” she said.
“Round the back there was an awning, I knocked on my neighbors’ window.”
They sought refuge in her apartment, again climbing through a window, but her home too filled up with smoke and all the residents left the building as they were to stand in the freezing cold and watch their lives burn down.
Fortunately no one was hurt. But three families lost their homes and have nowhere to go.
“No one can help me, I can’t count on my family because they too are poor,” Sylwia Klesta said. She has moved into the common room with her four children, the oldest 9, the youngest just three months old.
Another family, the Ilowski’s, took their children to the in-laws, but there’s not much room for them and it is a temporary arrangement.
We have a village common room by the fire station which we can offer this cause. Because the municipality has no social housing,” said the village prefect Emilia Niemyt.
Ms Niemyt is currently in talks with the owner of the devastated building, Polish State Railways, to encourage them to help accommodate the families.
They are also in material need. They need virtually everything, food, clothing, furniture.
Four Polish families homeless after two house fires in Poland.
Five children, aged four months to 12 years, were home alone when their building burst into flames.
“Our house is burning, please come quickly, we have here a small child,” the oldest said, calling the police, while three of her siblings tried to save the baby.
Their parents were at the bank and on their other property at the time.
Police are currently investigating why the Przesmysl apartment burst into flames at 5pm Thursday.
Three Polish families fled from their burning Poland home and lost everything in the fire. All they have is the clothes they were wearing as they evacuated. And now they have to call the common room at the local fire station home because their local municipality can’t offer them any accommodation.
“They boys were in bed, watching cartoons, so I lay down next to them and I nodded off,” said a tenant. The fire erupted Thursday morning in a ground floor kitchen and quickly engulfed the whole building by the train station at Wierzchowa, Zachodniopomorskie Province.
The woman’s son saw smoke and wore her.
“I dressed myself and my kids and we got out through the window,” she said.
“Round the back there was an awning, I knocked on my neighbors’ window.”
They sought refuge in her apartment, again climbing through a window, but her home too filled up with smoke and all the residents left the building as they were to stand in the freezing cold and watch their lives burn down.
Fortunately no one was hurt. But three families lost their homes and have nowhere to go.
“No one can help me, I can’t count on my family because they too are poor,” Sylwia Klesta said.
She has moved into the common room with her four children, the oldest 9, the youngest just three months old.
Another family, the Ilowski’s, took their children to the in-laws, but there’s not much room for them and it is a temporary arrangement.
We have a village common room by the fire station which we can offer this cause. Because the municipality has no social housing,” said the village prefect Emilia Niemyt.
Ms Niemyt is currently in talks with the owner of the devastated building, Polish State Railways, to encourage them to help accommodate the families.
They are also in material need. They need virtually everything, food, clothing, furniture.
By Victoria Ziarkowski
Freelance Writer
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