the essential
After the fire which destroyed their house in Castres last week, Christelle and her son found accommodation. A great relief for the mother, who underlines the exceptional solidarity shown by the people of Tarn.
The story that started badly will ultimately end well. Christelle and Mattéo, who lost the house they were renting in a fire on December 9 in Castres, have just found accommodation. Goodbye, in a few days, to the small hotel room they occupied. Christelle, who is battling illness at the same time, is relieved: “fortunately in our misfortune, we found wonderful people. For the house, people were not aware of our story. That’s when they read the story in the newspaper that they were hit!”
At the hotel for a week
Back to the facts: during the night from Sunday to last Monday, Christelle was awakened in the middle of the night by the smell of burning, in the small house she shared with her son, behind the exhibition center. An auxiliary radiator would a priori be the cause of the disaster. She was able to wake her son by screaming. They had both gone out, but the mother had gone back inside the house to retrieve her phone and notify emergency services. It was then that she found herself trapped by the flames and smoke, without strength, and her 16-year-old son pulled her out at arm’s length.
“I still don’t realize”
Bedrooms, bathroom, living room, roof, the house was almost destroyed. Uninhabitable, in any case, and many belongings lost forever. Very quickly, Castres solidarity was in full force and Christelle received numerous items of clothing to help her get through the process. Housed in a hotel room in the city center of Castres, the mother and son were quickly dressed from head to toe, so much so that she even asked in our columns for an end to clothing donations, being unable to store them.
Today, Christelle, who should move into the house she found in Castres by Thursday, especially needs furniture. “We found a table, but I don’t have a bed, any lamps… The insurance adjuster hasn’t come yet, so we don’t really know where we’re going.” Mattéo, burned on the face and hands while saving his mother, still suffers from his injuries. Christelle confides for her part “still not realizing. We are still in the heat of the action!”
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