His faith in God, promoted an octogenarian to rescue the image of “Child Jesus”, of a house that caught fire in the center of Huancayo. The property with more than 100 years old, which supported the 7.7 earthquake of 1947 and affected the entire Junín region, was damaged by the incident generated on the second floor of a business located in block 12 of Calle Real.
Alarm. The black smoke that came out of the second floor of an ancient property and the flames of fire, alarmed a merchant from block 12 of Calle Real, who sold Mondongo. Desperate he played the door where his sister lives Gonzales who shouted: “fire, fire.”
In the house adjacent to the fire, there were 9 people who went out with what they had. While calling the company’s red men No. 30 of Huancayo’s firefighters. “The fire started on the second floor, there lived a couple in a mini -partment, built in Drywall, in the chifa we have ended up harmed, because by the fire the wall fell and the roofs to the first floor,” said one of the driver of the chifa “La Letter”, whose brother came with the keys and Recover their assets, but they prevented it to prevent it from being injured.
There were about 25 firefighters from Huancayo and El Tambo companies, who worked hard to enter two other adjoining houses, whose roofs burned, had to break with the door and climb the stairs they gave to the second floor that literally fell apart. According to Brigadier Juan Sotelo Loayza, this was the greatest difficulty during the fire.At the side of the Chifa, there are other businesses such as the “El Chef” restaurant by Juan Atencio Suasnabar whose property was also affected by the incident.
Your most precious possession. Theodosia Espejo Palomino (89), is one of the inhabitants of the house built more than a century ago, she said that when she was alerted to the fire, the first thing she thought was to take out the image of the “Child Jesus”, of which he is faithful devote. A lot of faith to my child and the Virgin of Cocharcas.
The other relatives of Theodosia, managed to recover some valuables, impotent, looked at the fire without being able to support the work carried out by the Firefighters of Huancayo, El Tambo, emergency squad of the National Police of Peru and the police station of the jurisdiction.
The head of the Huancayo Fire Company, Kid Sáforas Zúñiga, said it is presumed that the cause of the fire would be a short circuit that occurred on the second floor of the house, which had the mini -partment. They were more than 2 and a half hours of hard work to control the flames left on the street to several families of 3 properties in the city center.
