Family faces injury, difficuly after San Elizario home destroyed by fire
A family is struggling to recover after a fire in San Elizario caused serious injuries and destroyed their home Wednesday morning.
“They were trapped in the mobile home, so the only option was for them to go straight through the flames because they were trapped,” said Lupe Maldonado, sister of Angel Carrillo and aunt of Jenny Carrillo injured in the fire, on the phone from Lubbock. “So there was no other way to save each other.”
Angel was flown to Lubbock for treatment of burns across 15 percent of his body. But Jenny, with second degree burns on her face and arms and third degree burns to her feet, was released from University Medical Center later Wednesday and sent home.
“They wrapped her up, they covered her wounds, and released her,” Maldonado said. “Once I got her home, I tried my best to clean her up and then to clean her wounds. But unfortunately, those types of burns were not for me – I’m not a professional. I’m not a doctor. So the minute she was with me that one day, her face started to – blistering real bad.”
Maldonado took her niece to Providence, and said with the help of staff and social workers was able to get assistance and get her to Lubbock for burn treatment as well Friday night.
“Thank God, everything was approved,” Maldonado said. “I don’t know how, but God works in mysterious ways. So I’m here in Lubbock taking care of her and my brother, they’re both here. And from here, they’re both getting the treatment that they deserved and that they needed immediately.”
The family doesn’t have insurance, but said they have gotten an outpouring of support from the community. They’re working on setting up accounts now for anyone that may want to help.
