Archived very sad.....15 children killed in Haiti orphanage fire (cbsnews.com)
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Archived very sad.....15 children killed in Haiti orphanage fire (cbsnews.com)
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Port-au-Prince, Haiti — At least 15 children were killed when a fire swept through a Haitian children's home run by a Pennsylvania-based religious nonprofit group, officials said Friday. Rose-Marie Louis, a child-care worker at the home, said that the fire began around 9 p.m. Thursday and firefighters took about 90 minutes to arrive.
About half of those who died were babies or toddlers and the others were roughly 10 or 11 years old, Louis said. The orphanage had been using candles for light due to problems with its generator and inverter, she said.
Late Friday afternoon, police raided another home also run by the Church of Bible Understanding and took away several dozen children in a bus over protests from employees. The fire happened at the group's orphanage in the Kenscoff area outside Port-au-Prince, the Haitian capital.
"It could have been me," said Renadin Mondeline, a 22-year-old who lived in the home with her son, now 6, for about two years until she started making enough money as a street vendor to start renting her own place to live last year. "These little girls inside were just like my baby."