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The victims
were four Costa
Ricans, among them one boy
of 2 years old, plus three
Nicaraguans, including a 3
year old boy.
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Costa Rican Firefighters
courtesy photo
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National Emergency Commission
is supporting
families of seven victims of
building fire in La Carpio
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By
the A.M. Costa Rica
staff
The National Emergency
Commission announced that is
giving support to the families
of the seven victims who died in
a fire on Saturday in the
community of La Carpio*
in San José.
Sigifredo Perez, chief of
operations of the Commission,
said that through the
Psycho-social Support Technical
Advisory Committee, specialists
are providing therapeutic
support to the families of the
victims.
The Commission will take the
steps to send a list of victims’
family members to the Institute
of Social Assistance, which
handles these cases.
The Institute evaluates cases of
people in extreme poverty giving
assistance in basic needs such
as food, transportation,
clothing, payment of basic
services, expenses for funeral
services, house rent, household
goods, and medicines, among
others.
Firefighters report that they
got the 9-1-1 call on Saturday
at 3:54 a.m. The stations of
Pavas, San José Central, Barrio
Mexico, and Coronado were sent
to the site where " the
firefighters found a
550-square-meter building that
was a ‘cuartería’ and also to
stored construction materials,"
said the Firefighters’ report.
The "cuarterias" are small
buildings or houses, usually
made of wood, where rooms are
for rent.
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Hector
Chaves said the
victims were "
four Costa
Ricans, among
them one boy of
2 years old,
plus three
Nicaraguans,
including a 3
year old boy."
The Emergency
Commission
reported that
housing was not
required for the
families, since
"relatives and
neighbors of the
community gave
shelter to
them.”
Firefighter's
statistics
indicate that
this fire
registered the
largest number
of victims since
2005.
In that year, 17
people died
burned to death
in in a fire set
at the Calderon Guardia Hospital* in San José. Two years
later, in 2007,
the Courts of
Justice found a
nurse surnamed
Ledezma Sánchez,
guilty of having
caused the fire.
He was sentenced
to 20 years in
prison.
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the cuarteria
owner be held
responsible for
the seven
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