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The Kabesha family from Brixton have had their world turned upside down after a firework flew through an open window and started a blaze that destroyed their flat.
Jonathan, his wife Wivine and four children have been placed in temporary accommodation following this devastating incident that resulted in the family losing all their possessions.
Mr Kabesha was watching televised hymns with 17-month-old Tabitha and son Emmanuel, five, while his wife Wivine and daughter Eunice, 12, were cooking in the kitchen when the firework shot through the window on Sunday last week. He said he heard “a really loud bang” and within two minutes the whole dining room was on fire.
After the family had left the flat, his wife, a care assistant at King’s College Hospital, realised that the gas hob was still burning, so Mr Kabesha ran back in to turn off the cooker.
He said: “I felt I had a duty to my community to make sure there was not a gas explosion … I ran inside, ran to the kitchen and then ran outside again. By that point the fire had spread and I could feel it on my back.
The family have now found themselves at the beginning of a journey to rebuild not only their home but their lives.
To donate furniture, household items, clothing, books, toys etc please contact [email redacted].uk
https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/7585385/familys-home-devastated-by-blaze-after-firework-flew-through-fourth-floor-flat-window-in-targeted-attack/
Jonathan, his wife Wivine and four children have been placed in temporary accommodation following this devastating incident that resulted in the family losing all their possessions.
Mr Kabesha was watching televised hymns with 17-month-old Tabitha and son Emmanuel, five, while his wife Wivine and daughter Eunice, 12, were cooking in the kitchen when the firework shot through the window on Sunday last week. He said he heard “a really loud bang” and within two minutes the whole dining room was on fire.
After the family had left the flat, his wife, a care assistant at King’s College Hospital, realised that the gas hob was still burning, so Mr Kabesha ran back in to turn off the cooker.
He said: “I felt I had a duty to my community to make sure there was not a gas explosion … I ran inside, ran to the kitchen and then ran outside again. By that point the fire had spread and I could feel it on my back.
The family have now found themselves at the beginning of a journey to rebuild not only their home but their lives.
To donate furniture, household items, clothing, books, toys etc please contact [email redacted].uk
https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/7585385/familys-home-devastated-by-blaze-after-firework-flew-through-fourth-floor-flat-window-in-targeted-attack/
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Jonathan Kabesha
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