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Texas family without sense of smell escapes house fire

Title (Dublin Core)

Texas family without sense of smell escapes house fire

Description (Dublin Core)

WACO, Texas -- A Texas family suffering the effects of COVID-19 is safe after their home caught fire, and they weren't able to smell the smoke.

Fortunately, a fourth family member, a 17-year-old girl, was able to alert her three relatives and get them to safety.

The one-story home caught fire in Waco Friday morning with four people inside.

Three people at the home where Bianca Rivera lives lost their sense of smell due to the virus and were oblivious to the danger that was consuming the structure. The teen told KWTX-TV she smelled something burning around 2 a.m.

"I started smelling burnt plastic, and that's when I got more alert and ran outside of my room," Rivera told the station. "I couldn't even pass the hallway because it was filled with so much smoke."

"I would just do whatever anyone else would do for their own family," Rivera told KWTX. "I just wanted to get everyone else safe and alive that's all I wanted that's all I wanted was to keep everyone alive. I don't really count myself a hero."

The family members escaped with their lives, but weren't able to save much else. The Red Cross and other relatives are helping the family as they recover from COVID-19 and a destroyed home.

Date (Dublin Core)

January 16, 2021

Creator (Dublin Core)

ABC7News

Contributor (Dublin Core)

Dana Bell

Event Identifier (Dublin Core)

HST580

Partner (Dublin Core)

Arizona State University

Type (Dublin Core)

Article

Link (Bibliographic Ontology)

https://abc7news.com/9713104/?fbclid=IwAR2XJtvU8FZdIQviqRWCX5se46rVrjSgsHjgeX
https://web.archive.org/web/20210925183144/https://abc7news.com/9713104/

Publisher (Dublin Core)

ABC7News

Controlled Vocabulary (Dublin Core)

English Home & Family Life
English Health & Wellness
English News coverage

Curator's Tags (Omeka Classic)

home
family
daughter
smell
sense
news
Waco
Texas

Contributor's Tags (a true folksonomy) (Friend of a Friend)

Texas
COVID-19
fire
house fire
recover
Red Cross
smell

Collection (Dublin Core)

Survivor Stories

Linked Data (Dublin Core)

HST 580 Professional Experience/Archives course

Date Submitted (Dublin Core)

04/04/2021

Date Modified (Dublin Core)

09/25/2021
08/02/2022
09/09/2024

Date Created (Dublin Core)

01/16/2021

Item sets

Covid 19

This item was submitted on April 4, 2021 by Dana Bell using the form “Share Your Story” on the site “A Journal of the Plague Year”: https://covid-19archive.org/s/archive

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