A Kwekwe was left homeless after their family house was
destroyed by fire on Tuesday night.
The Moyce family of number 9 Grey Street Glenwood Kwekwe
was left stranded without food, clothing or property after their house, worth a
million dollars was destroyed by fire. They only retrieved two bibles still
intact out of the ashes.
Speaking to H-Metro, Vincent Moyce who witnessed the fire
right from the start, narrated the tragedy which befell his family.
“It was on Tuesday night and there was no electricity so we
were preparing to go to bed using candle as our source of light at around 11pm,
so my kids were in the bedroom using candles and I was out of the bedroom
helping one of my kids who was not feeling well.
“One of the kids who was in the bedroom then alerted me
about the fire in the bedroom so I rushed in there and found the mattress and
the curtain burning I tried to put off the fire on the mattress but my efforts
were in vain as the ceiling of the house also caught fire.
“I awakened everyone in the house because the situation was
getting out of hand; things started to explode in the house and sounded like
gunshots such that our neighbours thought that someone was firing gunshots.
“We connected the hosepipe and tried to put off the fire
whilst our neighbors also tried to get in touch with fire brigade which arrived
late because the fire had already destroyed our property,” said Moyce.
Vincent’s brother Thomas Moyce who is still coming to terms
with what happened appealed for help from well-wishers in cash or kind to
rebuild their house and clothe the children since everything was burnt to
ashes.
“The tragedy has been a huge setback on us because we lost
some things of sentimental value which we cannot recover because everything was
burnt; our property was burnt we did not retrieve anything except two bibles.
“We are kindly appealing to well wishers to help us with
building materials so that we can rebuild our house because right now we are
homeless.
“We need clothes, food, blankets and every basic commodity
that is needed for a person to live because we just came out of the house empty
handed,” said Thomas.
Everyone came out of the house alive and no one was
injured, however, the family lost valuable documents such as certificates and
children’s birth certificates. H Metro
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