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I'm sure most of you heard the heartbreaking story about the fire in a daycare in Hermosillo, Mexico that claimed the lives of 44 children.
In a discussion in The CafeMom Newcomers Club, many of you are sharing your sadness: "Absolutely heartbreaking." "OMG that is so sad!" "Their families are in our hearts and prayers."
One CafeMom's Journal post says, "a fire is my biggest fear." An anonymous poster in Answers states, "the image of the crib that a one-year old was trapped in is forever engraved in my memory."
Now that three of the burned toddlers — one 2-year old and two 3-year olds — have been moved to Shriners Hospital for Children in my hometown, these kids and their families are on my mind even more. All three children will undergo multiple operations, long hospital stays, and rehabilitation into their adult lives.
There really are no words for such a tragedy. We can only hope for the kids' courage and their families' strength and thank the doctors for all the work ahead.
These kinds of news stories tend to rile up all of our parental anxieties and fears. Has this story shaken you? What's on your mind?
Comments (4)
When I heard about this, it was heartbreaking and frustrating both. Heartbreaking because of the loss of life and families torn apart; frustrating because so many of the reader comments in the newspaper around here were focused on WHY the US would bother to help these children on US taxpayer money. That's what riles me up - the inhumanity of so many Americans who can't even understand compassion overrides everything else, especially cost. But honestly, the stories about the fire didn't increase my parental anxiety for my son, who's in full-time day care nearly as much as the stories of people walking into daycares and deliberately killing the children - THAT scares the crud out of me because you always think that something like THAT can't happen here...but it can. Fire is always a real possiblity - whether at home or at school - but death by gunfire is such a gross, deliberate act of horror that it's almost unimaginable, and yet becoming more and more common across the globe. THAT scares me.
I'm not delivering criticism, I would hope that I'm wrong but It pains me that something couldn't or wasn't done to PREVENT this. What about firecodes and all that? I worked in a daycare that had a private exit (under surveilance of course) in EACH classroom and that every teacher had to account for each child in her class. We rehearsed firedrills with the kids. Even the toddlers understood and took them seriously. The baby room was the job of every other staff member/office personnel without a class. Nothing like that COULD have happened. It is every societies responsibility to protect our children in every way possible. I hope that the death of these precious babies will bring change in every country around the world. We owe that to them and their families. How sad....I can't even imagine..
this story breaks my heart. what a nightmare. :(
fairytalemommy I hate to tell you this but you are right. I've been to Hermosillo my moms side of the family lives over there and I know how it is. It is very different from here in the states my grandmother has to go to the docs office nobody is there to take her and she has daughters and sons who dont give a crap about her. I know most likely they don't have fire drills or anything like that out there. There is just not enough money to do everything the way they want to. Their hospitals over there are no good compared to here. It's a very different world out there just south of the border, it's just so tragic those kids had to go through that and their families.