Donation page set up for fire victims
Published 6:00 am Wednesday, January 2, 2019
- This was the scene of a fatal mobile home fire Saturday in the Four Corners Road area of Jeanerette. Residents have established a donation page to help the family.
JEANERETTE — Local residents have set up a donation page to assist the family whose mobile home burned and a man died in a fire over the weekend.
“Our very own, Sis. Denetra Polidore, lost her son and everything she owned in an early morning fire on December 29th,” according to the donation page. “We’re asking for your assistance in helping her to recover some of those things in which she lost. Any amount you donate would truly be a help to this family in their time of need.”
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You can donate by going to https://www.facebook.com/donate
/293925484661358/. You can also give by texting “DaLightChurch” to “77977” and select the “DaLight Family Restoration” Fund.
St. Mary Parish Fire District #11 responded to the call about the fire in the 100 block of Edward Lane around 7 a.m. on Saturday.
Three adult occupants wjp were in the home at the time of the fire were able to escape. Unfortunately, one of those occupants, 25-year-old Raynell Polidore, re-entered the burning home to retrieve a wallet, but never re-emerged.
His body was discovered later in a bedroom near a closet. An autopsy to determine official cause of death is pending with the St. Mary Parish Coroner’s Office.
Investigators have determined, based on an assessment of the scene and witness statements, the fire began in the kitchen where Polidore had been cooking. Once the fire started, he alerted the rest of the occupants and everyone escaped together.
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The home received smoke alarms three years ago from the local fire department, in partnership with the SFM’s Operation Save-A-Life. However, it is unclear whether the alarms were working at the time of the fire.
Even with the presence of working smoke alarms to alert occupants of a fire danger, the SFM wants to stress the importance of getting out of a burning structure as fast as possible, then staying out.
“No possession is worth risking your life,” said State Fire Marshal H. “Butch” Browning at the time. “The goal is first to do whatever you can to prevent fire. But if you experience fire, the priority is getting out safely. Things can be purchased again. Life cannot.”
