Kefalonia: “Fight the fire and for one step he didn’t get out of the house” the 42-year-old mother

“She probably tried to put her out but lost consciousness and was burned,” says the brother-in-law of the 42-year-old mother of the three children who burned in her house in the area. Sami in . A family tragedy with the loss of a young woman occurred this morning (21/01/2025) in Kefalonia. Around 10:30 the fire department was called to go to a two-story residence in Sami, where a fire had broken out in the ground floor apartment. CORVERSE Three vehicles with six firefighters reached the point and immediately tried to contain the flames. When firefighters entered the interior of the apartment they were faced with an appalling sight. 42 – year – old Hera was fallen and burned behind the door of the house. It was like he wanted to escape from the burning apartment, but he did not make it. “No one knows what happened, the house caught fire in seconds. From what we understood, he probably tried to put out the fire and at some point he couldn’t breathe anymore. So there’s no way she tried to leave because we found her behind the door door. He didn’t make it out for one step. He must have fought at first with the fire and instead of getting up to leave,” says the brother-in-law of the unfortunate Hera and continuing adds: “ The fire is said to have been caused by a device, we still don’t know. They found her almost charred. My brother is now a finished man, how can he be… We can’t believe what’s happened, her kids have learned it, they’re asking for their mother, they’ve come for child psychologists to help them. The fire took place around 9:30 this morning. I talked to Hera and Michael before I left for a job. When we found out, we went straight home, it was the fire department and the police, the door was opened by the neighbors in case they could, but they didn’t make it. My brother sucks, the doctors gave him shots, he’s in another world. They were a very favorite couple, the whole area talks about her, she knew all of Kefalonia.” “I saw her this morning, she was a working girl and always made jokes” For his part, a friend of the couple speaks with the best words about the wrongful girl and her family. “After a lot of trouble people dealt with building, they built a house. In the summer they rented some houses they had built, lived in a studio next to us. Hera was a very working girl, in the morning I saw Hera, she came to the supermarket and did her shopping, she was a very pleasant man and always made jokes. She has three children, the little girl the big 16 is disabled and has even a little boy 14 and a little girl 12 who goes primary school” says the couple’s friend and continues adding: “The neighbors said they smelled smoke around 9:00 a.m. but they saw the fire at 10:30. The family is in a terrible state, she’s shocked. I saw them earlier and all her husband was thinking about telling the kids. Now they’re looking for child psychologists to see how they’re gonna tell them. Hera worked for 15 years in a supermarket and was also cleaning houses, and this year she was also in the municipality for a few hours to clean up when she had time. They found her near the balcony door of the living room, right in front was the couch that has burned half” The preliminary investigation of the causes and conditions under which the fire broke out has been undertaken by the fire department, its finding expected to come out in the following period.