“My mother was more relieved to see that the girl was all right over a video call,” she says. cm Luis Filipe Sousa, a 26-year-old hero father who climbed onto the roof of his house to save his two-year-old daughter from a fire in Montijo. The girl was admitted to Barreiro Hospital, but her discharge was delayed until Friday due to flu-like symptoms. The grandmother is recovering from burns sustained “on her back and legs when she grabbed the girl to put her on the roof.”
On Tuesday, a young widower – his wife died two months ago, a victim of a heart attack, leaving him with four children aged nine months to six – was admitted to Montijo’s ward looking for a solution to a housing problem. Luis currently lives in an orphanage with his three children and shares with his cm a wave of solidarity that reached the bar in Montijo accepting donations. “They have already given us clothes, toys, food and financial donations, but I can’t accept more things without having a home to store them,” he concludes.
He is “stable and can talk,” Luis shares.
Author: Catarina Cascarrigno and Francis Laranjo
Source: CM Jornal
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