“I’m just hoping we can all get a new start and start this year off in a different place,” Marilyn Hilo informed WFAA.
WESTWORTH VILLAGE, Texas — More than two weeks in the past, a home explosion in Westworth Village leveled one home and left 5 others uninhabitable.
“Right now, we just… we’re trying to piece everything back together,” Marilyn Hilo informed WFAA Sunday in tears.
She and her brother, Cornelius Aevila, each lived in houses broken by the explosion.
Aevila is now in a Motel 6 together with his fiancé and her 11-year-old daughter, who Aevila stated simply desires a Christmas tree.
“We decorated the house with Halloween decorations, and our plan was to decorate it Christmas,” Aevila stated.
“But Christmas trees right now? I don’t even know where we’re gonna be at. I want to know where we’re gonna be at next week.”
Hilo stated she and her brother are grateful to have one another for the holidays, though they do not have a spot to rejoice.
“I was telling him my birthday is on Tuesday, and it’s like, I’m just grateful that we’re all okay,” she stated.
“It moves you because you appreciate everything a lot more. And it’s like with Christmas coming, I was telling [my brother] my birthday is on Tuesday. And I’m just grateful we’re all okay. I’m just hoping we can get a new start this year and put out lives back together again,” she added.
The household has arrange an online fundraising campaign.
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