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Incluye nota nacional, nota extraida del noticiero local Hechos Noche de TV Azteca, hasta el momento se presentan 35 menores fallecidos a causa del tragico incendio ocurrido en la guarderia ABC en la Ciudad de Hermosillo.
Los heridos fueron transladados a hospitales de Ciudad Obregón, Guadaluajara y Arizona.
El fuego arraso con todo causando la muerte de varios niños y decenas de heridos.
Video subido por: http://www.PlazaObregon.com
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ERMOSILLO, Mexico – Sobbing relatives waited outside a morgue Saturday to claim the bodies of 35 children killed in a day care fire in northern Mexico despite desperate attempts to evacuate babies and toddlers through the building’s only working exit. One father crashed his pickup truck through the wall to rescue his child.
One family buried 2-year-old Maria Magdalena Millan, dropping white roses onto her tiny coffin and attaching a Dora the Explorer balloon to the cross marking her grave.
"I love you and I don’t want to leave you here!" her mother screamed.
Delfina Ruelas, 60, said her grandchild German Leon died of his burns Saturday morning, three days after his fourth birthday. She and her husband saw television news reports that the ABC day care was on fire Friday and rushed over that evening.
"I thought he wasn’t that burned and that we would find him OK, but he was very burned," said Ruelas, dissolving into tears outside the morgue in the northern city of Hermosillo, where she waited along with 30 other relatives. "They operated on him yesterday, and he held on, but today he couldn’t hold on."
Firefighters carried injured children through the front door — the building’s only working exit — and through large holes that a civilian knocked into the walls before rescue crews arrived, according to a fire department official who spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to speak publicly about the fire.
Noe Velasquez, an employee at a nearby auto parts store who helped pull out five toddlers, said the father of one of the children rammed his pickup truck through a wall. Velasquez did not know if the man’s child survived.
"I didn’t sleep last night. I’ve never gone through anything like that in all my life," he said.
The tragedy once again raised questions about building safety in Mexico: Officials cracked down on code violations following a deadly stampede at a nightclub last year and a fire at a disco nine years ago.
A May 26 inspection found that the day care building — a converted warehouse with a few windows mounted high up — complied with safety standards, said Daniel Karam, the director of Mexico’s Social Security Institute, which outsourced services to the privately run day care.
Asked if the single functioning exit constituted a safety code violation, Karam only repeated that the building had passed the inspection, although he conceded that the security requirements might have to be re-evaluated.
"We always have to be open to improvements, especially when we have a tragedy that has so moved us," Karam said.
Guadalupe Arvizu, who was visiting her injured 2-year-old grandson at a hospital, said the building has an emergency exit but it could not be opened on the day of the fire. She did not know why.
"The place is in bad condition. It’s a warehouse. There are no windows in the classrooms," said Arvizu, whose daughter — the boy’s mother — is a caretaker at the day care but was not injured in the fire.
The death toll rose to 35 after several children died overnight. At least 41 children and six adults were hospitalized, Sonora state Gov. Eduardo Bours said. The adults included staffers at the day care and civilians who tried to help. Some of the children had third-degree burns, the Hermosillo fire department official said.
There were an estimated 142 children in the day care at the time, with ages ranging from 6 months to 5 years, and six staffers to look after them, Bours said at a news conference Saturday.
The ratio is in keeping with legal standards, Karam said.
A 3-year-old girl with burns over 80 percent of her body was sent by military transport to be treated at Shriners Hospital for Children Northern California, said Carlos Gonzalez Gutierrez, Consul General for Mexico based in Sacramento.
The girl’s injuries could require months of treatment, which will be free of charge, Gonzalez Gutierrez said. One parent is traveling with the girl, and will be housed nearby.
"It’s going to be challenging. The survivability is about 50 percent. A lot of it is how deep the burn is and where it’s located and how bad is the smoke inhalation," said Dr. Tina Palmieri, assistant chief of burns for Shriners’.
Others were sent to a hospital in the western Mexico city of Guadalajara that has a special burn unit.
Velasquez said he and several other people rushed to the day care when they saw smoke. Teachers already had lined up some of the children outside but the very smallest were trapped inside, some of them in their cribs. Velasquez said he pulled out limp toddlers without knowing if they were dead or alive.
The fire started at an adjoining tire and car warehouse leased by the state government, Bours said. The blaze eventually spread to the roof of the day care, sending flames raining down on the children, according to the fire department official.
Firefighters took two hours to control the blaze, the cause of which was still u
what do you guys think of this?
boy they sure don’t inspect daycare facilities like we do in the US our prison and mental health institutions have to have more exits than their daycare centers
incendio en la guarderia abc de hermosillo sonora tragedia nacional descansen en paz estos angelitos ios bendiga a cada una de todas las personas que aportaron para hacer de esta carga un poco menos pesada
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Hey I am a Junior in High School living in the U.S. I have a Mexican friend who used to be real close in Arizona and he went down to Mexico to live for a year. He wants me to come visit him over and I am pretty excited (planning on going over during December) about it since I’ve never been to Mexico. Thing is, what is there to do? I love burritos and tacos and hope to eat some nice Mexican food there. Can you give me some details about that place? What’s the food like? Are things cheaper there than U.S? How safe is that place? Also, what are the restrictions on the drinking policy? (I’m 17, am I underage in Mexico?) What are some things to do in Mexico other than just eat food? lol. Any places I should go in Hermosillo? Give me some experiences if you’ve been there, thanks.
I’m riding a plane there from LA, CA and going to ride a bus back from Mexico to Arizona. I will be staying for 3-4 days.
Watch this video to see what it looks like:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B3ehLdL_Avk
Illegal sent home after "free" treatment in Ariz.
Chris Hawley
Republic Mexico City Bureau
Mar. 17, 2008 12:00 AM
ECATEPEC, Mexico - When the motorcycle that illegal immigrant Laura Velázquez was riding slammed into a concrete wall, it cost a Phoenix hospital $478,000 to save her life.
The hospital is footing the bill. But Velázquez’s life in America is finished after hospital officials sent her back to Mexico.
Velázquez’s story is an example of what happens when uninsured illegal immigrants need medical care, a problem that costs American hospitals and taxpayers millions of dollars each year. It’s a critical issue, because a federal program aimed at reimbursing hospitals is scheduled to disappear at the end of this year. advertisement
But Velázquez’s case also shows how innocent people can get ensnared in the illegal-immigration controversy. Velázquez, now 22, never asked to come to the United States; she was brought as a child. She wasn’t driving the motorcycle; she was only a passenger.
Her journey home has attracted the attention of Mexico’s national media. Government officials in Ecatepec, her hometown on the outskirts of Mexico City, say she should have been allowed to recover in Phoenix, and they have accused the United States of indifference.
Velázquez, meanwhile, lies in a dim, windowless room in a relative’s home in Ecatepec and thinks about how things used to be.
"I want to walk again," she said, her voice a whisper because of a tracheotomy tube. "I want to go home."
Twist of fate
When Velázquez was 11 years old, she and her mother climbed into a car trunk in Nogales, Sonora, and emerged again in Arizona.
They moved to Laveen with her father, a landscaping worker. Velázquez learned English, attended Summit High School and had two children with her high-school sweetheart. She worked off and on at a furniture store, processing credit applications.
On Jan. 26, a neighbor invited her for a ride on his motorcycle.
What happened next is unclear. The Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office, the Arizona Department of Public Safety and the Phoenix Police Department have no record of the crash. Velázquez remembers little, her family says.
But whatever happened, it was violent. When an ambulance brought her to St. Joseph’s Hospital and Medical Center in Phoenix, her upper spine was snapped, her left lung was collapsed, and her left leg and arm were broken.
Paramedics reported that the motorcycle had hit a concrete wall, said Margaret McBride, the hospital’s vice president of mission services. The driver escaped with minor injuries, said Velázquez’s mother, Estela Loera.
For days, Velázquez fought for her life.
"The patient has been medically unstable," doctors’ notes said. "Surgery has been canceled multiple times."
In all, Velázquez underwent three operations to repair her spine, mend her bones and install breathing tubes.
Costly care
No one is sure how much uninsured illegal immigrants like Velázquez cost the United States, according to a 2004 report by the U.S. Government Accountability Office. That’s because hospitals usually don’t ask patients about their immigration status.
But a study by the Border Counties Coalition estimated that illegal immigrants accounted for more than $200 million of the $845 million in unpaid medical and ambulance bills in 2002 at hospitals along the U.S.-Mexican border.
By law, hospitals must treat emergency medical patients until they are healthy enough to be discharged.
The cost is a serious burden for hospitals in border states. Some have had to cut back on other services.
"I’ve had to close my OB department down, I’ve had to close my long-term-care facility down, because the drain on the resources doesn’t allow it," said Jim Dickson, administrator of Copper Queen Community Hospital in Bisbee. "We’re into rationing because of the uncompensated (care)."
Under pressure from lawmakers in border states, in 2003 the federal government set aside $250 million a year to reimburse hospitals for illegal-immigrant care.
But the program applies only to the first two or three days of care, and the program expires at the end of this year. Hospital trade groups are lobbying to get it renewed.
As Velázquez’s tab grew, hospital officials knew they would never get the money back, McBride said. So they declared her a charity case, essentially forgiving her $478,000 bill.
Last year, St. Joseph’s spent $17 million on such charity cases, immigrants and U.S. citizens alike.
"Ultimately, it does cost the community," McBride said. "It affects the programs we can offer, the technology we can buy, the raises we can give employees."
Hospital officials knew another problem was on the horizon: Velázquez would need long-term care. Without insurance or legal residency, no U.S. hospital would take her. Mexico, however, has government-run hospitals and a free, if rudimentary, socialized medical system.
Coming home
Velázquez arrived in Hermosillo, capital of the northern Mexican state of Sonora, in an aircraft chartered by St. Joseph’s. In her immigration photo, blue-and-white breathing tubes cover her face.
Relatives went to the Ecatepec government for help bringing Velázquez the remaining 1,000 miles home. That’s how the Mexican press learned about her case.
"Woman deported in vegetative state," read a headline in the newspaper El Universal. "Hospital that treated her reported her as illegal," read one in El Gráfico. "(Mexican) federal authorities did nothing," El Milenio added.
The stories exaggerated. Velásquez wasn’t in a vegetative state, her family says. She can talk a little and move her head, arms and toes. She wasn’t deported, either: McBride said St. Joseph’s never had any contact with immigration officials.
But at a time when the United States is building border fences and cracking down on illegal immigrants, the story of the comatose woman kicked out by the Americans quickly spread around Mexico. None of the articles mentioned the free medical care.
The Ecatepec government looked into flying her home, but no airline would take a patient in such grave condition, said Osmar León, a city councilman who chairs the health committee. A chartered jet was out of the question: It would have cost $40,000, one-tenth of the city’s entire health budget, he said.
And so Velázquez was loaded into an ambulance for a 26-hour ride across Mexico.
She cost Arizona taxpayers $478,000 DOLLARS!!! This is what only ONE illegal has cost Arizona taxpayers!! Is it any WONDER that we do NOT want them here?
"But a study by the Border Counties Coalition estimated that illegal immigrants accounted for more than $200 million of the $845 million in unpaid medical and ambulance bills in 2002 at hospitals along the U.S.-Mexican border."
So $645 million dollars in unpaid medical debt is incurred by Americans…what can we do about them?
La primera dama ha reconocido el parentezco con la co-propietaria de la Guardería ABC de Hermosillo, Sonora pero declarado que no la conoce. Una nota de sociales del diario El Imparcial de Hermosillo relata que ambas estuvieron juntas en el pleaños de la madre de la esposa de Felipe Calderón.
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TUCSON, Ariz. — A Mexican citizen was sentenced Tuesday to nearly five years in federal prison in connection with an assault on a U.S. Border Patrol agent last year.
Prosecutors say 20-year-old Luis Alberto Barron-Sanchez of Hermosillo, Sonora, was sentenced to 57 months after pleading guilty in the case on Jan. 30.
Authorities say Barron-Sanchez was driving a vehicle that contained four illegal immigrants on Jan. 24, 2008, when he was stopped by a Border Patrol agent conducting an immigration check. They say Barron-Sanchez refused to turn off the ignition and when the agent reached in to do so, Barron-Sanchez sped away.
The agent got caught between the passenger door and the frame of the vehicle, but was able to take out his service weapon and shoot Barron-Sanchez in the leg to get him to stop the vehicle.
Authorities say Barron-Sanchez was arrested and the agent suffered some injuries that he has since recovered from. http://www.thesunnews.com/253/story/999862.html
Well, maybe the agent should have aimed for that idiot`s head instead of his leg, it would have been more appreciated by U.S. taxpayers who will have to be shelling out over 20K. each year to keep that degenerate criminal in Fed. Pen. for next 5 years..
Since long ago when i have seen a plenty of movie trailers, and when the movie finally arrives i have noted that some scenes are not in the movie. The last one was in "Quantum of Solace" trailer, where you can see the character Vesper Lynd (Eva Green, who appeared in "Casino Royale") in a scene where she is underwater, like drowning or something, this scene does not appear in the movie. Here, in Hermosillo, Sonora, Mexico, we can actually see the trailer for Mexico and for the USA as well. This is only one example, i think it really happens a lot of times… is it?
The movies change around a little because of what the government allows you to see and also the movies get edited after trailers are released so they might edit something out that was in a trailer
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