Rebecca Mouton, her daughter and her son-in-law woke up not knowing where their next meal would come from, if they would have clean clothes, or if they would have somewhere to lay their heads after a Tuesday morning fire.
Mouton says the fire happened around 2 a.m. this morning, Jan. 18. She is disabled and is on a breathing machine. If she hadn’t woken up to get something to drink in the night, she may not have be alive to tell her story.
“Thank God the fire didn’t go to my living room, because that’s where the seven [oxygen] tanks were,” said Mouton. “If that would’ve happened, the entire block would have blew.”
She says once detectives investigated the home, they labeled it ‘unlivable.’ She had been living in the home for almost two years.
“They are going to bulldoze the house down,” said Mouton. “They are not going to try and fix it.”