The journalist gave details of how she found out about the sad news: “I turn on the TV, I put on TN and I see the fire in my town, Dolores de Punilla. I was deeply afraid: “the camera started panning and it reached my house, my mom’s family’s house.”
“Imagine that I spent the whole morning talking to the people of the town, with my friends, with my cousins, with everyone who is there, but I didn’t think the fire would reach such intensity,” revealed in dialogue with the media TV show.
In turn, he stated that he was communicating with Patricia Sosa, since she is also a neighbor there and is worried about the situation.
Mercedes Ninci’s house in Dolores de Punilla
“It’s very hard because I had a pretty sad childhood and when we went to Dolores, it was like everything was reborn.everything shined, everything… We got together with our whole family and friends, every year. Februarys are sacred to us “in Flor de Durazno (name of the house). My children love it too. It’s tremendous because it doesn’t go much beyond the material,” she added, explaining what it felt like to see her home burn down.
Regarding the name of the home, Ninci explained: “That house is called ‘Flor de Durazno’ in homage to a novel that my great-uncle wrote, Hugo Guastwho was a writer, and whose real name was Gustavo Martínez Subiría”, expanded on the subject: “The first film that Gardel made was filmed in the town, which was called Flor de Durazno.. There, in the background, is Eiffel’s windmill and a historic church that is almost 400 years old. Just last weekend we had been to the festival of the Virgin and we prayed for rain.”
Prior to this, the journalist spoke with TNand could not hold back his tears: “I’m very sick, I was looking at the images and the pink house they just showed, the one in front of the square is ours, sorry, but I feel really bad, it’s terrible. “It’s the house where I’ve been happy all my life.”
She also said that her house was not the only one that was affected by the fire, but also that of her lifelong caretaker. “Nati is the caretaker of our house, she is divine. She is the woman who cooked for us all our lives. They were evacuated a little while ago and are at the summit”frame.
He also said that he was there over the weekend, but that he returned on Monday to work: “I know everything because I am talking to people all the time,” and regarding the fires he explained: “It hasn’t rained for a long time, we asked Our Lady of Sorrows for it to rain.”
“The night before last my cousin’s husband told me “I was told that the town had started to burn, and she sent me a video. Patricia Sosa told me at three in the morning, but then the fire stopped,” she explained, also recalling that when she was a child the town was surrounded by flames.
“I remember that the fire devoured 10 pine trees in seconds, it was impressive. At that time, there were no firefighting planes. So we would carry buckets in the square and fill the firefighters’ backpacks with them.“We put out the fires ourselves,” he recalled of that occasion.
Source: Ambito
