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Tuesday, July 15, 2025

Burke family overwhelmed by public's support after tragedy

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Rhondor Dowlat-Rostant
1447 days ago
20210728
Onlookers watch as Fire officers attempt to extinguish a fire that calmed the lives of three children at their home at Rookery Nook, Maraval on Monday.

Onlookers watch as Fire officers attempt to extinguish a fire that calmed the lives of three children at their home at Rookery Nook, Maraval on Monday.

ANISTO ALVES

Days af­ter Mon­day's fiery tragedy in which three young chil­dren were killed, sev­er­al good Samar­i­tans in­clud­ing a neigh­bour and M&M In­sur­ance Ser­vices Ltd have come to­geth­er to of­fer sup­port to the Burke fam­i­ly who suf­fered unimag­in­able pain and loss.

And the sur­viv­ing mem­bers of the fam­i­ly are said to be "grate­ful" and thank­ful for the sup­port of the pub­lic.

On Mon­day, Ezekiel Burke 17, Faith Burke, six, and Kay­den Burke, three per­ished when their home along Rook­ery Nooke was gut­ted by fire.

Guardian Me­dia was told yes­ter­day that M&M In­sur­ance Ser­vices Ltd is the fa­ther's Troy Burke’s em­ploy­er and have been ral­ly­ing around him since the tragedy.

RBC’s Mar­aval branch, which is lo­cat­ed near to the home, an­nounced that mon­e­tary do­na­tions can be de­posit­ed in­to the fol­low­ing ac­count:

Ac­count Name: Do­na­tion Ac­count-For Burke Fam­i­ly

Ac­count #: 110000004490792 (chequing ac­count)

Speak­ing with the Guardian Me­dia on Wednes­day, a neigh­bour Blayne Gomez said al­though they are still reel­ing with emo­tions over Mon­day's tragedy he and two of his friends came to­geth­er and start­ed up a do­na­tion dri­ve for the fam­i­ly.

Gomez said be­cause of the over­whelm­ing re­sponse they re­ceived for the sur­viv­ing fam­i­ly mem­bers, they are now fo­cus­ing on con­tri­bu­tions that can help the fam­i­ly re­build a home.

"The re­sponse we got so far is over­whelm­ing and we thank the pub­lic for their kind­ness that they have pro­ject­ed to­wards the fam­i­ly at this time but we are now look­ing for more fi­nan­cial help for them and fur­ni­ture and ap­pli­ances so who­ev­er can as­sist in this way please feel free to do so."

He said the Burkes are aware of the sup­port.

"The fam­i­ly is over­whelmed with the grate­ful­ness and sup­port and thanks the peo­ple who are help­ing," Gomez said.

Mean­while, the in­ter­im re­port on Mon­day's dead­ly fire is now in the hands of the Chief Fire Of­fi­cer, how­ev­er, fire of­fi­cials have not dis­closed the pre­lim­i­nary find­ings as to what caused the fire and its ori­gin.

Speak­ing to the Guardian Me­dia al­so on Wednes­day Chief Fire Of­fi­cer Arnold Bris­to con­firmed that he did re­ceive the in­ter­im re­port.

He, how­ev­er, not­ed that the in­ves­ti­ga­tions fi­nal re­port is yet to be re­ceived.

Any­one will­ing to help the fam­i­ly can de­posit funds in­to the RBC's ac­count or con­tact Blayne 377 2019; Aman­da 273 9358 or Do­minique 725 1702.


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