Gambian-born Mohamed Kamra, 58, said his wife and four children are all on ventilators, unable to breath on their own due to smoke inhalation.
“It’s a miracle that my family is still here,” said Gambian-born Mohamed Kamra, 58.
Kamra was working in New Jersey two hours away Sunday when he got word that the apartment building was on fire. By the time he returned to The Bronx, his family had already been rescued from their 15th-floor home by the FDNY and transported to the hospitals — Jabu and her mother to St Barnabas, then Cornell, and the other three children to Jacobi.
His wife, Fotoumatia, is taking more time to heal, which the cabby thinks is because she was more badly injured trying to save their four children. Mariam and one of her brothers, Abubakary, are specials-needs children. Christina Kharem, a social worker on the support team at Mariam’s school, set up a GoFundMe for the family.
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