Investigators have yet to determine the cause of the blaze that claimed the lives off all seven children from the Barho family
All that remains at the grim site on Quartz Drive is the concrete foundation.Photos on social media show a huge mound of stuffed toys piled against a utility pole on the property’s edge.
Snook, who was left badly shaken by the tragedy, said she had planned on setting aside a few moments to pause outside the home, pay her respects and seek some form of closure. But with her family to care for and a constant stream of curious onlookers on the street, she never got around to that simple ritual.
“I needed to go there to have a moment … I never had an opportunity because there’s been a parade of people coming and going,” she said in an interview Wednesday. “I wanted a bit of a private moment. But there’s been no privacy at all … People come and go from the front and the back non-stop.”Story continues below advertisementHowever, she said many of those who showed up to gaze upon the wrecked house probably had good reasons for doing so.“We’re tangible, physical beings. When something like this happens, that punctures people to the very core of what it means to be human.
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