A family is doing their best to keep it together after losing their daughter and their home within a matter of months.
Firefighters responded to the home on Ohai Place in Wahiawa.The family said they lost everything.
“We worked really hard to make sure we kept those memories of her and now I don’t really have any of those memories of her,” Mark Ronquillo said.In their burned-out home, they found her urn. But everything she was remembered by was gone.“I’m not trying to think about it as much because I keep breaking down,” Mark Ronquillo said. “I don’t want to keep doing that.”Dennis Ronquillo, Aria Belen Ronquillo’s father, recalled what happened moments before the fire destroyed their home.
“My wife was cooking on the stove and when the grandson called her, she went to go see what’s going on, the stove burst into flames,” he said.“Losing my daughter in August... [My grandson] could have perished, my wife could have perished, I could have lost so much that it was unbearable,” he said. Police said Aria Belen Ronquillo was walking on the H-2 Freeway when she apparently stepped into the lanes of traffic and was struck by a vehicle around 4:15 a.m.“Me and my family are speculating and questioning as much as everybody else but as a family, we’re still grieving her death,” Dennis Ronquillo said.“To be honest, I don’t think I deserve it but just want to say thank you so much,” said Mark Ronquillo.as they search for a new home and replace all that was lost in the fire.
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