‘I am about to go to heaven'- Final call of an Italian lady trapped in blaze to her parents

‘I am about to go to heaven’- Final call of an Italian lady trapped in blaze to her parents

-Ojo Oluwasegun

A young, talented Italian woman telephoned her mother to say her goodbyes as her flat was engulfed in the Grenfell Tower blaze.

Marco Gottardi and his girlfriend Gloria Trevisan, both architects from the Veneto region of northern Italy, are missing and feared dead by their families.

The two lived on the 23rd floor of the 24-story tower block which went up in flames.

After graduating with high marks in architecture, the couple had moved to London last March after Ms. Trevisan couldn’t find work in Italy that paid more than 300 euros a month.

In London, Ms. Trevisan found a job that paid £1,800 a month and was happily embarking on her new career.

When the fire broke out, she immediately called her parents, who began recording all her subsequent calls.

“These are terrible, agonizing calls,” said Maria Cristina Sandri, the lawyer for Ms. Trevisan’s family, who said she cried as she listened to the audio files with the parents Thursday morning.

According to Italian media accounts, the 26-year-old architect first called in the evening telling her parents there was a fire on the third floor, but both she and her parents seemed certain that firefighters would have extinguished the fire before it got anywhere near her apartment on the 23^rd floor.

At 2 a.m., she was more frantic. Gloria’s mother asked to speak with Ms. Trevisan’s boyfriend, Marco Gottardi, who tried to calm both his girlfriend and her parents. “The firefighters are here, everything is okay.”

When she called again about 3 a.m. in Italy, her parents had turned on the television in their home near Padua and had begun watching a live broadcast of tower in flames as they spoke with their daughter on the phone.

“We can’t get out, we are blocked,” Gloria said.

The last call came at 4:07 Italian time, as smoke was pouring into the apartment.

“I am so sorry I can never hug you again. I had my whole life ahead of me. It’s not fair. I don’t want to die. I wanted to help you, to thank you for all you did for me,” reported La Repubblica. “I am about to go to heaven, I will help you from there.”

“There’s a lot of smoke but don’t worry, we’re waiting for the rescuers. We opened the front door but there was too much smoke to be able to leave. The lifts are blocked,” Mr Gottardi had told his father, Giannino, at around 2am UK time.

Giannino Gottardi told the Italian press: “In the first call they told us to be calm, that everything was under control. But in the second call – and I cannot get this out of my head – he told me that there was smoke, that a lot of smoke was rising up.

“There’s nothing more we can do than wait for a miracle,” he said.

Source: Telegraph

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