MOBILE, Ala. (WKRG) — A family spoke to News 5 for the first time after their home was set on fire with them inside.
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WKRG was told the family barely escaped unharmed. Now searching for a new place to live, the family is grateful to be alive.
“I’m still here. We still here,” said Britany Riels, a victim of the arson.
Britany Riels told News 5 she was sitting inside her home on Belsaw Avenue on Saturday morning when her child’s father showed up and started throwing bricks from outside through the window.
Riels told WKRG the father, 31-year-old Ralph Hall, Jr. then lit a rag hanging out of a bottle containing some sort of flammable liquid.
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Hall then threw the bottle inside the home and that’s when the house went up in flames.
“I was home,” said Riels. “We was all home. Me, my son, my mother, my two nephews, and he knocked on the door. He was drunk. I think maybe he was on drugs.”