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Hello my name is Enya I'm a mum of 3 children! Noah 6, hunter 2, and ryder 9months old. I popped to the shop leaving behind everything including my phone and all personal belongings. Including my children's changing bags thinking i was coming back to give them all bubble baths stories and bedtime. So what I thought was going to be a quick pop to the shop to get some milk turned into a nightmare no-one ever thought would happen. I was only gone for 15minutes and my partner had a phone call from one of our closest neighbours to say the flats were in full blaze fire. I panicked and ran out the door with my kids. I never thought I'd be in this situation ever. My son noah who is Autistic/Adhd said mummy why are we running so fast I said because there's a fire. When we got to our car park you could smell the burning of the wood. I looked up and saw complete black smoke. I ran to our flats not only to see how aggressive the flame was quickly destroying everything everyone once owned. But everyone that we all became close with like our own family who we called the dairy family standing and watching everything just dissappear in minutes. All we could do was stand and watch it take everything from us and our children. My son burst into tears screaming mummy my nana cushion. As my family don't live anywhere near us so my mum (Nana) to the boys got noah a special spiderman squishmallow and said when he misses her he can cuddle up to his cushion and fall asleep like nana is with him. Out of every content that was in my little boys room that's all he wanted, I looked at him with tears streaming and said we will get nana cushion back. He held my arm so tightly with fear in his eyes watching the flame get brighter and even bigger. We gathered all the children from dairy court and family of residents at dairy court were offering to give transport to get all the children to safety. My son hunter also Autistic. Has struggled with all of the change especially noah travelling back and forth to hotels and him asking me if this was now our home. All I can do is reassure that we are now safe but this wasn't our home. This was our first home after everything I suffered in the past with fleeing abuse for 3 years this was my first ever home my freedom and my home our home! This has been a bad dream I never wished happened. The struggle trying to sleep. Thinking what next, is all that's playing on my mind. We just want our homes back, not only is it traumatising for me as a mum. But my noah also he understands what's happened and happening. He is traumatised. On Wednesday morning a couple of days after the fire started he looked at me and said "mummy I don't want to go to school and do forest school" I asked him why and he said because of the fire mummy I don't want to burn hearing those words from a six year old absolutely broke me. So to reassure him that he would be ok was the most difficult thing I had to do/hear. This little boy loved forest school and now he is absolutely petrified to do it. So I'm sharing this story with everyone to get help with supporting me and my boys rebuild what we have lost. Anything will help and I hope this reaches everyone. All I ask for is the smallest donation and everyone to share our story. Thank you.
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Enya Herriott-Gornall
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England