Fire Devastates Family Taking Everything

My, name is: Carissa Anderson, my husband’s name is: Timmy, and we have 6 children currently with us at, home. Timmy and I, have been together for, about 6.5 years, 4 of those years, we have been married.

Yesterday, November 9th, 2023, a fire started, inside our family home. We had basically been home, up till now, taking care of: Bentley’s ink ingestion. Then, as soon as I said, he was done. Bentley’s dementor, was like he had to get there right now. I had: Bentley, yo out to be car, and then, I ask my husband to, come, drop our son off, quick like, with me. The three of us get h ti the car and leave to the middle school. We drop, Bentley off at school, and now back home. As we are pulling up into our driveway, we only had been gone, for:7 minutes. Now, home again, we see our: front, bedroom window, is appearing as if there is thick grab smoke just bellowing out of the window and just filling our home. Timmy and I; then run to our: front door, screaming for our dog, whom is crying for help inside. We immediately open the door and enter our home is completely engulfed all ready by thick gray smoke at we try to fight through yelling for our puppy and trying to get to her, the smoke so thick and hot pulling all the oxygen out of the air and directly from your lungs that you can feel the oxygen getting less. We can’t see anything and we are becoming confused and getting turned around, but we both run outside front door to catch a breathe and my husband and I both go in one more time, somehow it’s even worse than the first time we went in. Both of us push through as far screaming for our animals inside, trying to get them out both of us almost can’t get out, but by the grace of god, both of us coughing, singed and screaming get out. Everything by this point already fully taken over in only another 3 minutes in. I call 911, completely unaware of the damage I’m screaming my address trying to find a hose or anything anywhere near by, because we can’t go back in again, cause it could truly be the last. Screaming for them to hurry and to send them.m right now plead with her that I needed yo here the sirens now. As I am trying still checking the condition of the house and keeping an eye on where my husband was, I am screaming I fo on the phone. Dispatch and continuing to forage for something anything that could help me save my dog or home. When, in that second, all the windows of our home breaks out and fire completely consumes everything we had built and worked for. The dog is no linger crying, I know in that moment that, nothing will be how it was again, that our home was done and that my puppy was also gone. We then hear the sirens, I pray to god to go help us, the trucks get the fire under control and eventually contained. My husband and I so unable to think or do anything but watch all of things and our children’s things and our family home burn into nothing. It felt like the dream we always felt like we worked toward symbolized by our home of our dream defeated. Our home completely deamed unlivable and nothing not the home or a single thing inside, next to or anything near our home gone. Yesterday, we lost every single thing we had ever had. Demolished completely. My family, myself my husband and my children need everything, and anything you can think of, we need to figure out how it to do about somewhere to live too. We are reaching out to the community, to anyone and everyone that can possibly help us in any way you can. Everything we have ever worked for or had is gone and now we need to start completely over, with nothing and hoping that in this we can get help to rebuild and start over. Anything you can donate or want to donate we will take and appreciate. Even just a prayer for my family at this point is so much: I need you to share this story and post. If you can’t help us by donating money then please help by sharing and showing others, getting our story out to as many people as we can cause, sadly we have nothing but the clothes in our back and I need help to get my children back into some sort of a routine as fast as possible. If anyone knows a way or id a or whatever for a home, we very much need that too. We are truly struggling and my family doesn’t deserve this and I am begging if you can help us with anything please. This is so crazy and unfortunate, I am trying to just put one foot in front of the other and move forward as much as I can a thing forward is progress. Thank you for reading, and god bless you all, keep on sharing and get this out to as many people as you can please. My children have nothing and lost everything they owned and knew. I am holding them so tight, we have our family intact and that is huge. This is very scary and oh so difficult so whatever you can do to assist is more than I can ever be thankful for.