Help Rebecca and her girls

Last week my sister Rebecca ,unfortunately, had an electrical fire at her home. If you know my sister, you know she doesn’t like to ask for help. I think in this case she needs to stop telling everyone” it’s fine”and accept the help so many of us want to give.

She is a single mother to my nieces Camryn (13) and Avery(11). Naturally, They have been through so much stress this last week, mainly because they don’t know where they will be living. Luckily, the house was not completely destroyed, but they still will not be back in their home for another 3-4 months. With school and work starting up next week this just adds another stressful layer of not knowing where they will be. They were put in a hotel two days ago and just told today that they can only stay short term. The insurance company informed them they will find them an apartment (which could possibly be 1/2 hour away from their home). The problem here is that she now has to lay out money for security, furniture rental, and utilities all while still paying for certain things at her house. Most people think insurance covers everything, but we are seeing this is not the case. Since they had to leave the house with just the clothes on their back, my sister had to go buy them all new clothes and was informed this will not be covered. The clothes that were taken to the cleaners are still not back and we have no idea what condition they will even be in?!

The part that is probably the scariest is the fact that the insurance company might not pay to re-wire the entire house. Their house was built in the 1950’s and the wire that started the fire is believed to run through the entire house, but insurance will only pay to re-wire the rooms that were on fire. Since she doesn’t have an “upgrade clause” in her insurance, they can’t upgrade any wiring or her box, which again is from the 50’s. They’re scared this could happen again on the other side of the house, even the fire marshal recommended everything be gutted and re-wired. Of course, she is fighting for this to be covered, and her insurance company is trying, but it’s going to be a battle. If she pays for the upgrade it will be thousands and if she doesn’t, they have to worry the same thing is going to happen down the line.

I know my sister would never ask anybody for anything , but they’ve lost so much already, it seems unfair that she has to keep shelling out money. If you can contribute in any way possible it would be greatly appreciated and I feel like this is the only way she will actually accept any financial help from anyone. Thank god everybody is ok because in the end that’s all that really matters!