Refrigerator explosion leaves family homeless

Wonder Renna and Damian is a small family of artists and activists that started building in the tiny house movement in February of this year.   They’re first step of action started with the community education project called Abundance Build.  

This community project pulled the family from housing insecurity into a future of stability and a hopeful path of helping others out of the housing crisis through empowerment and housing provisions. 

In June the family installed a propane refrigerator to provide fresh food in their recent off grid lifestyle.  The first refrigerator had an immediate problem.  After Renna carefully installed the refrigerator and went to light it, the refrigerator caught fire.  Luckily Renna put the fire out and called Amazon to return the unit.  

Days later a new new refrigerator was sent and it was installed and lit successfully. Renna watched the refrigerator closely for  24 hours.  Luckily no one was home, when there was an explosion the next day that burnt the family’s home to the ground.  

Not only was this a 25,000 investment they made with nearly everything they had, it was not insured because of tiny house legislation that restricts these units from being considered houses.   This does not account for the months of labor and love the entire community put into building it. 

At this point, there is a lot of help needed to get the site cleaned up, pay dump fees, and especially get a roof over the heads of Renna, Wonder and Damian.   There is an investigation pending with the refrigerator company and these things can take years to settle.