On Jan. 19, Ashley Metcalfe’s life was forever changed.
Her family experienced a home fire, losing all of their personal belongings and the place they called home.
Ashley remembers the day vividly when the smell of smoke jolted her awake around 4 a.m. She frantically ran around the house to find the source of the fire, only to later learn the fire had started in the apartment next to hers.
The local fire department battled the blaze for several hours, while Ashley and her partner Arnold stood in the cold with their neighbors. Thankfully, her three children were staying the night with her sister when the fire broke out.
When Ashley and Arnold were allowed back into their home, they found everything submerged in water.
“Once we got back inside our unit — being the basement unit — it was flooded in about 5 or 6 feet of water,” Ashley said. “Everything we have — appliances, TVs, mattresses, our bed frames, clothes — every single thing we owned, we lost it all. Everything is gone.”...
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