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FRESNO, Calif. (KSEE/KGPE) - A azygous parent of 3 is hoping for a Christmas occurrence this twelvemonth aft an flat occurrence forced her and her 3 boys retired of their home successful aboriginal December.
On December 1, Fresno Fire responded to a fire just aft 11 a.m. astatine an flat adjacent Peach Avenue and Manila Avenue, conscionable eastbound of Clovis Avenue. A first-floor portion of the gathering was heavy progressive with flames. The origin of the occurrence is inactive nether investigation.
Katy Milliken says she and her 3 sons lived successful the flat straight supra the 1 that was connected fire. She and her sons were not successful the flat astatine the clip of the fire, but the harm from the occurrence connected the archetypal level has near their flat unlivable.
Milliken and her sons decided connected a whim to spell to the store conscionable earlier the occurrence to prime up immoderate groceries, a determination she believes saved their lives.
"I conscionable consciousness similar God called america retired conscionable to tally an errand," Milliken said. "He was protecting america from thing and it was conscionable brainsick to travel backmost to."
Milliken says erstwhile she came backmost she and her sons watched successful disbelief arsenic their location went up successful flames.
"It was benignant of a scary infinitesimal for each of us," Milliken said.
She says present her eldest son, 15-year-old Andre, is doing his champion to enactment beardown for his younger siblings, six-year-old Junior and four-year-old Cash.
Milliken says she had conscionable paid her rent that day. Since the fire, she says her household has moved from location to location with extended household and friends.
According to Milliken, her analyzable offered a portion for 3 days but past told her she needed to permission that unit. She says she was offered different portion aft that but was told she would person to wage $50 more.
"They took my rent happily, truthful I asked if I could get my rent backmost oregon astatine slightest pro-rated," Milliken said. "So that's wherever I americium now."
Despite the vexation of being displaced Milliken says she's doing her champion to enactment beardown for her boys and find the imaginable bully successful her concern and a solution arsenic well.
"If I didn't request it, I would beryllium asking for help," Milliken said. "I unrecorded paycheck to paycheck and [renters insurance] is an other disbursal that I was going to person to hold to acquisition connected my adjacent check."
Milliken says immoderate magnitude of assistance would beryllium greatly appreciated, her extremity this Christmas is to enactment a extortion implicit her children's heads and she hopes the assemblage tin travel guardant to assistance her bash it.
"I would beryllium everlastingly grateful," Milliken said. "I enactment hard, I enactment for a nonprofit organization. I effort to wage it guardant erstwhile I can, and, my kids would beryllium truthful grateful to beryllium capable to walk Christmas successful nether a extortion together."
A GoFundMe has been acceptable up for the Milliken household and the nexus tin beryllium recovered by clicking here.
