Community raising money for family of siblings killed in house fire near Kingsburg

FRESNO COUNTY, Calif. (KFSN) -- Community enactment is pouring successful for the parents who mislaid 2 children successful a tragic location occurrence successful Fresno County connected Sunday morning.

Kingsburg Community Assistance Program and Services, a non-denominational Christian ministry, is helping the household done this devastating time.

The radical is providing the household with everything from affectional to fiscal support.

"I was capable to commune with (the father), springiness him that benignant of comfort," said Aida Rushing, the Executive Director. "He is precise thankful. We were capable to assistance interaction the Red Cross, which had already reached retired to him."

Family members shared with Action News precious photos of the 7-year-old Gloria and 8-year-old Gerardo Reyes, whose young lives were chopped abbreviated by the fire.

Loved ones archer Action News Gloria and Gerardo were blessed kids who loved to play, and their parents would person fixed their ain lives to prevention them.

Their begetter was not location erstwhile the flames tore done this spot Sunday morning. But deputies accidental their parent rammed an SUV into the location to effort to scope them earlier she was rushed to the infirmary with burns.

Skyview 30 video shows the demolition near down by the inferno.

Rushing recalls driving by the location and seeing the fume that Sunday morning.

"We were driving successful municipality that morning, and my 16-year-old girl saw the smoke," said Rushing. "We virtually stopped, and we prayed."

Hours later, Rushing received a telephone telephone aft the fire, letting her cognize that 2 children had died. Rushing said her bureau has been successful adjacent interaction with their father...

"Just seeing his bosom precise broken," said Rushing. "Not having the knowing of the why. It's conscionable hard."

A GoFundMe leafage has been acceptable up to assistance the household with ceremonial expenses.

Rushing said checks tin besides beryllium sent to KCAPs.

"We'll proceed to locomotion alongside them. What we'll beryllium capable to bash is, aboriginal connected down the road, assistance them further," said Rushing. "Whether it's they request to get an flat oregon immoderate fiscal request that they would need."

CAL FIRE is inactive moving to fig retired what sparked the fire.

"We're looking astatine communal things that commencement location fires. We're looking astatine electrical," said Battalion Chief Seth Brown. "We're looking astatine immoderate imaginable ignition root wrong the home. We besides look for ignition sources extracurricular of the home."

It's inactive unclear if the fume alarms successful the location were working. According to CAL FIRE, the probe whitethorn instrumentality respective weeks.

"We privation to beryllium arsenic thorough arsenic possible," said Brown. "So, we're looking astatine each angles."

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