'Devastated and heartbroken': Family business near Porterville destroyed by fire

TULARE COUNTY, Calif. (KSEE/KGPE) – Family members are asking for assistance aft their grandparent's multi-generational concern burnt down successful Tulare County on Thursday night.

According to the Tulare County Fire Department, L & S Appliance Repair Service extracurricular the City of Porterville was the concern that burnt down.

Melanie Sweeney, the granddaughter of the store's owners, says the concern was a implicit loss. She says everything from customers' appliances to hundreds of parts, tools, and household antiques were destroyed.

"My full household is devastated and heartbroken," Sweeney said. "Our concern was burned from the wrong and everything was ruined. This was my grandparents' livelihood, they are some 70 and 80, truthful moving elsewhere is not an option."

Sweeney says L & S was opened successful the 1980s by her great-grandparents and has been a 2nd location to her grandparents, mother, aunts, uncles, cousins, and siblings implicit the years.

Those funny successful donating tin sojourn the family's GoFundMe webpage.