Dinuba family loses everything in destructive apartment fire

The occurrence displaced 25 people, including the Sanchez family.

TULARE COUNTY, Calif. (KFSN) -- Through tears, Jacquelyn Sanchez shares however everything her 13-year-old girl loved is present gone.

"She had a batch of things successful her country that she loves. She had her country each decorated the mode she loved it, but it's conscionable gone overnight," said Sanchez.

Video shows their flat aft a occurrence destroyed everything they owned connected Monday night.

The Dinuba Fire Department estimated the spot harm astatine astir $600,000. The occurrence displaced 25 people, including the Sanchez family.

When occurrence crews arrived, flames were seen connected the balcony of a 2nd level apartment. The occurrence section said the blaze dispersed to the adjacent flat over, which was the Sanchez family's home.

"It's not thing you ever expect to hap to you. You ever spot this hap to families connected the quality and you consciousness truthful atrocious for them, you know, it's truthful hard having it hap to you," said Sanchez.

Sanchez said she was capable to drawback her purse due to the fact that she saw it connected the mode retired the door, but everything else, including their beloved feline Felix, was near behind.

"It happened 2 days earlier my girl was expected to commencement school, truthful each of our buying was done. We had her caller clothes, her caller shoes, truthful she didn't drawback immoderate of that, we weren't capable to get immoderate of that, everything was lost, each her clothes, her glasses, too, she had caller glasses to commencement the schoolhouse twelvemonth and truthful present she started schoolhouse with nary glasses," said Sanchez.

The origin of the occurrence is inactive nether investigation. As Sanchez and her hubby Abraham effort to rebuild their life, she says she's grateful everyone successful her household was capable to marque it retired alive.

Sanchez, her husband, and their 2 kids are present staying with family. And its household that acceptable up a donation page to assistance the household during this unimaginable loss.

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