Family loses everything after house catches fire in Kings County

KINGS COUNTY, Calif. (KFSN) -- In Kings County, a household is without a location aft a occurrence destroyed everything they had.

The Compton household lived astatine their location successful Stratford connected 19th avenue for 44 years but now, it's each gone.

Thankfully, everyone made it retired alive, but the household mislaid everything, and the spot wherever memories were built has been reduced to ashes.

"I conscionable mislaid everything I own, I mislaid everything I own," said an affectional Viola M. Compton.

"In December, I mislaid my husband, and past this happened. There's truthful galore memories connected this spot I can't explain."

Irreplaceable memories, similar household pictures and household heirlooms from a beingness with her husband, and passed down done generations.

The spot Viola Compton called location since March of 1980, is gone.

Her location caught occurrence astir 11 p.m. connected Wednesday, July 19th.

By the clip firefighters arrived, the location was engulfed successful flames.

"I dropped to my knees and crawled retired the door," recalled Viola.

Barely making it retired and lone successful her nightgown, Viola watched everything she had worked for spell up successful flames.

For Viola, this is wherever she and her hubby built a beingness together, trained horses, and raised their children and grandchildren.

"It's devastating me. I mislaid my (dentures) teeth successful the fire. I person nary teeth anymore. I'm conscionable trying to determination on," said Viola.

The Kings County Fire Department says gangly writer and unrecorded ammunition kept them from safely going in.

Viola's son, Devin and his woman besides lived successful the home.

"That doorway lasting is wherever maine and my woman were in," said Devin.

The symptom of losing the spot helium grew up successful has been unmatched.

But the hardest part.

"Starting over. Not knowing wherever to start. It's similar I didn't recognize a idiosyncratic tin go an successful person," explains Devin.

Devin's woman had lone been location for 5 nights erstwhile the occurrence broke out.

In May, she fell into a coma and past suffered a stroke.

She is present backmost successful the hospital, recovering from first- and second-degree burns.

The household is taking the healing process 1 measurement astatine a time.

And they are thankful for the enactment they person received, "It's a blessing that there's radical consenting to help. Starting from scratch is not the easiest happening successful the world," says Devin.

Meanwhile, Viola is Holding connected to hope, household and faith, she says, "I got the bully lord connected my side. Can't bash thing without him."

She is live and capable to stock the communicative of however she made it retired of their burning home, but remembers the household keep-sakes passed down from generations agone that went up successful smoke.

The household believes a abbreviated circuit astatine an electrical outlet caused the fire.

The King's County Fire Department is inactive investigating.

The household besides shares they had conscionable mislaid their security successful May and had been moving connected getting a caller policy.

There is simply a GoFundMe leafage for the family, if you would similar to help.

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