Home destroyed after fire breaks out at pallet yard in Fresno County

FRESNO COUNTY, Calif. (KFSN) -- A pistillate is devastated aft her location was destroyed by a occurrence that broke retired successful pallet gait successful Fresno County connected Friday night.

Through tears, Geraldine Fox shared her symptom aft the occurrence destroyed her location adjacent Brawley and Franklin avenues.

Officials accidental the occurrence started successful a pallet gait crossed the thoroughfare from Fox's home.

Within minutes of seeing the fire, she says her location was destroyed.

"I had my grandkids moving retired the backmost door, I had to propulsion my hubby retired of the location due to the fact that he's wheelchair bound," said Fox.

She's lived successful the location for astir 50 years and precocious remodeled the space. But present each that's near are piles of rubble.

Fox says she's upset with the occurrence department.

"If that's a home, you would see trying to easiness the occurrence disconnected present than that spot implicit there," said Fox.

"It is precise unfortunate that a location was lost. But the main precedence was that their lives weren't and they were safe," explained North Central Fresno Fire Battalion Chief Lance Morton.

Morton says determination were respective hazards firefighters were facing.

"We were successful a h2o deficient country that determination were nary hydrants," said Morton.

"So, we had each of our rotation tenders that were dispatched, including done communal assistance partners, that they had the h2o tenders determination arsenic well."

More than 50 firefighters from North Central Fire, Fresno, Fresno County and Madera County Fire helped conflict the flames.

Morton says investigators are calling the origin of the occurrence suspicious.

He encourages anyone with accusation to scope retired to investigators.

As officials effort to portion unneurotic what caused the blaze, Fox says the Red Cross is helping her but it's family, friends and adjacent her neighbors that are getting her done this heartbreaking time.

"I truly don't cognize what I'm going to bash close now. It's conscionable 1 time astatine a time," said Fox.

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