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PORTERVILLE, Calif. (KSEE/KGPE) - A Porterville household is surviving retired of a edifice aft a occurrence suspected to beryllium caused by amerciable fireworks burned down their home. Chris Nanamura, who is present surviving successful impermanent accommodation with his woman Nikki Matson, and their 10-month-old lad says determination is "no accountability" for those who caused that fire.
"Our biggest occupation is that you person these kids mounting disconnected fireworks retired successful the thoroughfare unsupervised," Nanamura said. "They pain down 4 structures, nary one's taken work - I'm not definite who their begetter is, but that's not a man, you don't rise kids similar that."
Nanamura says connected June 7, helium was hundreds of miles distant from his household successful Colorado celebrating a person getting their PhD erstwhile helium got a frantic telephone from his woman that their location was connected fire.
"Mid-conversation she says 'Oh my God the location is connected fire' - and she hangs up."
Nanamura says his woman rushed to get their babe and helium started calling everyone helium could to help, support himself updated connected the concern astatine home, and pass everyone of the imaginable dangers.
"One of my large concerns, due to the fact that I was a firefighter successful Yosemite National Park, was I reload my ain ammunition," Nanamura said.
"I [also] had an oxygen, acetylene cutting torch - I was connected the telephone with firefighters making definite they knew wherever that worldly was. It would've leveled a lot."
Matson says she initially heard popping and assumed it was fireworks connected the property. To her surprise, she says her neighbor's location and her ain were engulfed successful flames.
"I ran in, grabbed him [their baby] got him retired of the house, I was capable to spell backmost successful and get our dogs, and past we watched it go."
About 10 days earlier the fire, Nanamura says helium had a speech with his landlord astir fireworks. He says his landlord thought the large noises she heard were from Nanamura moving connected something.
"I told her, 'no, it was these kids crossed the street' - and I went implicit and yelled astatine them."
Nanamura says helium had hoped his informing would beryllium enough.
"It stopped that night, but evidently it didn't halt due to the fact that we're here."
Nanamura and Matson accidental they are grateful to the Porterville assemblage and their neighbors who came to their assistance pursuing the fire. A GoFundMe online fundraiser has helped them instrumentality with immoderate of the fiscal burdens associated with losing their home.
"We're some beauteous strong-willed people," Matson said. "But conscionable to cognize that our lad has that and the things that were truly peculiar to him are going to beryllium replaced with nary sweat disconnected our backmost has been specified a blessing and a relief."
Nanamura says they person not had to usage the wealth from the GoFundMe fundraiser yet, but that is partially due to the fact that helium and his household bash not person immoderate country for thing arsenic they are inactive surviving successful a hotel.
"We mislaid everything," Nanamura said. "There's intangible stuff, that's memories, much than the value."
