Tulare County couple loses home in fire days before Thanksgiving

TULARE COUNTY, Calif. (KFSN) -- Ashes are what's near of Gerardo and Nicole Castillo's imagination countryside location successful Porterville.

The location caught occurrence aboriginal Tuesday greeting conscionable aft midnight, a mates of days earlier Thanksgiving.

"Sometimes erstwhile we halt and it conscionable washes implicit us, like, we person nary home," Nicole said.

"When we left, the location was intact," Gerardo said. "When we came back, the location was roofless."

The mates had been gone for a fewer hours, fueling up their car and visiting friends.

Thankfully, they decided to instrumentality their dogs on for the ride.

"It's a clip to bespeak and deliberation astir those astir you due to the fact that we could've mislaid each other, we could've mislaid our pets," Gerardo said. "In conscionable the blink of an eye, we could suffer idiosyncratic we attraction for. That, we instrumentality for granted."

The location is simply a implicit loss, and astir everything was destroyed.

Some pictures and images survived.

With lone the apparel connected their backs and nary home, Gerardo and Nicole are leaning connected each other, their dogs, their religion and the community's enactment this Thanksgiving.

They are hoping to rebuild 1 day.

"This is truly hard, and everything is gone, but I americium truthful happy, truthful grateful, truthful thankful for my hubby and we person our dogs," Nicole said.

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