{"id":2987,"date":"2010-12-09T18:52:02","date_gmt":"2010-12-09T23:52:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=2987"},"modified":"2010-12-09T18:52:02","modified_gmt":"2010-12-09T23:52:02","slug":"family-of-6-homeless-after-early-morning-fire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=2987","title":{"rendered":"Family Of 6 Homeless After Early Morning Fire"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Ms. Betty King<\/strong>, along with her three grandchildren and two great-grands, moved into their Clair-Mel home on Flint Drive five years ago. After enjoying a great Thanksgiving, the family had started their Christmas shopping.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ms. King<\/strong> said all of that came to an end early Saturday morning.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was about 1 a.m. and we were all sleeping when our next door neighbor woke us up saying the house was on fire. My 27-year-old granddaughter got up and started trying to wake everyone up to get them out of the house.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI suffer from arthritis and have to use a walker and cane to get around, so it was difficult for me to get out. I could smell the smoke, and when I looked back toward the kitchen, it seemed that\u2019s where all the smoke was coming from.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ms. King<\/strong> said her granddaughter managed to get everyone up except for one child, whose door had to be kicked open to get him out.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThank God we all got out safely. It looks like the fire started in the laundry room and may have been an electrical shortage.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe house is a total loss with fire, smoke and water damage in every room. We lost everything in the fire, because we never had a chance to grab something on our way out.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>[private]The American Red Cross housed the family for 3 days, and later gave them a 2-day extension. However, after that <strong>Ms. King<\/strong> and her family will have to find somewhere to go.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe weather has turned cold, and everyone is fighting just to keep a roof over their own heads these days,\u201d said <strong>Ms. King.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe would appreciate any help we can get, especially for another place to call home. We\u2019re also in dire need of clothing.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>County Fire spokesman, <strong>Capt. Ray Yeakley<\/strong>, said according to investigators, the fire did start in the laundry room area and the cause has not been determined.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe investigators said the heaviest damage was on the west side of the home, and although there was a washer and dryer in the laundry room, it was determined neither was the cause of the fire.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>Yeakley<\/strong> said the report also indicates that the home was total loss.<\/p>\n<p>Anyone who can assist this family can call (813) 516-3962.[\/private]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ms. Betty King, along with her three grandchildren and two great-grands, moved into their Clair-Mel home on Flint Drive five years ago. After enjoying a great Thanksgiving, the family had started their Christmas shopping. Ms. King said all of that came to an end early Saturday morning. \u201cIt was about 1 a.m. and we were [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2987","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news","pmpro-has-access"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2987","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2987"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2987\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2987"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2987"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2987"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}