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Friends and colleagues have rallied to support a mother of three devastated by a Saturday morning house fire in which the family cat perished.
More than $2,000 had been raised in less than a day to help replace the family’s destroyed possessions.
The woman and her three children were not injured in the fire near Woodroffe Avenue and Fallowfield Road. The woman alerted emergency crews to the two-alarm blaze in her house at 64 Locheland Cres. after being awakened by heavy smoke. Fire crews found flames coming from the basement of the end-unit row house when they arrived.
“She is a very hard-working single mom of three children,” wrote co-worker Kelly Adams in an email to the Citizen. “They are traumatized now by the fire experience as well as losing their pet cat.”
Colleagues from the Ottawa Heart Institute, where the woman has been a longtime nurse, started the gofundme page to help the family get back on its feet.
The family was receiving support from victim services but it was not known when it would be able to return to the home.
The cause of the fire remains under investigation. Damage was estimated at about $150,000.
As of Sunday evening, LR’s fire recovery fund had raised $2,440, with a goal of $7,500.
— With files from Kirsten Endemann
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More than $2,000 had been raised in less than a day to help replace the family’s destroyed possessions.
The woman and her three children were not injured in the fire near Woodroffe Avenue and Fallowfield Road. The woman alerted emergency crews to the two-alarm blaze in her house at 64 Locheland Cres. after being awakened by heavy smoke. Fire crews found flames coming from the basement of the end-unit row house when they arrived.
“She is a very hard-working single mom of three children,” wrote co-worker Kelly Adams in an email to the Citizen. “They are traumatized now by the fire experience as well as losing their pet cat.”
Colleagues from the Ottawa Heart Institute, where the woman has been a longtime nurse, started the gofundme page to help the family get back on its feet.
The family was receiving support from victim services but it was not known when it would be able to return to the home.
The cause of the fire remains under investigation. Damage was estimated at about $150,000.
As of Sunday evening, LR’s fire recovery fund had raised $2,440, with a goal of $7,500.
— With files from Kirsten Endemann
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