Family who lost everything in devastating home fire picks up truckload of good will

EAST DEER TOWNSHIP, Pa. — An entire family’s world went up in flames just two days after Christmas. Andrea Small said she was looking at the spot where her home once stood and only saw charred pillars and ash.

On New Year’s Eve, she looked at a literal truck full of “good will.”

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“It just means so much to me and my family. We can’t describe how much it means to us,” Small said.

Small, her fiance and their four children escaped the flames at their East Deer Township home with their lives, but little else. A truck crashed into a gas line outside their home which sparked the massive blaze.

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“It’s absolutely gut-wrenching. We’ll never forget it,” Small said.

The family carried bags of clothes, plates and TV’s to a rented moving truck. The items were just some of the hundreds of things donated by the East Deer Township community. Everything was being moved to a home just one street up from where the fire occurred.

“We didn’t want to move out of the community and it made us happy that we could find a house in the same community. I couldn’t be happier anywhere else than we are right now with all of the support we’ve had,” Small said. “We do have high hopes.”

Click here if you would like to donate to the GoFundMe account set up by the family.

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