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Fire survivors need help!

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Our story begins in east Charlotte on March 21st. It's the first weekend of spring and my roommates are in our backyard with their two dogs tending to our freshly sprouting garden and the baby chickens that just arrived. The other three of us were out of the house for the day. I had taken my dogs to visit my mom on the other side of town. Our cat, Franny, was the only one inside when a toaster started an electrical fire in the corner of the kitchen. Natassia thought she smelled plastic burning and soon after noticed flames coming out of the side door and Will rushed into the house with the hose to put the fire out and find our cat, as she often hides out in the laundry room attached to the kitchen. Firefighters later found her hiding in their bedroom and rescued her from the house. They had to gut the kitchen walls and cabinets to make sure the fire wasn't inside of the walls and cut a hole in the roof to let the smoke out. The fire marshall tells us we can't stay here and turns off the power and gas. There's ash and soot everywhere, everything smells like smoke and now five people, four dogs and a true survivor of a cat are bouncing around to friends and family for a place to sleep.   Now we're in a tight spot. We'll be splitting up, seeing as our dream house is destroyed and the hope of living in another place with an acre of land with a fence and enough room in a house for five people is slim.
We are asking for your help with the following for five people:

Paying the last of our bills at this house
Deposits and first months rent for wherever we go
Pet deposits
Utility deposits
Gas for moving
Supplies for moving
Replacing lost kitchen appliances and cookware(Natassia is an avid juicer!)
And anything else that pops up.

Franny the Cat plus the dogs Ursa Major, Anna Belle, Wallace, Sophie and their caregivers appreciate anything you can donate.
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    Andrew J Strickland
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    Charlotte, NC

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