VIDEO/PHOTOS: A Valley family has been forced to start all over again, for the second time, after a house fire destroyed everything they own.
Andrea Dimao, her two children, both of her parents, and their pets had been renting a home near Greenway Road and Bullard Avenue when a fire broke out in their attic Tuesday night.
“I got a phone call that I needed to come home because my daughter came home, and smoke was billowing out of the roof,” Dimao told 12News on Wednesday.
When Dimao arrived at her home, fire trucks were already on the scene. Surprise Fire-Medical Department responded around 10 p.m.
“I pull up… and my dad is in his wheelchair, and my mom just got over breast cancer, and [we were] just watching our lives burn and not crying,” she said.
Dimao’s son, Dominic, and both of her parents were home when the fire started.