She Lost Everything In An Explosion, Including Her Best Friend And Emotional Support Dog

We never suspect that something bad is going to happen in our lives. We just go day to day, trying the best we can to have the life we want. For everyone, that life is just slightly different. For some people, it’s getting married and having kids; to others, it might be their own apartment with a pet and things that bring them joy.

For Andrea, everything went up in smoke. She lost everything in a fire that destroyed her apartment and took the life of her best friend and emotional support animal, Mighty.

The day started off like any other. Andrea had decided to go to the pool to cool off on her birthday. She went home to check on Mighty.

“Be a good boy, baby. Mommy loves you. I’ll be back in a couple of hours!” she said to him.

“I was at the pool, and about 10 minutes later, I heard an alarm. I didn’t think anything of it until I heard people yelling and rushing to my apartment,” she explained.

“I sprinted across the parking lot to find black smoke. Someone opened the door, and I yelled for Mighty, but he did not come. I lost my baby.”

“I burnt my hair, lashes, eyebrows, and fingers. I could hear everyone yelling for me to leave, but I kept trying. I couldn’t save him. My entire world fell apart within seconds.”

At this point in time, Andrea had no insurance due to her new employment missing a deadline. She ended up in the emergency room for smoke inhalation and burns to her hands.

GoFundMe; pictured above is Mighty

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Due to losing her prior job several months beforehand, she was in debt for $10,000 credit, and she lost everything. Clothes, furniture, any physical money she had, and Mighty, her best friend. She couldn’t even get into her car and move it because her car keys were inside the apartment when it caught fire.

“The cause of the explosion is unknown, but I’ve heard talk that my AC unit exploded. It has not been cooling as it should. I took it as it was the top floor and poorly insulated when it was set on 61 and wouldn’t get below 77 on hot days,” she continued.

“A grill is talked about; a grill did NOT  start the explosion. Yes, I had a tabletop CHARCOAL grill and a bag of charcoal on the balcony to keep dirty things outside. I had plans to take it to the pool in the evening and grill there. There was no gas involved.”

Her friends and family have been helping her replace things that were lost in the fire. The main thing that she is worried about is that she will have no way to pay any medical bills. She set up a GoFundMe to help alleviate some of the monetary stress.

She added 2 updates to the original posting. On July 12, she said that she was grateful for all the support in such a short time. “Today is the first I’m able to hold full conversations and actually ate a couple of bites of something- first time in 2 and a half days. I wish I could thank everyone individually, and I will in time, but I can’t keep up,” she explained.

She went on to say, “Just so you all know, I plan to purchase my furniture that isn’t generously provided to me by the community from animal friends thrift shop. They have great furniture, and it also is a way of keeping Mighty’s spirit alive. I’m not trying to make gains here, just put my life back together,” she continued.

If I had gone through anything like this, I wouldn’t have had the strength to ask for help. The second update was on July 15. It said that she started work the following Monday; she says she was not ready but that she doesn’t have a choice. She’s still having a hard time mentally about losing Mighty. She wants to have a memorial, but there’s nothing left but videos and pictures on her phone.

You can go to the GoFundMe for Andrea here.

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