Does anyone have suggestions for where I can find help after a housefire?
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Help after a fire
Step 1
Red Cross
Step 2
Social services in your area
Step 3
Local churches
Step 4
Gofundme
Step 5
Friends
Step 6
Local radio or news station for a human interest story
You can also get help from family/friends/neighbors. If you have an employer, at my job when something tragic happens we like chip in money for someone.
when we had a housefire, the first people to help were my parents; we had to stay with them for 2 or 3 weeks. Thankfully just us 2, no kids or pets.
so family is 1st step
secondly we contacted our renter's insurance and they were INDISPENSABLE. I pray y'all had some sort of renter's insurance. It is well worth the cost and does not cost more than $20 a month for us
thirdly by putting a facebook update (not ven asking for anything, just sort of as an announcement) there were some real great, caring people who offered time, $, assistance, etc. All we really requested were leads on new places to live, but some awesome folks even sent us $ unsolicited. Very grateful to those
so, social media.
fourthly we went on craigslist to look for new housing and found it.
fifthly we got whatever funds we got from the insurance payout to go to Goodwill and buy some very basic living things (Sheets, plates, clothes, etc) and ended up spending like less than $100 on that, though we did have to buy a fridge because our new situation needed i but we found a cheap one at $200. Another $200 for other sundries involved in new living arrangement
that was my personal experience with this
Prayers for you and your family!
We have helped people in your situation by setting up go fund me accounts for them. People can be very generous when it is a friend of a friend or someone in their community.
If you have a friend who can do this for you (or you can do it yourself) you may get some extra money to help with what you need.
The process is fairly easy (takes about 1/2 hour) if you have photos or a link to a news story, I strongly recommend using them as there was a person in my town last year who "faked" a fire story and set up a go fund me to feed his drug or gambling habit (I can;t remember which). He is in jail now. He got caught because there was no news story or photos of the fire and the fire department had no record of going to his house.
You do have to have a bank account to have the money deposited to (and Go fund me takes a percentage of each donation so if someone gives $100 you don't get the whole $100, you get $90 something. I forget the actual percentage.
I hope this helps you!! Prayers will continue.
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