A mother in Surrey has been left to pick up the pieces after a fire broke out at her home in the Plaza Mobile Home and RV Park Thursday.
Melissa Sheard says she was out with a friend when she received a call about the fire from the manager of the park, which is located on King George Boulevard near 82nd Avenue.
“She’s like, don’t come here right now, because the fire’s out of control, so there’s nothing you can do,” Sheard told CityNews.
“So I waited, and then I went there … probably a couple hours later, and my whole entire place is burnt. There’s nothing left.”
She says all of her belongings and her daughter’s belongings were destroyed.
“I don’t even have a single picture of a family member. I literally have nothing in this world, all my shoes, clothes. I don’t even have a toothbrush, my glasses that I just paid over $1,000 for, and I don’t have that kind of money to do it again,” she said.
“I had antiques, I had jewelry from my great, great grandparents, that’s all gone. But the thing that is killing me the most is my kids’ baby photos. I have none left anymore.”
She says her daughter is devastated.
“She was so upset when I told her, because I have no choice but to tell her we have no home to go to now,” she said.
“Where are we supposed to go? And no government agency is offering us any help. We have nothing.”
Sheard says she isn’t sure where to go from here.
“My next steps are just to process this and move past it, I guess. I don’t know how what I’m going to do,” she said.
“I have no family out here to get help from. I have nothing in this world anymore. It’s really sad.”
The RCMP says it has now identified a suspect and is searching for them.
Nobody was hurt in the fire, which has been deemed suspicious, police say.