FORT PIERCE, Fla. — An early-morning fire displaced seven people, including four children, in St. Lucie County.
According to a Thursday post on the St. Lucie County Fire District Facebook page, firefighters responded to the 4000 block of Avenue M just before 2 a.m.
When crews arrived at the scene, they spotted heavy smoke and flames.
Firefighters said they were able to contain the blaze to the area where it started. No one was hurt but the cause of the fire is under investigation.
Officials said the Red Cross was called to assist the family and were able to provide immediate aid and comfort kits with toiletries.
However, the family is now displaced for the holidays.
“It’s sad that this happens this time of the year like that. It’s not good for anyone,” said Debra Carter, who lives just down the road from where the fire happened.
This comes not even six months after another house fire in the same neighborhood took the lives of two people. WPTV’s Cassandra Garcia spoke with Stacey Cash who lost his father and stepmom.
“It’s devastating. I still ache from it,” said Cash.
Cash knows the family will be in need of support.
“Somebody give out a helping hand to them, because it’s devastating to lose everything you got and you got to start over again,” he said. “I've had that same feeling also.”
It’s a pain he said he wouldn’t wish upon anyone, especially around the holidays.
“I pray to God that nothing happened to them. That’s the main thing, lives were saved,” said Cash.
The Red Cross told WPTV it has opened a case file to help the family in the long term recovery process.
