Fire leaves single mother of five homeless — family asking for community help

YUMA, Ariz. (KYMA) - A fire ripped through a Yuma home, leaving a single mother of five and one on the way left her and other family members displaced and asking for help.

“We lost everything, all of our clothes, important documents, and I'm a single mom of five so it was hard, especially on Easter,” the mother said.

The fire happened this past Saturday on First Street and 19th Avenue. It displaced two adults and five children. The mother, Xenia Hirales, is now working to rebuild her home and support her growing family.

“It wrecked me. It's already hard as it is being a single mom with four kids and I take care of my niece, so five, and they're all so little and everything's changing,” Hirales said.

A GoFundMe has been set up for the family, and they are asking for donations to help during this time of rebuilding and grief.

“She doesn't have nothing no more. She's going to have to re-get everything and even buying birth certificates cost money, IDs cost money, everything costs. It would be amazing to have the community help in every way possible,” friend Summer Rain Martinez said.

The cost to rebuild from the ground up is very costly for a growing family of six. “Anybody that can help donate, help with clothes, help with basically just anything would be just a great help to her and the children. They need anything that they can get right now,” Martinez added.

A GoFundMe page has been created to support the Hirales family. To donate or learn more about how to help visit their GoFundMe page. Any contribution will help this family during this difficult time.