Priest River family seeking help after house burns down

A Priest River family is seeking community support after a tragic accident caused them to lose their house and all of their belongings on the Fourth of July.

Darby Hawkins, her boyfriend, Dustin Simpson, and their three children arrived home to a blazing house after Hawkins said the five had gone out to fly kites for the holiday. According to Hawkins, they were only gone for roughly 30 minutes and when they got home, they found out their air condition had caught fire, engulfing the house.

Almost everything they own was destroyed either by the fire or the water used to extinguish it.

"The only thing that survived was our shed with snow tires and tools," Hawkins wrote on her GoFundMe page. "Our home is unlivable and we are reaching out in hopes to come up with funds to help find us a new home, clothes, food and everything else as we will be out of work for a little while trying to recover from this tragedy our family is now dealing with."

To view the GoFundMe, go online to https://gf.me/v/c/m5bt/xsrhkm-house-fire.