"I've literally got nothing": Mum and young daughters 'lose everything' in devastating house fire
09.06.2022 - 21:59
/ manchestereveningnews.co.uk
A young family have been left devastated after 'losing everything' when a fire ripped through their home in Newton Heath. Joanne McEwan, 27, and her two daughters were left with only the clothes they were wearing following the blaze at their home in Mitchell Street on Tuesday morning (June 7).
Joanne had not long since left to take her two-year-old daughter, Louise, to nursery when the fire broke out in her kitchen. She then visited her mother's house with her eldest daughter, Isabella, five, where she received a phone call from a neighbour to say her house was ablaze.
"I didn't believe them at first," Joanne said. "I heard shouting in the background and then thought it must be real. I just ran and get in my mum's car and drove straight to my house."
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Joanne arrived on her street to find it taped off by police while three fire engines were parked outside her home. "My first thought was for my two dogs and cat," she said.
"The fire brigade brought my dogs out and they went back in. My cat was under my kids' bed. They brought her out and had to do CPR on her in the road."
Joanne says she and her daughters have 'lost everything' in the blaze, including sentimental jewellery and money she had saved for an upcoming family holiday.
"The only things we have are the clothes we had on that day," she explained. "Everything is gone.
"We were going on holiday next month and had holiday money in the cupboard. That's completely melted.
"I was only taking my kids to Wales for four days in a caravan. I've lost all the holiday clothes as well. I had my daughters' memory boxes from when they were born but everything has