How you can help Drayton family after losing everything in house fire

A young mum and her three children face the difficult task of rebuilding their life after devastating fire destroyed everything they own.

Appealing for help are (From left) Akech Acuil and Adhel Deng.

A YOUNG mum has appealed for help to rebuild her life after losing everything to a fire on Monday night.

Akech Acuil was fetching something from her car about 7.30pm when she heard the piecing sound of an alarm.

A small fire had started in a wardrobe at the rear of the building and spread quickly.

The alarm gave Ms Acuil enough time to rush inside, scoop up her three young children and make it back to the street before the flames gutted her Ladner St home.

“Two of my children are in shock, but my youngest thinks it was fireworks,” Ms Acuil said.

“He doesn’t know what has happened.”

Akech Acuil lost her home to a fire on Monday night.

Toowoomba-based Fire and Rescue units were tasked to the incident after a Triple-0 called flagged the possibility of children trapped inside.

Officers searched inside the structure, while others suppressed the fire from outside.

They had the incident under control by 8.10pm and they left the scene by 9.30pm.

Ms Acuil and her children are staying with extended family while she looks for a new home.

She also faces the difficult and costly task of replacing all the furniture, whitegoods, clothes, kitchenware and household items she has collected in the 10 years after she migrated to Australia from South Sudan.

They include beds, clothes, and toys for three children, a nine-year-old girl and two boys aged five and three.

“The house looks okay from the outside, but when you go inside it is a different story,” Ms Acuil said.

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