A Cicero fire has left a family of 5 without a home after a Christmas Day blaze at a 29th Place apartment.
Instead of waking up to gifts and holiday cheer, one family's Christmas morning was ravaged by a fire, leaving them beginning the holidays without a home.Their belongings are still scattered on the icy ground after a family of five, with one more on the way, was forced to leave the home they shared for more than a decade and watch it burn on a cold Christmas morning.
On Monday, they were still wrapped in some of the same clothes they were wearing when that fire tore through their second-floor apartment in Cicero, sending them into the frigid cold, as years of memories and Christmas gifts burned."Her baptism dresses, her first communion dresses, stuff that can't be replaced, you know?" Avila said.
"We had everything already set for the baby upstairs, and I think we have to start all over again because everything got damaged," Avila said.
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