Family displaced, at least one pet killed during Monday house fire - Corpus Christi Caller Times
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Rachel Denny Clow/Caller-Times Firefighters with the Corpus Christi Fire Department respond to a house fire on Dody Street and McArdle Road on Monday.
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Rachel Denny Clow/Caller-Times Linda Rosales, 7, sits with Haley, one of three dogs that was inside her grandmother's home when it caught fire on Monday at Dody Street at McArdle Road. One dog was found dead and another was missing late Monday.
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Rachel Denny Clow/Caller-Times Linda Rosales stands outside her home Monday at Dody Street and McArdle Road. Her home was destroyed by fire.
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Rachel Denny Clow/Caller-Times A home on Dody Street and McArdle Road was destroyed by fire on Monday.
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Rachel Denny Clow/Caller-Times Firefighters with the Corpus Christi Fire Department respond to a house fire on Dody Street and McArdle Road on Monday.
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Rachel Denny Clow/Caller-Times A Corpus Christi Fire Department firefighter holds a dog wrapped in a towel Monday after responding to a fire at Dody Street and McArdle Road. The dog was found dead, while another survived and one was missing late Monday.
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Rachel Denny Clow/Caller-Times Linda Rosales holds onto her mother's urn after firefighters brought it to her from her home on Dody Street at McArdle Road on Monday after a fire destroyed the house.
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Rachel Denny Clow/Caller-Times Santos Rosales stands outside his mother's house on Monday after it was destroyed by fire.
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Rachel Denny Clow/Caller-Times Linda Rosales looks at photographs retrieved from her home on Monday that was destroyed by fire at Dody Street and McArdle Road. In addition to the photographs, firefighters also retrieved an urn that contained her mother's ashes.
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Rachel Denny Clow/Caller-Times Linda Rosales is consoled outside her home on Monday after it caught fire at Dody Street and McArdle Road.
CORPUS CHRISTI — An afternoon fire destroyed a Corpus Christi house Monday, leaving a family without a home and killing at least one pet.
Though she lost nearly everything, Linda Rosales said she is thankful firefighters were able to save the urn holding her mother's ashes.
"Now I have my whole family," she said clutching the soot-covered urn.
Emergency responders were called about 1:30 p.m. to the white wooden house in the 4900 block of Dody Street near McArdle Road. It took more than 10 minutes to get the flames under control, Capt. J.D. Brown said.
Firefighters believe the blaze started in a shed connected to the home, sending damaging smoke and flames throughout the house, he said. The cause is under investigation.
No one was home when the fire started, and no injuries were reported.
Rosales lives at the house with several of her children and grandchildren. She moved in several years ago to care for her ailing mother, who died about two years ago, she said.
Her son Santos Rosales, 27, was headed to school when friends called him saying his mother's house was on fire.
"I looked outside and I could see a big cloud of smoke in the distance," he said.
One of the family's pets was found dead and another is missing, firefighters said. Haley, the family's Jack Russell terrier, survived and after the fire was lapping water from a bowl near Rosales' granddaughter.
The family is uncertain where they will stay, Rosales said.
Rosales has several adult children living in the area but she said they have small apartments.
An American Red Cross spokeswoman said the agency is assisting five adults and seven children living at the home with food, clothing and temporary lodging.
The house did not have insurance, Rosales said.
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