After a fire destroyed their home, all a Parsonsburg family has is each other

“We lost everything.”

Those as were the words of Debbie Franklin just a day after she found her home, and everything her family owned, go up in smoke.

Everything amounting to an estimated $150,000 went up in flames last night on Powell School Road in Parsonsburg.

Shortly after 8:00 PM Thursday this was the scene as flames ripped through this *two story* home of Debbie Franklin and her family of four.

“We don’t have a home, I didn’t have house insurance, we don’t have nothing I mean we lost everything.” Said Franklin.

Maryland State Fire Marshals ruled the fire accidental and say that an oil furnace  located in the home’s kitchen was to blame for the fire that took 35 firefighters from 5 different departments to contain within a one hour time frame.

Unfortunately, firefighters couldn’t save the home which had been in the Franklin family for years,  from becoming a total loss.

Bonnie Hastings, who is the mother of Debbie’s husband, Gary Franklin, explained to 47 ABC that this loss runs deeper than expected, “This was my son’s house Gary Franklin, the house was passed down from his grandmother, so it’s a family home.”

At the moment  the Franklin family does not have a home but they do have each other.

Which is something Debbie is plenty thankful for.

“My children weren’t there, I’m blessed for that, I’m blessed that we’re alive and we weren’t in the house when it had happened.” Said Debbie.

While all four Franklin family members are safe, the blaze did claim the lives of all of the families pets.

Two cats and one dog.

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