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In the wake of a Sunday fire, a Powell family is without a home.
The fire broke out around 1:45 p.m., about a mile south of town off Wyo. Highway 295. Although members of the Powell Volunteer …
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In the wake of a Sunday fire, a Powell family is without a home.
The fire broke out around 1:45 p.m., about a mile south of town off Wyo. Highway 295. Although members of the Powell Volunteer Fire Department were able to limit the flames to the garage where it began, the attached residence suffered extensive damage from the smoke.
Many of the family’s possessions are ruined and the home’s gas line, electrical wiring and carpeting are among the many items that will have to be overhauled and replaced, said Channiel Hine, who lived in the residence with her parents.
“It’s going to be a big ordeal,” said Hine, who lost nearly all of her clothing. “It’s going to take us months to get us back to where we need to be.”
Relying on an account that another family member shared on social media, the Tribune significantly understated the extent of the damage in a Tuesday story. The family member had described the damage to the home as “very minimal” on Monday, but Hine said that person hadn’t realized how much damage had been dealt by the smoke.
The family members who were in the residence on Sunday afternoon inhaled some of that smoke, but they were doing OK on Tuesday, Hine said.
The cause of the fire has yet to be determined; Hine said she’d been preparing chili when she and her parents noticed a “horrible smell.” When she opened the door to the garage, Hine said she “just got hit in the face with black smoke.”
Hine was able to move two vehicles away from the garage, but the two vehicles inside were destroyed by the flames.
“It was horrible,” she said of the entire ordeal.
Hine’s parents did have home insurance, she said, which is taking care of some of their expenses — including putting her parents up in a hotel. Hine, meanwhile, was temporarily living in the office of a family business.
“We’re OK right now,” she said.
On Tuesday, she said the family was waiting as their insurer sorted out the damage to their home.
“We don’t know everything that’s going to be done,” Hine said, “but there’s a lot of damage smokewise.”
