Tonight, a family living on Arlington Drive in the Faber's Road area is homeless after their house caught fire 3 separate times between yesterday and this morning.
It's the kind of thing that seems surreal, and after intervention from the Fire Department, you would figure that the fire would be completely controlled. Well, not so, and after 3 successive blazes, the house was completely destroyed.
Today, the McKoy family explained their continued misfortune to the media:
Gilbert McKoy - Fire Victim
"I was alerted by my niece daughter when she came running across telling me that the house was on fire. I was shocked, I never believe it because I was sitting down in the hall watching TV, but I smell something burning, but my neighbor beside me is always burning things so I really didn't pay it any mind, so I continue watching the game until my niece daughter ran cross and tell me 
uncle you house is on fire. It was then that I jump up and I ran back in the kitchen, but then I remember that I didn't have on anything in the kitchen, so it was then I ran into the dining room and then I saw smoke coming out of the room from under the door and at that time my wife had already come across because she was across at my sister's house. I grab a bucket of water from in the kitchen and ran and open the room door but the whole room was already on fire."
The Fire Department reports that the initial blaze was caused by faulty electrical equipment.
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