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Sarah (Vickie’s adult daughter), Vickie, and Nathaniel, in a picture posted on the GoFundMe site.\u00a0(Photo from GoFundMe site)<\/p><\/div>\n

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Above are the remains of Vickie Eggleston’s bedroom; below are her washer and dryer.\u00a0(Facebook photo)<\/p><\/div>\n

Vickie Eggleston began April 22 as a normal day just like any other. She woke up in her West Creek Road home and saw her 10th grader, Nathaniel, off to school. Her dogs, Lucy and Beethoven, milled around. Vickie was getting stuff done in the house \u2013 putting away her winter clothes for the season \u2013 when a fire broke out. By the time her son returned from school that afternoon, the family had lost everything they owned.<\/p>\n

Fire investigators later determined a faulty space heater was to blame. Vickie said, \u201cIt was an electrical heater. I discovered that you can walk in anywhere and buy an electric heater but that doesn\u2019t mean it\u2019s safe to use.\u201d (She added that she has since learned that ceramic heaters are the safest.)<\/p>\n

Once she found the flames, Vickie tried to smother them with a blanket. In an interview this week, she tearfully recounted, \u201cI really thought I could put it out, it was little and I thought I could put it out. But that\u2019s not the case, not at all. It can get very big very fast.\u201d<\/p>\n

She got a fire extinguisher, but that wasn\u2019t enough to put out the blaze. She left and came back for another go at it, but by that point the flames had grown out of control. She tried to enter the home, but said, \u201cIt was like midnight, you couldn\u2019t even see through it and I couldn\u2019t even get back down to where the fire was.\u201d Before the house was completely engulfed, Vickie managed to coax the dogs out and was lucky enough to be outside and halfway down the sidewalk by the time the windows blew out.<\/p>\n

Although, as WBNG reported, firefighters from Candor, Newark Valley, Campville, and Owego all responded to the scene, ultimately the house was a total loss.<\/p>\n

Needless to say, the aftermath of such a tragedy has been difficult. Just figuring out where to start over has been challenging. \u201cIt\u2019s really overwhelming because you walk into Wal-Mart and you say, \u2018I don\u2019t know where to start because I don\u2019t have anything.\u2019\u201d She added, \u201cMy heart aches more for my son than anything else because he lost everything. I will say Newark Valley Central School District was absolutely incredibly amazing to him.\u201d<\/p>\n

Vickie had insurance on her home, so that helped some \u2013 but it turns out that the insurance didn\u2019t cover as much as she\u2019d hoped. The coverage will provide enough for the Egglestons to purchase a prefabricated home, but because it didn\u2019t cover demolition of the damaged structure, much of the money that would have gone toward replacing items in the home instead had to be spent on demolition.<\/p>\n

Currently, Vickie and her son are living in a camper on their property, although they don\u2019t have electricity yet. Over the past month, Vickie has spent a lot of her time dealing with insurance companies and banks. She said, \u201cPeople really, really need to go over their policies very closely. You really don\u2019t know what you\u2019re going to need until it\u2019s all gone.\u201d<\/p>\n

To help the Eggleston family cover what insurance doesn\u2019t, Vickie\u2019s long-time friend and distant relative Krissy Keener has organized a June 7 benefit at Poor Shots, on West Creek Road in Berkshire. Keener said, \u201cI just felt so bad, I just wanted to do something.\u201d<\/p>\n

Thanks to a large number of donated items, the benefit, which starts at 11 a.m., will feature a Chinese auction, as well as a bake sale, a couple of bands, a 50\/50 raffle and more.<\/p>\n

For anyone interested in helping out but unable to attend the benefit, there is a GoFundMe site setup for online donations at www.gofundme.com\/qa76ggaa<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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