Metre-high flames and thick smoke erupted from a single-family home in Altlengbach, Lower Austria, on Sunday evening. A young mother and her four-year-old daughter were rescued from the burning house. They escaped with their lives – the small family lost all their belongings and their house was destroyed by flames.
It is still completely unclear how the terrible fire started. When the fire brigade arrived at the single-family home on the edge of the municipality of Altlengbach, it was already completely on fire. The fire was quickly under control and extinguished, but the house was completely destroyed and therefore uninhabitable.
Urgently looking for a new place to stay
While the single mother and her daughter are being treated in the hospital, a wave of willingness to help is already emerging in the background. The market town of Altlengbach is urgently looking for a new place to stay for the family: “First of all, we need an immediate temporary solution. Since the house will probably never be habitable again, we are already looking for long-term housing for the two of them ”, said ÖVP Deputy Mayor Daniel Kosak.
Community launches fundraising campaign
Furthermore, just a few hours after the devastating fire, an appeal was launched on the online fundraising platform gofundme.com: “As a community and especially as a community, we are now launching this fundraising campaign to help this family through this difficult time. time. As a community we will support where we can. With living space for the transition, but also from our social fund.”
In just under four hours, more than 3,000 euros in donations were collected. “People’s willingness to help is really impressive. We have to organize everything now. “We can do it together,” Kosak says, hoping for a happy ending for the family.
Source: Krone
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