If losing her home in a fire wasn’t tough enough, one Vista resident says supposed good Samaritans ended up stealing the few belongings she had left.
Fire engulfed Katherine Fisher's home in the 1200 block of Cinchona Street in Vista on Wednesday. Firefighters say it started in the kitchen.
“I woke up and the door was hot. I got blisters trying to open the door and had to climb out of the window. I was alone. My daughters were away, thank God,” said Fisher.
After firefighters extinguished the blaze, she says, only a few people answered her early morning calls of help to move her belongings. The people she got a hold of agreed to come over. Fisher thought they were friends and thought they were supporting her. That wasn’t the case.
“So when I went to go sift through my stuff yesterday, it wasn’t in there. My Kindle’s gone. My daughter’s laptop gone. The Wii station is gone. All the important stuff I know I wanted for my kids,” she told NBC 7.
Fisher says one man told her he’d drop off her belongings at another location. When he never showed up to that destination, Fisher went back to the house and found several rooms emptied of her and her daughters’ things. Those items include electronics, clothes and even linen.
“I mean why would you take from someone’s kids? And my daughter’s laptop was in there. It’s gone. So, I came back thinking these people are my friends and it’s gone,” Fisher said.
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Fisher says she has filed a report with the Sheriff’s Department. NBC 7 reached out to the department’s spokesperson and the Vista Sheriff’s Station Thursday and is waiting to hear back.
Fisher's two daughters are staying with relatives during this time and the American Red Cross is helping her with motel costs for the next few days.
