GRANT COUNTY, Ky. (WKRC) – A Grant County woman is mourning the loss of not just her longtime home, but also her two beloved pets.
Sissy Rosendo says her trailer home caught fire November 20 while she was hanging up curtains.
She, her husband, and her daughter managed to get her three young grandchildren out in time.
“I heard the kids saying, ‘Help, help, help, help, help!’” said Rosendo.
Once the family was out, her thoughts turned to her two dogs, Ginger and Pugsley.
“And then I happened to remember, ‘Oh, the dogs! My dogs are in there,’” she said.
But it was too late. Both dogs had died.
“My dog, Ginger, belonged to my mother who passed away seven years ago," said Rosendo. "That was my mother’s dog.”
And the loss of her home of 17 years is yet another connection Rosendo is losing to her late mother.
“My mother died in here in my arms,” she said.
Authorities say the fire is believed to be electrical.