The Hartford family calls up the community after he has lost everything in the fire – NBC Connecticut

Last month, a heavy fire took home in Hartford Rosa Arroyo's house, where she lived with her mother, stepfather, her husband and her children.

“Everything was a total loss.” Arroyo said outside the motel in which she and her family now live. “It is not easy to be here with children and you know that it was a whole 360, a change.”

Arroyo says she lost her dog in the fire and her stepfather, 66-year-old Carlos Maldonado. She describes Maldonado as a hardworking man.

“I can say that he was a person that he had a heart for everyone,” she said. Maldonado was a father, son, stepfather, brother and grandfather. The family attributes to him that he saved the life of his grandson of her Gofundme page.

“He was a warrior,” said his sister Myriam Maldonado in Spanish. “He was always there for his family.”

Hartford's fire brigade says that the fire started on the first floor of the apartment building inside the washing machine control board. It spread and displaced five families.

According to Arroyo, her household is helped by the American Red Cross, but the family has founded two separate gofundme sides for the funeral and get back on its feet. She also says that you ask the community for prayers.

“If someone wants to help and because it was as I said, a very devastating loss both physically and everything we have lost,” she said.

The funeral arrangements for Maldonado are still worked out by the family. Anyone who wants to help the family can click here.