ORLANDO, Fla. --
An Orange County woman barely had time to save her 5-year-old daughter from an explosive house fire. It took just minutes for the small electrical fire to turn into an inferno.
The fire started Monday morning at the home on Garden Avenue near the Amway Arena. The family made it out alive, but barely.
A charred book is all that's left of the five-year-old's belongings and her mom has nothing. The family of three lost everything, including two cats and an 8-week-old puppy.
"Everything of mine is gone. I ain't got nothing, nothing. I don't own nothing," Aeisha Brown, 24, told Eyewitness News.
Raw Interview With Fire Victim Twenty-four years of belongings, baby pictures of her only child and a lifetime of memories were gone. Orange flames tore through the roof of the house Brown had rented for the last two years. She was in the kitchen when she realized she had to get her daughter and get out.
"The whole living room was orange, lit up," she said.
Little 5-year-old Makiya was in a bedroom, watching cartoons and jumping on a bed, when the fire broke out. Just one room over, is where the orange flames raced up the old, wood walls that acted as fuel.
"Just going for my baby, that's it, just going for my daughter," Brown said.
It took 35 firefighters to combat the dangerous flames that took over power lines and blew transformers. Investigators think an electrical problem with a plug started the whole thing. Eyewitness News caught up with the homeowner just minutes after the flames were put out.
"Do you know of any electrical issues home had?" WFTV reporter Elizabeth Artz asked homeowner Annie Parker.
"No, I had it all done eight to ten years ago, rewired the whole house," she said.
Now, all that remains is a charred pile of rubble that will be bulldozed and a family devastated with nothing and no where to go.
"I just don't even know where to begin from right now," Brown said.
The American Red Cross is putting the family up in a motel room for two nights. Aeisha also got a little money for clothes and food, but nothing long term has been figured out. The mom is not sure where she'll go next.
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