Lehigh family loses home in Christmas Day fire and community rallies to help

It was a regular Christmas morning for the Elrod family. They opened gifts and went to Christmas brunch at grandma’s house. But Justin wasn’t feeling well and wanted to go home to rest before their evening plans.

What they didn’t expect was to come home to firefighters surrounding their house.

Lehigh Acres family loses home in Christmas Day fire, community rallies to help

“As we were coming off of 23rd Street on the Sunshine, we see the ambulance and the fire trucks and lights and sirens, and we look over and we see the smoke just pouring out,” said Brittany Elrod.

His wife, Brittany, said she tried to check their home security cameras…

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