Fire on Christmas Eve displaces six people and seven pets in West Valley

WEST VALLEY CITY, Utah — On Christmas Eve, while many families were wrapping gifts, cooking, and preparing to celebrate, one family in West Valley lost nearly everything in a house fire.

“You never expect something like this to happen to you, and when it finally does, you’re not prepared,” Leila Callaway, a daughter-in-law of the family, said Saturday.

Callaway got a call that morning that her in-laws’ house near 3800 South and 2500 West was on fire. She rushed over to their home to find that a fire that started inside her family’s garage had blown out a window — causing soot and smoke damage throughout the entire house…

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