BEDFORD, Texas — Bedford firefighters responded to a fire at the Morgan Apartments on Monday, June 10, where multiple apartments were damaged when an attic fire spread through the building, including the unit Brianna Trudgett and her family lived in.
“It's just heartbreaking that, y'know, we've lost everything,” Trudgett said.
Trudgett has come back to her apartment a few times since the fire and showed WFAA some of the charred remnants.
“I think it took about a week for the shock to wear off. But it's really hard to see everything you know,” she said. “We have not been allowed to go back in and salvage anything.”
Trudgett says each time she returns and takes everything in, she’s reminded of all her family’s things now lost in that mix of ash and rubble.
“Grandparents, you know, that have passed, gave us things and we can't get any of it,” she said.
What’s equally as hard for her to think about is the day it happened.
“I ran down this path when I saw the smoke,” Trudgett said.
She had just gotten home from running errands. Her fiance and two little ones were inside, unaware there was fire at all.
“My fiancé was bathing our one year old and so he ran out naked,” she said. “All of them were naked.”
The chaos was captured on one of the neighbors ring cameras.
“Seeing the huge flames coming out from our front door, we were so lucky we made it out,” she said.
You’d hope that would be enough misfortune, but as donations began to pour in, someone dealt the family another blow.
“On Father's Day, my boss's wife and their son drove an hour to drop off a mattress for us and a mattress for our kids,” she said. “Somebody came and stole it in the middle of the day.”
The beds were outside her mom’s house under a tarp.
“They were right here I mean, they weren't on the curb. So someone just helped themselves,” said Brianna’s mom Andrea Maahfuz.
Through it all, Trudgett is trying to be positive.
“I broke down and sobbed, I mean, it was hard,” she said. “You know, you lose everything and then you get something and then you lose it again. “
Trudgett says she hopes the people who stole the beds needed them more than they did.
A GoFundMe campaign has been launched to help Trudgett and her family continue to rebuild from their loss.
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