Creek Co. Family Hoping To Recover After House Fire

By Dan Bewley, The News On 6 

Mannford, OK -- A Creek County family is trying to rebuild their lives Wednesday evening after losing everything in a fire.

It happened southwest of Mannford on Monday afternoon, just eleven days before Christmas.

"I would have never believed, in the world, this would have happened to me," said Sandra Jordan, Fire Victim.

Sandra Jordan says her life has been turned upside down. Her home was destroyed by fire early this week.

There is barely anything left just cracked picture frames and charred family Bibles.

Even the Christmas presents she had bought for her grandchildren lie in a blackened heap  but Jordan says she is most frustrated by losing the pictures and mementos of her loved ones.

"I hate to get upset like that but that was my babies' pictures, my kids, grandkids, great grandkids, I had one whole wall of nothing but babies," Jordan said.

"Take it day by day for now," said Leslie, Jordan's daughter.

 Leslie Pritchard along with her two children, her brother and father lived here.

"Mainly, besides my parents losing everything, my kids lost their dad's stuff, can't be replaced," Pritchard said.

It's been a difficult year for Pritchard, last week she and her daughter were in a car accident and last year her husband died and she moved her family in with her parents.

Now she is dealing with losing everything and that has reminded her of her husband.

"We moved in the house here and we had his belongings inside because I didn't want nothing to happen to them," Pritchard said.

Investigators says the family had a new shipment of propane the morning of the fire and that two propane heaters were being used to heat the home, but they're not sure if those played a role in the fire.

The Jordans, meanwhile, aren't sure what the future holds with Christmas a week away and their lives in tatters.

"Tonight is our last night at the motel; we don't know what we're going to do," Jordan said.