The Charlotte Community Is Coming Together to Help a South Charlotte Family Who Lost Everything They Own in an Apartment Fire

MECKLENBURG COUNTY– The Charlotte community is coming together to help a South Charlotte family who lost everything they own in an apartment fire earlier this week. Ten kids lived in that apartment and now don’t even have winter coats.

The family says they’re  devastated. But the outpouring support from the community is giving them hope.

On Tuesday, sisters Toriana and Laquite Wolfe came home to ashes after their apartment was engulfed in a blaze.

“I cried. You know I busted out crying. It was devastating,” says Toriana Wolfe.

Between the two sisters, their ten kids were living in the apartment. Now it’s an eerie sight inside. The smell of burnt metal bed frames fills the air, you can see tattered remnants of the ceiling and charred kids clothes and toys.

“The kids when they left we had like nothing but the clothes on our back.”

Ledayne Mcleese Polaski lives about a mile away from the Wolfe’s.

“I think like any mom you’re thinking, oh my gosh, my kids. What am I going to do? No clothes to put them in, it’s cold, coats for the little ones,” says Mcleese Polaski.

She’s never met them, but along with a few other South Charlotte residents, put a sound off on Facebook to gather clothes for the kids.

“To know that there are people that even though they don’t know you, they care about you and want to reach out and want to make sure you get the stuff that you need.”

Strangers helping strangers. during a time when they need it most.

You can bring clothes and other items to Sedgefield Elementary, where seven of the kids go to school.

Here are the sizes of the clothes they need: