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She says officials have told her the house will have to be torn down and haven’t let her back in to see if there is anything left.

The house had all its windows blown out and one side of the structure is about to fall off.

Photo by Veronica Henri / Veronica Henri/Toronto Sun

Neighbours say it was like a bomb went off.

“I’m going to have to start from new,” she said.

The explosion was so great the house was lifted off it’s foundation making it structurally unsound to enter.

“My neighbors gave me some clothes for my daughter and myself,” said Yurkovich who has moments of calm and then becomes overwhelmed.

She had no renter’s insurance.

Yurkovich says she is taking a few days off from her factory job to try and get some order in her life.

“I didn’t even call work. My boss called me and said she saw it on the news and told me to take all the time I need.”

“I had no knowledge this was going on in my house. I feel very disrespected that this happened.”

Yurkovich and her daughter are staying with her father but she now has to find a home for her pet pot belly pig who lived in the back yard.

“I have no idea where my pig is going to live,” she said.

She said she’s owned Bentley the pig for five years and is hoping to donate it to the Oshawa Zoo or transport it to her mom’s friend in Aurora.