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A North Gower family who lost everything to a fire that destroyed their home Wednesday are hoping a crowdfunding campaign will help put them back on their feet.

Mike Thompson was just returning home after picking up his seven-year-old stepdaughter Summer, who was ill, when he saw smoke billowing from the windows of his bungalow at 6703 Dwyer Hill Rd., followed by flames bursting through windows on one side of the house.

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His wife, Kirsten Neumarker, is due to give birth to a baby girl in six weeks.

The couple had been at a doctor’s appointment earlier the same day, and Neumarker was at work when the blaze broke out. No one was home at the time, and there were no injuries.

Fire crews, including volunteer firefighters, were able to bring the blaze under control after about an hour, but the house, and everything in it was destroyed.

Thompson said, by the time they returned home, nothing in the house was salvageable.