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This home at 211 Mill St. was destroyed in a fire on Monday. The family is accepting donations on behalf of the homeowners. (ENP FILE PHOTO)

Donations are being accepted for a Mill Street family who lost most of their possessions in a fire on Monday.

Leslie Huntington, Jessica Lewis and three children lost most of their clothes and personal items in the blaze, which started around 4:40 p.m. Monday. While the couple had moved most of their furniture to a new home they were moving into, they hadn't gotten to moving more intimate and day-to-day items.

Huntington's sister, Carla Patterson, said this afternoon that the family has received enough clothes for the children but are still in need of many items, including:

• Men's large and extra-large shirts and size 32/32 pants
• Women's small and medium shirts and size 3 pants
• Boys shoes size 10
• Boys shoes size 1
• Household items including dishes, pans, blankets, and bedding
• Dressers (while the dressers themselves had been moved to the new house, the drawers were still in the old house and destroyed by the fire)
• Tools (Leslie is a roofer and lost most of his tools, including a portable air compressor and nail gun in the fire)
• Gift cards

Huntington added that the family couch cushions were also lost in the fire. "We had moved couch, but we had left the cushions in the house. So we need a couch now."

The hardest loss to recuperate may be $2,600 in cash and materials for a job he was working on, but Huntington is keeping it all in perspective.

"The main thing is that my kids are okay. The other stuff can come back eventually," he said.

He said he appreciates the offers of support. "It definitely helps out a lot."

Those looking to donate can contact Patterson at 471-0108 or cpatterson@realtyusa.com. She can pick items up from those who are unable to deliver them.

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