CORVALLIS, Ore. — A Corvallis woman is still recovering from a New Years Eve fire that took the lives of her two dogs and left her with nothing but the clothes on her back.
On New Year’s Eve morning, Guthrie left her home along northwest Highland Dell Drive in Corvallis at around 5 a.m. and returned from the gym around 5:50 a.m. to see a bright glow coming from her home. She found her entire house consumed with flames, with her two dogs, Zeus and Athena, inside. After trying to enter her burning home, Guthrie said the glass inside the home eventually exploded, and she recognized that her dogs were likely dead.
“I lived there a really long time and watching my house burn was kind of like watching all the memories go up with it,” Guthrie said. “All of the memories I took for granted, that I loved, were in that house, burned with it. My dad’s ashes were in that house. The videos I have with my dad were in that house.”
Since the fire, Guthrie said she has only been back briefly to get her two beloved dogs out of the destroyed home.
“Even though they’re gone, I needed them to be okay so that they weren’t going to sit on a tarp somewhere,” Guthrie said. “I needed to make sure they were okay.”
The dogs have since been cremated in Eugene. Guthrie is living in Salem with family friends. Everything she owned was burned in the fire, so she has had to work hard to get her insurance coverage for the home and her animals. Guthrie said she recommends that everyone make sure that their insurance is up to par. She added that blaming one’s self is not beneficial for recovery.
“Don’t blame yourself because I definitely do. I should have been home. I should have saved them,” Guthrie said.
The Corvallis Fire Department is still investigating the cause of the fire.
A GoFundMe has been set up by Guthrie’s friends to help with expenses caused by the house fire.
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