Family back home for Christmas after fire destroyed their home last year [Video]

This year Christine Gatt and her family will be celebrating Christmas at their Paola home – after spending most of the year putting it back together when it was wrecked by a terrifying fire just before Christmas 2023.

“We spent nine months coming to our home every evening to scrub and clean our charred home. We had to go through all our belongings, throw out what could not be saved and save what we could. We cleaned, scraped and scrubbed walls, floors and ceilings.

We did most of the work ourselves, but help came in from everywhere. People gave us furniture, clothes, food and even new tiles and a kitchen,” says Christine as she stands in front of their donated Christmas tree together with her husband, Patrick, and their two young sons Zaylen, six, and Zyon, three. 

Their home was wrecked when a fire broke out in the boys’ bedroom on November 28, 2023. The house was already decorated …