A young family of four lost all their belongings when a Saturday morning fire destroyed their house in Martin City.

Martin City Fire Chief Tom Torpen said Hungry Horse volunteer firefighters were the first to arrive at 220 Third Ave. S. at around 11 a.m. and were able to confine the fire to the back bedroom of the trailer home.

“It burned the back bedroom but the rest of the house got bad smoke damage,” Torpen said. “It’s hard to save a trailer house. Hungry Horse saved it, they knocked it down right away.”

In addition to Martin City firefighters, the Coram Fire Department also responded.

“We lost everything,” said Chrystal Baumeister, 23. “I have two small children: a 2-year-old and a 5-month-old ... Everything is gone. We have nothing.”

Baumeister said the Red Cross gave her some money to buy some emergency items and her landlord opened up another rental for them to stay in.

“But we’re sleeping on the floor with blankets,” she said.

Baumeister said she and her husband, Michael, took their children to see relatives in Coram on Saturday morning because her aunt had died the night before.

At about 11:30 a.m., she got a call from her landlord, who told her that he had been contacted by the Martin City Fire Department informing him that her home was on fire.

The family raced back to find their home was a total loss. Their dog jumped through a window and escaped with a broken foot but their cat perished in the fire.

Baumeister said she was told the fire started in an electrical panel in a back room where her children slept.

“I’m pretty sure it was electrical,” Torpen said.

For those wanting to donate to the Baumeisters, checks made out to Chrystal Baumeister can be deposited at Glacier Bank.

Clothes, furniture and other items can be dropped at the family’s temporary home at 224 Third Ave. S. in Martin City.