NEWS -- Newtown family that escaped horrors of Sandy Hook loses house in fire

The Barth family, which includes two youngsters who survived the mass shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School, lost their home to a devastating Wednesday afternoon blaze.

Hans and Audra Barth's home was condemned Friday by investigators after a fire started Wednesday in their dryer while they were at Sandy Hook school for parent-teacher conferences. Their two of three children went to Sandy Hook Elementary. The children are Shanice, 8, Jacob, 6, and Jacob, 2.

A Connecticut family with two Sandy Hook Elementary School survivors was left homeless by a raging basement fire that gutted their suburban home.
Hans and Audra Barth, along with their three children, were staying in a hotel after the devastating Wednesday afternoon blaze that destroyed their Newtown house and killed the family dog.
“We lost everything,” Hans Barth told the Daily News on Friday. “There is nothing left. They are going to have to bulldoze our home. I’m just very thankful that everyone is OK The home was empty when the fire started around 3:20 p.m. near a washing machine, authorities said. But the blaze ruined all of the family’s property and personal keepsakes.

Hans and Audra Barth, along with their three children, two of whom were students at Sandy Hook Elementary School, were left homeless by the devastating Wednesday afternoon blaze that killed the family dog.

“Every single thing we ever owned is gone,” said Audra Barth. “There is nothing. It’s been a rough year for the kids, for sure.”
The couple’s 6-year-old son Peter was a first-grader at Sandy Hook Elementary School. He survived the Dec. 14 carnage when teacher Kaitlin Roig locked their classroom door and steered her 15 students into a bathroom.
Shanice Barth, 8, was a Sandy Hook third-grader. The couple also has a 2-year-old son, Jacob.
Twenty first-graders were among the 26 people killed when a lone gunman armed with an assault rifle sprayed the school with more than 150 bullets in mere minutes.

The Barth family home was destroyed in by a fire only months after two of the children survived the Sandy Hook shooting. They also lost their dog Goliath in the blaze. 

The shattered windows and front door of the Berkshire Rd. house were still sealed off Friday with plywood, and black marks from the smoke and flames were visible on the charred exterior.