TUALATIN, Ore. (KPTV) — A mother is picking up the pieces as her family navigates tremendous loss after a two-alarm fire in Tualatin. The fire not only severely damaged their home but also led to the death of one of her children.

Mother Celia Volk said a two-alarm fire near Piute Court on Monday night has rocked her family forever.

“It was so noisy, it was so chaotic, I thought they every single one of them was out there,” said Volk.

She thought every one of her children was out of the house when the smoke alarm went off and the fire began to spread, but she soon learned that her eldest daughter, Michelle, was missing.

“All the little things you take for granted that you have and that you can do, and the people that you think are still there, and then they’re not, there is just no way

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