FAIRLESS HILLS, Pa. (WPVI) -- A Fairless Hills man known throughout Bucks County as "Santa Scott" is being lifted by the same community he's brought joy to for more than four decades after a fire destroyed his family's home over the weekend.

Scott Diethorne and his family lost everything when flames tore through their home on Auburn Road late Saturday night.

Diethorne, his wife Nancy, two of their nine children, and one of their 13 grandchildren were not home at the time as they had gone out to celebrate a birthday.

"We were debating whether to go or not because we were a little tired, so it was like 8:30 and we said, 'Fine, let's go,'" Diethorne said. "Good thing we did because we probably wouldn't have made it out."

Tragically, the family's two Italian mastiffs, Tio and Ozzy, and th

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