LAKELAND, Ga. (WCTV) - The Lanier County community is rallying around a family facing the unthinkable.

Jesus and Reyna Gonzales and their three young kids were still settling into their dream home when it all turned to ruin.

Jesus told WCTV he was out of town Monday morning when he received a call from a neighbor.

“Your house is on fire,” he recalled hearing.

“By the time we got there it was gone,” Reyna said. “It was gone. Nothing was there.”

Days later, the couple is still in shock.

“We had everything we wanted, and in four hours it was gone,” Jesus said. “I have nothing.”

The family dog and Jesus’ truck were saved from the flames thanks to quick-thinking neighbors like Wyatt Moore.

“I looked out the front door and it was black smoke,” he said. “We hooked a chain to the truck and

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