Jared McNett

SIOUX CITY — The weekend should have been a happy one for Crystal Ramos.

The 44-year-old Sioux City resident was celebrating a birthday for her son, one of her four children, with a pool party at a hotel. But in the early morning hours of Sunday, Aug. 17, she got a message no one would ever want to receive.

"I got the phone call at 3:45 in the morning by my neighbors telling me the house was on fire and I ran right up here," Ramos said, while standing on the lawn in front of her 110-year-old home along 20th Street on Sioux City's north end. The fire did extensive damage to the second floor of the home.

A for-sale sign is still out in front of the blue foursquare-style residence. The front door, which has a red tag from the city on it, blows open from the breeze. It's a qui

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