TAMPA - A Tampa father says a fire that sparked in the middle of the night robbed his family of everything they owned.

"I lost everything, everything I owned was in this home," said Brian Rhodes, walking through the charred frame of his house.

Rhodes and his five-year-old son weren’t home when the flames tore through.

"I got a call about 6 am," he said.

By the time he arrived, flames were pouring from the windows and fire crews were working to put it out.

"You could just tell everything was like, gone."

Room by room, memories erased

Pointing through the debris, Rhodes traced the outline of the life that was there just hours before. "The kitchen was all the way to the back," he said. "Master bedroom was over there."

On what used to be a hallway wall, he remembered, "I had my mom's

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