Meg Orozco has visited her Tamaqua apartment several times since it was destroyed by a Saturday evening fire, hoping to recover something - anything.

“There’s nothing in there I can salvage. It’s a total loss,” she said. “You can’t walk in there without being soaked up to above your ankles. It’s bad.”

She’s trying to rebuild as best she can, and continues to look for one of her cats that escaped and that was an emotional support for her 9-year-old autistic daughter.

The fire at 117 W. Broad St. displaced 13 and spread to neighboring properties in the borough’s business district.

For Orozco, it is the second fire she’s suffered in 10 years.

She was home with her daughter and their pets around 4:30 p.m. when she heard an upstairs tenant yelling, “Is there a fire? Is there a fire?”

Orozco climbed to a fire escape and saw flames engulfing an upper floor apartment.

“I already survived a fire so I’m paranoid. I grabbed a huge fire extinguisher, went up to the fire escape and went over to their apartment and just started spraying,” she said.

As she worked on the area, she saw an entire wall was on fire.

“At that point, I just had to flee. Go back in, close my door, get whatever I could and get out,” she said. “I got my daughter out but by the time I got back up to get my dogs, the whole apartment was consumed in smoke. It was bad.”

The three-alarm fire brought responders from across the region.

“The first fire I went though was a five-alarm” at her former New Jersey residence, she said. “It’s kind of like a repeat. I just started over. I just started rebuilding little by little.”

Orozco was able to pull two cats and two dogs from the apartment. Two cats were at large until Tuesday, when one was captured. But an all-white cat named Ozzy still remains missing.

Orozco’s daughter is extremely attached to Ozzy. And because she has special needs, she’s lost without a host of other things she’s familiar with.

Donations for the family is being collected by Jupiter’s Dust, 301 W. Broad St. The store is open until 5 p.m. most days.

“I’m just working through it for my daughter, whatever they want to donate. I’ll be fine,” she said.

The family is staying at a hotel until they can move into another apartment.

“I’m still processing it. It’s still not real. I’m still kind of numb. Whenever I go in (to the apartment), I break down. I’m just trying to keep it together for my daughter,” she said. I could be dead. I’m trying to stay optimistic. I got my daughter. I got some of my cats and my two dogs.”

The building had six occupied units.

GoFundMe fundraisers have been established for victims Jared Welsh, his wife and daughter; Nichole Beehrie, and Alyssa Kammediener and her mother, Sandra.

The Citizens Fire Department of Middleport is raising funds and accepting household items and clothing in sizes XL to 3XL for Kammediener and her mother. Donations can be dropped off at the Middleport Fire Department on St. Clair Street in Middleport Thursdays from 6 to 9 p.m.