Everything gone ? except for the cats

Six-year-old Mollie Tulloch is overjoyed her cats made it out alive.
Mollie's father Andrew Tulloch shares her delight that their four cats ? Ginger, Valentine, Jan, and Girl - all survived the freak fire that destroyed their Waingawa home during a passing gale force storm on Thursday.
"One cat is staying with us but we're leaving bowls under an oak tree for the other three, who were all born here. It's great to know they're okay. It was a major worry for Mollie."
A more pressing concern now for Mr Tulloch is the rebuilding of their home and the possible recovery of precious memories destroyed in the blaze of Mollie's mother Donna Tulloch, who died two weeks ago today.
A funeral for Donna was held at the Masterton Town Hall last Monday, he said, at which prints taken from original photographs of her were made available to mourners as keepsakes.
The originals were all lost in the blaze, he said.
Mr Tulloch appealed for anyone with the prints to contact Nikolaison's Photo Centre in Masterton so copies could be made for Mollie and himself.
"It would be really cool if people could do that ? a little bit of good luck instead."
Fire investigator Russell Joseph examined the ruins of the 25-year old home on Friday, and said there was evidence the cause of the blaze was electrical.
Mr Joseph made preliminary findings that a power surge had forced "a high load into the house as a result of the storm yesterday" after high winds ripped electrical supply wires from a power pole about 500m from the house.
"It's not common but it can happen easily enough," he said.
A Wairarapa Times-Age story on Friday outlined a witness account of power lines sparking during the squall and a supply wire to the house arcing on the metal roof of an adjoining garage.
A power company spokesman quoted in the same story said an insulator and 33,000-volt overhead line near the house had broken during the storm. A power blackout throughout Masterton about the same time was blamed on a lightning strike of the nearby Waingawa substation seen by another witness.
Mr Joseph said he would continue his assessment before making a definite call on the cause of the fire.
Mr Tulloch said he is overwhelmed with the outpouring of support from the community for himself and Mollie since the fire.
He said several offers of accommodation have been made and many people had called and visited out of concern for them both.
"The support has just been great. Really awesome.
"When this kind of thing happens you realise the basics in life are the most important ? family and friends, people who care.
"Mollie is taking it all pretty positively. I've been telling her that events like the fire are part of life, that these things happen and that we can rebuild and we'll have a new home to live in once we're sorted."