Struggle to keep home for partner

The sister of fallen firefighter Izabella “Izzy” Nash’s partner Bec has described the family’s “bad dream” while telling of the struggle to keep the home the couple bought together.

Ms Nash died in hospital after running out of air while at a factory fire in Slacks Creek at Logan on May 2. Her colleague Lia Drew was also seriously injured.

Since the incident a GoFundMe campaign has been set up to help Ms Nash’s partner, Bec Weinert, keep their home.

Bec’s sister Jessica Weinert said she was trying to help her sister avoid losing everything.

“Bec and Iz worked really hard to get their first house together and a car that they both loved, and now Bec is kinda facing losing all of that because she is one income and it was a circumstance they never saw coming at all,” Jessica said.

“And we’d like them to keep the home they had together.

“The only way they could get into the market was to buy an older home, which they did and it was three bedroom but they’ve had to rip out a bathroom and a kitchen.

“It’s a half done renovation and Iz was definitely the renovator out of the two.”

Jessica said the whole incident was traumatic.

“It’s horrifying, but for us it felt like a bad dream, to be honest the day it happened – it was just it can’t be real,” she said.

“It’s hard for our family, we keep walking around like lost puppies.”

But all the family was trying to do was support her sister.

“She’s very lost. Izzy and her were partners, best friends, everything, so she’s lost her person to talk to, she even said I just want one more conversation with her – so I can get it all off her chest – but she is trying to stay in high spirits,” she said. “Obviously nothing we can say or do can ease the pain. It has been pretty hard to watch her go through, that’s for sure. It just seems so out of character for Iz, something had to go wrong, I think the investigation side of things is going through Bec’s mind a lot.”