Some of the more than 200 residents who were displaced after a three-alarm fire torched their Kissimmee hotel two days before Christmas are receiving short-term help.

No one was hurt, but displaced residents from the about 80 units affected in the Unno Boutique Hotel fire are receiving short-term help at the Osceola Council On Aging building on Generation Way in Kissimmee, which is across the street.

Gisela and Joshua Pacheco are thankful that their children, John and Joshua Jr., and their dogs, Couture and Tiny, are OK.

But potentially losing everything in the three-alarm fire at the hotel on Irlo Bronson Memorial Highway was devastating, especially for their young children.

“It's very heartbreaking for me just to hear my son. We just decorated the little Christmas tree last night, and he was so excited decorating it... watching all that smoke and all that fire and knowing that his Christmas tree was ruined," Gisela Pacheco said.

The Pachecos have been living at the hotel since May, when they moved to Central Florida from Pennsylvania.

Affordable, pet-friendly housing was the biggest draw to the Unno Boutique Hotel for them.

“It's an unreal kind of feeling, looking around seeing people just running out, little by little, from the hotel and all gathering in the front, just wondering what’s going on," she added.

The Pachecos are now left explaining to their sons that material things can be replaced.

“(One of my sons) was just worried about his backpack and these little things he was worried about and all the toys. It was very very heartbreaking for me to hear him talk like that," Pacheco said.

The American Red Cross is on site at the Osceola Council On Aging, helping residents find alternative housing.

Replacing food donated just 24 hours before

After a few texts circulated in Central Florida, donations for displaced hotel residents poured in by the truckload.

“I was just there (Thursday)," said Reverend Tim, who runs the Stop Domestic Violence Network in Central Florida.

That’s why Reverend Tim is so passionate about helping the displaced UNNO Boutique Hotel residents.

Reverend Tim and several others held a holiday giveaway at the hotel Thursday, less than 24 hours before the blaze.

“We were there for about four hours, handing out toys, gift boxes. We handed out about 60 boxes full of food that would last them a month. It all burned up," Reverend Tim said.

Several others, many of them strangers, also donated food, toiletries and clothing at the Osceola Council on Aging building.

“When they leave, I leave. I’m not going home until they're safe. That’s the point," Reverend Tim said.

Kissimmee Middle School will serve as an emergency shelter for displaced residents. The facility is expected to be open for about one week.

If you'd like to donate money to help the victims this Christmas, Osceola County has set up a PayPal account. Go to Osceola County's home page at Osceola.org and click on the red link at the top. Donations of items and goods are being accepted with a dropoff location at the Osceola Council on Aging, 700 Generation Point in Kissimmee.