The Forsyth, GA home of Haleigh Cox, for whom Georgia's new medical marijuana law was named, was destroyed by fire Tuesday.

FORSYTH, Ga. (WXIA-TV) -- It's a tough setback for the Cox family, whose medical struggles helped change Georgia law, helping countless other families.

Fire destroyed the home of Haleigh Cox and her parents, Tuesday.

Haleigh, who is now six years old, and her parents, Janea and Brian, helped lead the fight to make medical marijuana legal in Georgia. "Haleigh's Hope Act" became law this year.

Janea wanted nothing more than to move Haleigh back home to Georgia after more than a year in Colorado, to continue Haleigh's cannabis oil treatments here, thanks to the new law that bears Haleigh's name.

Tuesday afternoon, Brian was home in Forsyth, mowing the lawn, when suddenly he saw flames leaping out of the windows of their home.

"And he pretty much told me that the house is a total loss," Janea said Thursday, from Colorado.

The Monroe County Fire Chief ruled the fire accidental, due to an electrical short.

The double-wide was the only home the young family has ever known together.

Wedding photos, Janea's wedding dress, Haleigh's rocking chair, and many other irreplaceable family keepsakes are gone.

"It wasn't the most beautiful house, it wasn't my 'dream' house, but that was the house [where] Brian and I started our lives together.... We brought Haleigh home for the first time in that house.... I can point out every place where she had her 'first,' like her first laugh, her first time she sat on her own, first time she was able to stand up. I can point all of those places out in that house, and you feel the hope. When she started having seizures you could look at those places and just feel hope that that will come back again. And I know everybody's, like, it's just stuff, and you can keep the memories in your head, but, it was there.... It's just indescribable, it's heartbreaking thinking about it.... I was just so ready to be home, and that's all I was trying to do was just trying to get back home."

PHOTOS | Cox family home destroyed by fire

Ironically, Brian is himself a firefighter, with the City of Johns Creek Fire Department.

"I'm sure he would have been in there fighting the fire with them if he had the gear. I know a lot of his 'brothers' [his fellow firefighters] have been really rallying around him.... to help him get through this."

Janea said she tries to stay positive. While talking with 11Alive News she fought back tears of gratutude for all those who are reaching out now to help her whole family through this.

It was just four months ago when she broke into tears of joy, as the Georgia legislature passed Haleigh's Hope Act, legalizing medical marijuana for countless patients across the state who have certain medical conditions.

Haleigh had been suffering seizures that, by the hour, were so numerous and severe, she was often on the verge of dying.

In March, 2014, Janea moved Haleigh to Colorado, to save Haleigh's life, she said, then. In Colorado, Janea legally treated Haleigh with drops of medical cannabis oil.

Haleigh's seizures soon subsided to just a few a day, and they are relatively mild.

The passage of the legislation in Georgia meant that Janea could move Haleigh back home from Colorado, and treat Haleigh's seizures at home.

"We get to come home," Jenea said in March. "That's the best thing. We get to come home for a while."

It was just last week when the state of Georgia approved their medical marijuana application.

"Brian actually picked up her [registration] card, I think last Friday."

Janea and Haleigh had their plane tickets home.

They were planning to move back home this coming Monday, August 3.

"So I don't know when we'll get back home," Janea said. "Right now we don't have a home to come to..... Brian's working on it and I know he's doing the best he can, he's doing an amazing job and we love him so much, and I'm just happy he's safe and nothing happened and I'm glad he was not in the house.... Haleigh's 'legal' in Georgia, so we would be able to have the medicine with us and be safe.... I just feel like [the fire] is a bump in the road that may take us awhile to get over, but we'll get there, eventually."

Kevin Mills, the pastor of their church, Northway Church in north Bibb County, says members have begun raising money to help the family -- to help them get by until insurance payments arrive, and to help them pay for what insurance does not cover.

People who want to support the family can donate through the Northway Church website or by visiting the church at 5915 Zebulon Road. Other information can be found on the Hope for Haleigh Facebook page.

WMAZ contributed to this report.