LANDER - Family, friends, and community members are joining together to support victims of a mobile home fire in Riverton that claimed the lives of three small children and has left a 29-year-old woman severely burned and in critical condition.

Bridgett Mullins, who was air-lifted to the University of Colorado's burn intensive care unit following the Aug. 7 fire, had her second surgery in four days Friday, to help repair severe burns, according to her mother, Donna Dinges, who sent an email to the Star-Tribune on Friday.

Supporters this week established a benefit fund for Mullins with the Bank of the West, Marcy Cates, the Torrington branch manager, confirmed Friday.

Money can be deposited into the fund at any Bank of the West branch, Cates said.

Mullins' great uncle, David Joy of Arapahoe, is also organizing a dinner and auction to raise money to help pay for Mullins' medical and living expenses once she gets out of the hospital, Joy said Friday.

The auction has tentatively been scheduled for the afternoon of Sept. 14, and Joy will confirm the location in the coming days, he said.

Mullins has been heavily sedated since her arrival at the hospital and is still relying on a breathing tube to keep her lungs open, her mother wrote Friday.

In a previous conversation with the Star-Tribune, Dinges said her daughter suffered third degree burns over 30 percent of her body and damaged her lungs while struggling to save the children in the burning trailer.

The blaze started at the front of the mobile home, and burned the entire place in a matter of minutes, authorities said last week.

Nine members of an extended family had been inside the trailer at the time, including seven young children.

Mullins' children survived the blaze, but her sister-in-law lost two boys and a girl in the tragedy.

A separate benefit fund for Mullins has been opened at the Atlantic City Federal Credit Union, Joy said, and another has been established at Wyoming National Bank to help Rachel Mullins, the mother of 1-year-old Ezra Black, 2-year-old Kathryn Mullins and 3-year-old Jesse Black, who died in the fire.

Joy said anybody who wants to provide items for the upcoming auction can contact him at 307-709-0224, or via email at djoy@wyoming.com

Bridget's daughters, Sierra and Sativa, have both been released from the hospital, and are now in the custody of their father, Dinges said recently.

Contact Chris Merrill at chris.merrill@trib.com or (307) 267-6722.