fired after state of emergency?

You were fired so you do not qualify for unemployment. Trying to get it is fraud. They likely won't prosecute you because they are too busy. You were not authorized to work at home so. You are lucky that they decided to pay you anyway - it sounds like pay and go away money, basically a gift for your efforts but, they don't want you back. Your lack of ability to get a babysitter is not their problem. It is your responsibility to get to work when you are required to be there and if you need to have a babysitter at home, it is your responsibility to find one. Unless the roads were closed and you could not get through by car or bus and were too far away to walk, then you should have been at work. A state of emergency does not necessarily mean you could not make it to work and if the business did not close, then you should have been there. Everybody else managed. You have too many excuses. Mentioning them all and basically saying take your pick - makes you look like you either are not too smart or perhaps, you just thought you could get away with it - working at home. Yet, it was unauthorized so, you were fired with cause. You don't get to choose how much training you should get. The employer decides. You either pick it up quickly or you do not and you struggle a little more. Tough luck.