Tuesday, October 3, 2017

We had a Fire

So a lot of stuff has been going on but the big stress was we had a fire in the co-op, thankfully no one got hurt but the unit was gutted. I was just getting into a shower and some one was banging on our door yelling and my hubby ignored it and thought it was a bunch of kids, so I opened the door and looked there was nothing and I thought what the hell so I went and looked out the back door and then I heard everyone yelling fire, so here I am in my housecoat and I ran out and grab the hose and try and help the other lady who had another hose but it was doing nothing the fire was to far gone, then I realized it was heading towards my place and my hubby and birds were still in the house so I ran home and told him to help me get dressed and take the birds out. As you can imagine I was in a panic I knew I had to get dressed but I couldn't figure out what to put on and seeing smoke start to come in at the top of our wall made it worse, but we managed to get out with the birds and moved our car across the lot so I could sit in it cause I was in no shape to walk around, I was so scared and so upset. Everyone was safe and thankfully the fire stayed in the unit so we just had some smoke damage being we were 2 doors away but our next door neighbor had very strong smoke damage and of course there is no coverage for smoke damage. It's been a couple weeks and we still have a smell in our bedroom but if we keep the windows open that helps a lot. I feel so bad for the people in that unit it just went up so fast even though the fire truck was here right away, they said thank goodness we have fire walls between each unit that's what kept the fire to that unit.  This is the second fire we have had the first one happened 4 years and 4 days  from this one. Just after the fire we found out my hubby has diabetes type 2, so he is on pills and has to check his blood and of course change his diet. I am doing what I can to help him but I can only do so much the rest is up to him. The morning after the fire we also found out one of our neighbors relative passed away so you can imagine how sad it has been. The night of the fire all the co-op got together and had KFC and drinks and just sat around and talked some of them were outside till way into the night, I had to come home by 10pm I was exhausted and still had to set up a bed for us to sleep in cause we couldn't sleep in our room, but it was such a good idea to sit with everyone and just talk be support for each other, this we haven't done for a few years. Was kind of funny cause we had a small camp fire we sat around and the security guy came and sat with us, we thought the camp fire had been lifted but I guess it hadn't but we had a hose and 2 fire extinguishers so they let us keep it small. Everyone was laughing at me cause I don't drink so I went home and grabbed my big milk jug of peach tea, they kept asking if it was moonshine hahahahaha.
Whats so sad is that unit just got a new roof windows and doors but all that will get fixed with insurance, they haven't said how the fire started but the only thing that was in the corner was a lamp so maybe the dog bumped it, not sure will find out when they have wrote up the report. But the main thing is we all were okay the rest is replaceable.  

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