Well everyone, in the last month of 2009 we lost our house to fire. We had heat lamps on our porch for our dogs. The wind knock it over onto a foam dog bed....
December 6th (my birthday), we awoke about 3:30ish to loud popping noises, that turned out to be bullets on the front porch. Honor was sleeping with us that night because we had company over, all 3 of us sat up in bed. I looked out my window and saw that the front porch was on fire. I jumped out of bed and woke up my cousin Rebecca who was sleeping in the front room right next to the window where the fire was. Once she was awake, i ran and got my other cousin Amber and her 10 month old daughter Amaya from Honor's room. Mark went and got the fire extinguisher, but it didn't matter. There were 40 mile winds that night, the extinguisher powder just went everywhere. we loaded everyone into the car and called 911. Mark stayed inside to see if he could do something about the fire. in short, he couldn't. he left before the smoke won.
it took the fire trucks 20 minutes to get to our house and then they took a wrong turn, so then it took an extra 5 minutes. with the 40 mile winds, our house was gone in less than 45 minutes.
So on my birthday, we lost our house, everything inside and 3 cats. sigh. its the cats i feel the most guilty about, i know there was nothing i could have done. but they were my cats. i loved them.
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