So, Mom looks out the sliding glass doors and mentions someone is having a backyard fire. Actually, it looks a little big. Yeah, that's a bit of smoke. So she calls Dad, Scott, and Chase and sends them over to check it out. Before they've even made it out the door it is totally obvious that something not good is going on. And it's going on just across the street.
Nobody is home at this hot, happening house. Old Bro. Yorgousen has called 9-1-1, so he and Dad and Chase start to man a hose or two. Scott checks out the home's windows and sees two dogs frantically yapping through one of them. So he jams the windows open and the first dog comes sailing out. The second needed a practice jump or two, but he showed marvelous persistence when it came to not dying. And both of them ran far, far away as soon as they were out, not returning for a full hour.
I watched from a short distance, viewing the side of their house opposite to the fire. Scott says the flames were 12 - 14 feet high, but all I saw was the billowing smoke and the fire on the eves of the roof. By the time Betsy and I made it to the front of the house, the fire was mostly put out. And even when I did go, the smoke was bad enough that I took her back home instantly.
It took the firetruck 17 minutes to get there. By the time they did, the outside deck, kitchen and living room were both totally lost along with much of the roof. The rest of the house sustained severe water damage.
Quite an adventurous evening, no?
3 comments:
Oh man! My mom told me that the house on the corner was on fire and that the fire trucks took quite a while to get there. She also mentioned that someone helped get the dogs out, but I didn't realize it was your hubby! Yay for him! :) How scary. Have you heard anything about what they think caused the fire, since no one was home?
Crazy, my goodness! That was quite the adventure!
Wow. So sad for those people to come home to a burnt house. Well, Drew and I actually don't play Canasta and I don't think I ever have. We are big Rook fans, though, and like to play almost any other game. Hope that doesn't burst your bubble :)
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