Upon returning home about midnight, my husband ask me why I had allowed our 4 younger children to fall off to sleep on our bedroom floor. I told him it was okay...we'd just leave them there because he was too tired to carry them upstairs to their bedrooms.
My oldest son went his room upstairs and went to bed,and at the same time my husband and I went to bed downstairs in the same room our smaller children were sleeping in.
About 4 a.m. the following morning, I was awakened by my oldest son telling me that the upstairs was completely in flames.
A storm was taking place,and
lightning had just struck wires in our
attic.
We jumped up and looked
upstairs...and how that boy was able
to get down those stairs, we will never
know!
We removed all of our children
and my disabled sister from the house
and stood in the front yard and watched
it burn.We had no Insurance.
After
the firemen put out the fire, I
overheard one of them telling his
co-worker that he would have to stop
by the emergency room for treatment,
on his way back to his station. I
walked up to him and ask him why he
needed medical treatment, and he told
me that a TV had exploded upstairs
while he was fighting the fire from a
ladder causing a little injury
to his face.
He waited until the fire
was out to tell his co-workers.
A
few days later we rented an old shack
to get our family back in order, so they
could start school the following
day.
The next day, a truck backed in
and I walked out onto the porch to see
who it was.
It was the firefighters with a truck
load of furniture,food,etc.that they
had purchased for my family.
For a
few weeks, we had to use T-shirts for
towels and torn up clothes for
washcloths,and an ice chest for a
refrigerator,
but in the end, we felt
like we were the luckiest people on
Earth!
We did not lose a single life. My children's clothes that I had just bought for the start of school may have burned, but that was okay.
I
was proud to allow them to start on
their first day back to school,in
hand-me-downs,
with a BIG smile
on my face!
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