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Monday, July 23, 2012

A little too much excitement

What a crazy morning we had Monday.
Monday is the day I work with the Dr, so I go in a little later than usual. Bob left before I did, and about 10 minutes later he called and said I might want to leave earlier than usual because there was a fire in town and the main road was backed up with fire trucks, etc.
As I was gathering my things, I got a call from my friend Nancy at work. The fire was just down the road from the nursing home, the road was blocked and I would have to park and walk in.
So - I took off, and parked at the Burger King about 5 minutes from the nursing home. I walked to the road the nursing home is on and this is what I saw:


Lots of fire trucks, police, ambulances and the tv stations, all lined up down the road.



Here is the house that was on fire, it doesn't look bad here, but the people that went through a little earlier had pictures with smoke coming out all the windows.



Several different fire departments came to assist.

Once I made it to work, I answered several phone calls from people who were concerned that the nursing home was on fire. It was crazy seeing our parking lot so empty and watching assorted staff come walking up the road.

We found out that the fire started in the attic. The family that lives there has small children, but everyone got out all right.


This is what it looked like when I left work. Lots of things were piked outside, and it looks like the roof sustained a lot of damage.
However, things can be replaced, glad the people are ok!