Fire

Thank you Lord for protecting our daughter, our home, and our animals.

We had quite an evening. While Greg, our son Mark, and I were at church at the 3rd Impact training, our daughter Kristen called. She said a house was on fire two doors down from us. There were fire trucks and gobs of people. I told her to go outside and keep away from the fire. I told Greg and he left immediately. As he came down Tegner, he saw the light and huge cloud of smoke from the fire. As he got closer to our street, he noticed many more people than usually turning down the road that leads to our house. This made it difficult for him to get home. When he got here, someone else was parked in our driveway, so he parked in the middle of the street. His first concern was Kristen, his second, our home.

They did the usual smart things, like put the dogs in the garage to protect them from the smoke. There were 5 fire trucks lined up in front of the house. When I came home an hour later, all roads leading to our house were blocked off. The fire trucks were still there and the firefighters were still pulling items out of the house. Greg was able to put the dogs in the backyard and park in the garage. There is still a PG&E truck blocking our driveway.

Here's the cool part. No one was injured and they just lost part of the roof. Apparently a lady in the house had accidentally started a kitchen fire earlier in the day and the fire dept came out. Then another started tonight. She had had a stroke some time before. I don't know if this played into it or not. She didn't speak English but had told our next door neighbor she didn't know where her kids were. Our neighbor went to Greg and Greg told the firefighters. As they were about to rush into the house, other firefighters came but found out and said no one was inside. Thankfully it didn't spread to any other houses.

I've got to say I was very proud of Kristen. She handled being home alone with all this commotion very well. She wasn't stressed at all. Well, enough excitement for one night. God is so good.