Some Mornings are More Exciting

First, the good news: Our neighbor is fine. We're fine. Our house is fine.

The bad: our neighbor's house caught fire this morning and she managed to call 911 before escaping with her life. More bad: she started it by smoking. Now, we were worried that she was going to blow up her house when we saw the oxygen tanks delivered last week (to help with her emphysema and enlarged heart) because she's a smoker. But apparently she just set the couch on fire with a cigarette and it spread from there.

To combat the fire, there were 4 large firetrucks, 3 ambulances, lots of fire chiefs, and an entire firefighter rookie class of 20 guys or so, on our quiet little street. Very active for a while, but they've all left except for a small truck with two guys who seem to be watching the house for outbreaks.

I'm attaching a couple pics of the fire crew and one of the back of our neighbor's house showing what look like drapes hanging down, but is actually the melted vinyl siding from her soffit. The smoke was billowing out the ridge vents along the roof, the fire went up into the attic and the house appears to be totaled on the inside.

Muffin thought it was quite interesting to see all the firefighters she's read about in books and she saw both the new ECU Pirate theme fire truck plus normal red trucks. It is now 9:30 AM and I think we'll call it a day...