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<div dir="auto">The clean up is going to take 1 to 2 months before we can live there again. No one was hurt including the pets. It could have been much much worse.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Laura Brody </div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div id="composer_signature" dir="auto"><div style="font-size:85%;color:#575757" dir="auto">Sent from my Samsung Galaxy smartphone.</div></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div><br></div><div dir="auto" style="font-size:100%;color:#000000"><div>-------- Original message --------</div><div>From: Jose Lerebours via Filepro-list <filepro-list@lists.celestial.com> </div><div>Date: 9/17/20 9:12 AM (GMT-05:00) </div><div>To: filepro-list@lists.celestial.com </div><div>Subject: Re: OT: Ken Brody Family </div><div><br></div></div>Thank God you all made it out OK.<br><br>A reminder of how much we take for granted each moment and each<br>day of our lives.<br><br>To think that most people disable their fire alarms because they do not<br>understand that it chirps because they need to be replaced or batteries<br>dead.<br><br>Best wishes,<br><br><br>On 9/16/20 11:44 PM, Laura Brody via Filepro-list wrote:<br>> Our eldest, Alex, woke up to use the bathroom just before 6 AM. When he<br>> came out of the bathroom, the smoke detector was screaming and there was<br>> smoke everywhere. He ran upstairs and woke everyone up. All of the kids and<br>> I were out of the house in under 2 minutes. Alex called 911 to get the fire<br>> department then he called my mother (she owns the building). I think she<br>> was there before the fire truck arrived. Matthew saw that the fire was on<br>> my desk, right near the front door. He ran into the kitchen and got the<br>> fire extinguisher. It was empty or wasn't working. He went to the next door<br>> neighbor and got his fire extinguisher. He used that and a towel on the<br>> flames that were starting, putting out the fire momentarily. The firemen<br>> got there in minutes. It flamed up and they hit it with the water hose. The<br>> fire was out.<br>><br>> The cat and rabbit were still in the house. Once the firemen let us, the<br>> kids ran in and got my asthma inhaler and some pants for me and clothes for<br>> the other kids. They looked for the pets and found the cat in the attic<br>> bedroom under a bed. It was over an hour after the firemen left before we<br>> found the rabbit. He was alive and hiding near my desk. He was breathing<br>> funny and shaking. We took both to the vet for smoke inhalation treatment<br>> (oxygen box)<br>><br>> The firemen couldn't figure out what caused the fire. Neither can we. The<br>> inside of the hutch above my desk was burned the most. It had books and<br>> paper in it. Nothing plugged in or batteries in there. My computer is on<br>> top of the desk, filthy, but not burned. Ditto on the 2 monitors, power<br>> hubs, Dymo printer and Neat scanner on my desk. I leave my computer on most<br>> of the time, so it was on before the fire started. Buns has chewed my<br>> speaker wire and keyboard wire in the past, so 2-3 months ago when I<br>> upgraded my computer, I moved my computer from the floor to on top of the<br>> desk. Any wires under the desk are covered with automotive wire protectors.<br>> A few things that were on top of the hutch got melted and burned, but none<br>> of them were plugged in either.<br>><br>> The firemen broke windows and threw everything next to my desk on the<br>> floor. The soot is covering everything. We didn't lose much to the fire<br>> itself, but the soot cleanup is going to take a while. They turned off the<br>> electric, so we are sorting stuff while wearing headlamps. The smell of<br>> burnt plastic is horrible and it is on EVERYTHING.<br>><br>> We are all camped out like refugees in a spare bedroom and the living<br>> room at my parent's house. Fortunately, no one was burned or needed to go<br>> to the hospital (the pets were fine and we took them home on Saturday). My<br>> desk is garbage, but my computer survived.<br>><br>> Kristina (Evan - transgender), set up a GoFundMe page. If you want to<br>> give us a hand, we would appreciate it. www.gofundme.com/f/24ub0ffaeo<br>><br>> If anyone wants to know more about the fire, call me at 914-739-5004 or<br>> email me. I'd rather not clutter the filePro list with a ton of non-filePro<br>> chatter.<br>><br>> Laura Brody<br>> laura@hvcomputer.com<br>> -------------- next part --------------<br>> An HTML attachment was scrubbed...<br>> URL: <http://mailman.celestial.com/pipermail/filepro-list/attachments/20200916/585be387/attachment.html><br>> _______________________________________________<br>> Filepro-list mailing list<br>> Filepro-list@lists.celestial.com<br>> Subscribe/Unsubscribe/Subscription Changes<br>> http://mailman.celestial.com/mailman/listinfo/filepro-list<br>_______________________________________________<br>Filepro-list mailing list<br>Filepro-list@lists.celestial.com<br>Subscribe/Unsubscribe/Subscription Changes<br>http://mailman.celestial.com/mailman/listinfo/filepro-list<br></body></html>