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OT: holiday house fires

posted 8 years ago by crazydude1989
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Has anyone ever had a bad fire in their town right around or even on Christmas?

4 years ago on Christmas eve morning just minutes from my house a crazed gunman set his house on fire killing his sister inside and fatally shot 2 firemen and injured 2 policemen before turning the gun on himself. It was truly awful. One of the firemen was a father of 2 young children. The fire spread to a couple other neighboring houses but they've rebuilt. On the site of the house that burned down is a nice memorial dedicated to the 2 men who lost their lives. They arrested the woman who sold that guy the gun. I don't know the whole story but she had to testify in court.

On Christmas eve this year part of our town's DPW building caught on fire and most of the vehicles (plows, salt trucks) were destroyed. But the way the building was built really only confined the brunt of the fire to one section which was a total loss. We had just gotten home from visiting relatives and my dad heard the sirens as its only a few minutes away. I didn't know about it until I woke up the next morning. I drove by it today and yeah that was a bad fire. Our towns new library is right next to it but luckily the fire did not affect it.

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[–] ItsYou3 8 years ago

I was just reading about your towns DPW building in my local paper. I remember the fire on Christmas eve where the firefighters were killed. It was such a tragic story.

I was reading in the news today about a firefighter from Scotia NY whose house burned down yesterday afternoon. He is about to deploy for 6 months as part of the National Guard and his wife is pregnant with twins (she will have the babies while he is deployed). They also lost their two dogs in the fire.

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[–] crazydude1989 8 years ago

Wow so I guess you live close-ish to me then?

And thats terrible about the family's house burning down especially when mom is pregnant and at Christmas

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[–] ItsYou3 8 years ago

Same state but not that close.

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[–] mjwm44 8 years ago

Turkey fryers usually claim a few houses on Thanksgiving or Christmas down here.

[–] crazydude1989 8 years ago

Yeah I've heard. I've always wanted to try to deep fry a Thanksgiving turkey in the backyard way away from the house lol. My parents have a fairly large backyard.

Sort of OT but in 2000 when I was 11, we were singing Christmas carols with my aunt at her house and she for some reason, lit candles that almost caught the curtains on fire. Me and my younger cousins all flipped the f out, especially me  I don't think anything actually caught on fire except some fake flowers getting singed.

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