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Osi Osgood
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Posts: 10204
From: Mountian Home, ID.
Registered: Jul 2005
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posted December 01, 2018 11:15 AM
I just need to vent for a bit, I hope you folks won't mind.
Friday morning, at 6:05 A.M., I was woke up to what sounded like gun shots, which I thought odd, especially for this time of year and in town. the gunshots increased, and then I started to hear a little yelling. I sprang from my bed to look in the hall and from the window from the back door down the hall, I saw flames thru the window. I immediately woke up my wife to get herself and the kids woke up, as I feared that the back bedroom of our house was on fire (the back bedroom is only used for storage).
I put on my shoes and robe and ran outside and found that it wasn't our trailer on fire, but my neighbor, Alan's trailer, which is only 20 feet from ours. I ent back there to see if i could help and heard Alan screaming for help from inside his trailer. I and a neighbor were trying to force our way to his trailer, but the police and firefighters were holding us back, just doing they're job.
I went back into the house to find my family completely dressed and informed them that our house was not on fire, but Alan's.
I went back outside to find that they had dragged Alan outside and were doing C.P.R. to no avail. Our neighbor of 13 years had died of burns and smoke inhalation.
In hindsidght, I am thankful that they held us back, as it took four firefighters to get Alan out of his house, (Alan, while a good man, was rather obese) and so, though I desired to help, I might well have been either hurt or killed in trying to get him out.
We were rather lucky in one way, as there was no wind that morning and so the flames were not blown onto our trailer. Our trailer is safe.
It will be difficult not to think of his screaming for help.
I had aleready made the decision to do this in the recent past, but we are going to do opur best to be out of our trailer within a years time. When we first moved in 13 years ago, we were surrounded on all sides, by neighbors. In that time, two of our neighbors trailers have been burned down and the other was torn down when the occupant left. It almost feels like we are on borrowed time, living here.
Please forgive me, as I know this has nothing to do with film, but I do feel that, though we have never met, i feel like you folks are friends. long distance, of course, but friends, just the same.
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Mark Mander
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Posts: 1236
From: Dunstable ,Bedfordshire.
Registered: Jan 2005
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posted December 01, 2018 03:30 PM
What a horrible experience Osi,very frightening for you all and poor Alan.
A few years ago in our old house we were woken up by the smell of burning,I got up and looked around and our house was fine but next door was on fire,I jumped the fence and when I looked in the neighbour was out cold on the sofa,she had fallen asleep smoking and it set the sofa alight,I kicked the door in and got her out while my wife rang the fire brigade,I managed to keep the flames back with the garden hose,she had burns but survived and so did the house,a frightening experience and that first smell of smoke for me was the worst,Mark
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Osi Osgood
Film God
Posts: 10204
From: Mountian Home, ID.
Registered: Jul 2005
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posted December 04, 2018 11:43 AM
Thanks bill (and all others) ...
One thing about "trials" in life, they are not there to destroy us but to refine and strengthen us, so I tend to look at things in that-a-way.
Beyond even that, there are those that have suffered far worse than I and my family, take those folks down there in the California wildfires ...
So, put in the proper perspective, I am still thankful and grateful. ![[Smile]](smile.gif)
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