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Fwd: [RC] FIRE! - FASTGraphic--- Begin Message ---Barbara, This is Ginger. If I had thought of the possibility that our house would burn down (this stuff only happens on the news, right?), I would have kept things precious to us in different places. Imagine this, in order. This is how much time we had. I threw on a robe, shoved the children out of their bed, grabbed one of our three cats that happened to be at my feet, literally kicked the dog down the hall toward the front door (just a warning, the animals won't want to leave) and, in passing, grabbed my wallet and cell phone with my other free hand (cat in one, money and communication in the other!) and ran out the front door! The cat scratched me, jumped from my arms and ran back in the house. I shoved our children and our dog into the car. I then realized that I needed the keys to the car to move it out of the path of destruction so, unfortunately, I had to run back in to get the keys which happened to be kept right next to the front door. I'm telling you this because you can't even imagine what will happen or what you will need in a situation like that until you go through it. My advice to everyone concerned about specific items that are truly valuable to them is to either keep them in a fire resistant safe/container or store them somewhere other than your house. Trust me, the last thing you should be thinking about is trying to save those items rather than saving yourself. I realized that when both myself and Scott ran back in to the house to retrieve things like keys to your car and his computer which stores all of his writings. I was able to get the keys, he was not able to get the computer. Also, I realized that little things like always hanging your car keys next to your front door and keeping a cordless phone or cell phone by the front door really made a difference. We didn't mean to do it that way but luckily these items were all there for us to grab when we truly needed them! You can bet that I will be setting the house up a little bit differently when we get back in to it! Thank you for your thoughts! On a lighter note, our hotel room is being cleaned for us on a daily basis and I am sitting here eating room service while I type this! LOL Ginger, Scott and our fabulous family of 16 (not including our dog's unborn puppies) :-)
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