Thank you all for all your good wishes, and I will continue to keep you posted .

Here's something creepy that dawned on me a day or two later:

Actually, but for a snap decision I'd made, I'd have been in there when the fire started too:

I got down there around 1:30.. I guess about the time it was just starting but before it started showing signs outside. Simon's house is a couple of blocks from downtown Ann Arbor, and I had a few errands to do down there.. so I went on downtown, did my errands, then came back around 2:30.. to find firetrucks all around, firefighters running in and out of open doors, smoke billowing out windows..

My heart was in my throat as I thought.. "THE CATS.." are they in there, are they okay, any injured, ...... dead.....? have any run off out of the open doors to God knows where?...

So if I hadn't gone downtown but went straight in to the house, I would have been in there when it started too.. YIKES!