Donna
what a horrible, tragic thing to happen to you, to your family! I'm so sorry to hear that.

and also so awful about the poor puppy!

thanks Phred. I bet you and Donna have alot of stories to tell?
I bet fires start for all kinds of crazy reasons?

Like I have posted before, I have had 2 experiences with fire before, one was the moving van that caught on fire because of the idiots SMOKING!! smoking in the truck with all our stuff, we came back from McDonalds and there they were! it was raining, so they didn't want to be outside, well they had no business doing that, and obviously were not careful about putting out the cigarettes! and we were dumb for not telling them to not do that, but we had no idea of that happening!
the second time it was very minor but could have been alot worse. I had a candle burning and forgot to blow it out before I went to bed, and a t-shirt was near by... thank God I had a smoke alarm!

the wood stove story reminded me of at the family cabin many years ago, there is a wood stove. I was alone at the time, and I went to warm myself by it and there was a tack poking out of the carpet , I put my hands out to catch myself, right on the stove, talk about DUMB!! the palms of my hands were burned! I had to rub ice cubes on them for 45 minutes before the burning feeling stopped!