Grace, may I hijack this thread for one post?

It is with deep sadness that the Chicago Fire Department lost two of its members on December 22, 2010. FF Edward Stringer and FF/EMT Corey Ankum were killed in the line of duty following a wall collapse at a structural fire.
On Wednesday 12/22 two Chicago firemen were killed when they were trying to put out a fire in a vacant building on the south side of Chicago and the roof fell in. One of them had only been a fireman for a little over a year and was a police officer before that- and the other was a 10+ year fireman. The building had been vacant for almost 5 years and I heard on the news that the fire might have been started by squatters trying to keep warm. It had a bunch of building code violations and I bet the owner winds up in a heap of trouble over this. But it is sad whenever this happens, especially at Christmas time.

http://napervillesun.suntimes.com/ne...o-laundry.html