Monday, March 30, 2009
House fire in Gridley
There was a house fire in Gridley Sunday morning, here is link to a video showing the fire. Toward the end of a video you will see a fireman (me) on a ladder suppressing the fire. Everyone got out of the house and we saved five cats. We contained the fire to the attic, kitchen and garage but with water and smoke damage must everything was destroyed.
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As you may imagine, traffic has been heavy with "gawkers" driving by the house - including us. It doesn't look like there is anything salvagable. Terrible. I figured you were there, Casey.
I can't get the video to run. I even downloaded the latest AdobeFlash and still can't get it. I'm rather stupid that way!! I need a grandchild here to help me.
We were also "gawkers" today. Ashton, Caleb and I walked over to see the smelly, charred remains. It made the boys think how awful it would be to have a fire in their house. I used it as a "teachable moment" about never playing with matches or fire. They already know about "stop, drop and roll." The video works on our computer so I will show it to the boys when they are here the next time. Thanks, Casey!
How'd you start that fire Casey... seed corn bags?
Hee-hee
The above comment is a family joke and I wonder if any other Klops will remember where it's from.
Putting the humor aside, the video was devastating and I can only image what the place looks like now. Sam's sister had a small house fire a few years back and although it was contained to the bathroom, the house was uninhabitable for over a month. It's incredible what a fire can do.
My heart goes out to the family who lost everything, but I'm so thankful no one was lost or injured. So scary.
Shelley,
I do know of that family joke and recognized your satire immediately. I was "up at the grain office" when those famous words were spoken and heard it myself.
Good job, Casey.
I was telling the employees that story last week as we were digging his grave - the story lives on!
So can someone fill the rest of us in on the joke? :-)
His grave???
Uncle Cleve can have the honors since he would have a first-hand account.
Yes, it is cruel to leave people out of a "community joke". So take this in good taste, despite the circumstances. The loveable Bill Krones used to hang around the grain elevator at times in the early 60's. We enjoyed him. There was a pretty bad field fire South of Gridley with a corn crop partially destroyed. Bill came into the office to hang around awhile, sort of excited about the firetruck, etc. fighting the fire. Dad innocently, and teasingly, and not knowing the origin of the fire, asked Bill "How did you start that fire, Bill?" Bill, immediately and truthfully smiled and matter-of-factly said "Honegger feed sacks".
He had indeed accidentally started the fire! It was funny (and you sort of had to be there). It's been a family joke ever since.
That is a funny story..and Bill's innocent truthfulness is part of what made him who he was. He was a great and loyal friend to Dad during Dad's last years in the nursing home.
I smiled - and thought that it is kind of pitiful and yet funny too. In some ways I guess it would not be a bad thing to go through life with that kind of simplicity.
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