The Fire

Last night Ty and I decided to drive home and spend the night. Ty had an interview in Eau Claire for a summer internship, so we thought we would save an hour by driving home. Around 8:30pm we were looking at the River Falls Journal news paper for a new apartment when we looked on the home page of their website and saw the picture below....

Ty said, " Hey isn't that our apartment building?" Sure enough, when we read the story it was our apartment building! We couldn't believe what we were seeing. It was quite the scare. We quickly called the apartment manager, and she told us that there had been a fire on the other side of the building (left in the picture ours is the balcony to the right of the blue awning)...she said that she didn't think there had been any smoke damage to our apartment, but we were still nervous. She couldn't give us much information at the time, so we just had to wait until the morning after Ty's interview to assess the damage. I couldn't sleep all night.

When morning finally came, we went to Ty's interview and then headed home. When we drove up to the building, all we could see was a huge black hole on the back side of the apartment building. It was nerve racking. We didn't have renter's insurance at the time (I know, I know...bad us). When we got to the parking lot and we could see cleaning crews already there trying to make it livable for the rest of the tenants. When we got to our hallway, there was no smoke damage . Then came the moment of truth, we opened our door to find that everything was OK and that there was no smoke damage. There was an odor of burnt plastic, but we were SO blessed not to have any damage! Praise God, we were safe and no one was hurt in the fire. There are many who did lose everything in the fire and our hearts go out to those people. We will be looking for ways to help those people out. If there is anything anyone else can do I will post on the blog. 

Spanish Phrase of the Day

Quien inició el fuego?

Translation: Who started the fire?