Quote Originally Posted by bae View Post
All of the above. These poor folks lost everything that night, the night before a major holiday.

It was heartwarming to see the whole community pull together to help them re-equip over the next week.
Wonderful story... reminds me of a time decades ago when DH and I were in the crapper and so DH had second job as a bartender in Greenwich, Ct which was about an hour south of where we were living. On one late night drive home through the northern Westchester towns, he passed a fire up on a hill, and he noticed the house was on fire! So he drove up the driveway and there were no emergency vehicles there yet and the family was frantically trying to get as many belongings out of the house as they could. He asked the owner how he could help and the the owner said, "Please grab the paintings!!" So DH ran in and made several trips rescuing artwork from the home.

At that point, the firetrucks finally arrived, and then the police. When DH saw the police car he freaked out--we didn't have money for car insurance. He was afraid the police would for some reason ask for his insurance and registration so he silently slipped away and came home.

To this day we laugh because we can imagine the owner looking around for the "angel" that arrived out of nowhere to save some of their precious possessions and seeing that he had "flown away." It must have made for a good family story.