Update on Fire

As far as what exactly has happened.  We have no idea right now.  We have been running through the morning's events in our minds over and over and over.  Our insurance company has brought in an Electrical Engineer Investigator, and we spoke with him for more than an hour yesterday.  We are trying to get some housing set up on the property, and hopefully by the end of next week, we will have a mobile home set up.  The firemen have allowed us to go back into the house and the insurance adjuster has given us the go ahead to start cataloging our personal contents. 

I never, in my wildest dreams worst nightmares, ever thought I would be here doing this again. 

I know that many of you have been sending texts / emails / calls / etc asking if we need anything, and I am truly grateful for each and every offering.  We have, right now, everything we need, we are just waiting for an emergency advance which hopefully will be available sometime next week.  And as far as my coupons were concerned, I actually had my coupon binder with me.

This fire was so much more devastating.  Again, I never thought in a million years that I would ever have to compare house fires, yet here I am comparing house fire number one to house fire number two. 

We were gone for a maximum of 13 minutes, when we received a call from our neighbor, crying that our house was on fire.  When we arrived back home, fire trucks, were already in the house.  My boys.  My four-legged boys did not survive, as well as one of our two cats did not survive.  No words can describe the intense heartbreak that we are experiencing. 

Our lab, Byron, could not get down the stairs any longer, and our Mastiff, Boon, would not leave him alone.  They were found together side by side.  When we arrived home, they had just gotten the boys out, and the Warwick Fire Department tried so hard to resuscitate them, and when they couldn't, cried on our front lawn.  (I could not watch this.)  Our cat Stach, was found on our bed, and honestly don't think she ever woke up. 

I know that fire moves quickly, but we cannot comprehend this.  Not at all.  We have no answers as to why or how this happened as of yet.  We can only hope right now, that we may have some answers by the end of next week. 

I have a few good moments among the countless bad hours. 

We began cataloging our items yesterday afternoon, but had to rest today, and just try to decompress.  There is no "making sense" of this.  The only way to describe where the fire started, is that it looks like a bomb exploded.  ( I have yet to take photos of that room.)

Tomorrow will be a day of more cataloging, and with that comes countless more photos, and thanks to some great friends and family, we have borrowed cameras to get this horrible task done.  The insurance company has offered to bring in people to do our cataloging, but I need to keep myself busy, as it's the quiet moments that are the most excrutiating right now. 

I will continue to keep everyone updated as things happen.