Maxine Saves the Family From Fire (No Joke)

This morning we awoke at 4:00 am to Maxine barking. Not entirely unusual, but the odd thing was once we woke up the whole house smelled like smoke! Jimmy started screaming, "It's a fire, implement fire emergency procedures. Get dressed quickly! We need to move the animals into the truck."

When I turned the corner and looked at the backyard the building behind us was in flames and our gate was on fire too!

Within minutes I was dressed and we had all the animals (one by one) in the truck and I had the truck moved out of the driveway and out of harms way.

These dark pictures are what we woke up to, the fire bright against the night's sky.

At this moment, 6:59 am there is a gas pipe open and on fire that the firemen have to keep watering until the city comes and turns off the gas.



Thank the city for such a quick and amazing fire department or our house would have burned down. As it stands now, all the animals are inside and safe A little shaken up, but just fine.




The fire is still going as I write this. Day is breaking so we can get some better pictures of the destruction in the back yard. Our garage is half burned and half drenched in water. The whole back yard is a mud bog and the back gate is burned down. But we are all safe.