It was one of those nights that felt like a dream.
Too bad it wasn't!
Thayne woke up quite a bit earlier than he normally has to get up,
Which is ridiculously early anyway.
He decided rather than trying to go back to sleep, he would just stay up
and go into work early.
Strangely enough I was wide awake too.
He kissed me goodbye and turned to leave the room when his phone rang.
I could tell by the sound of his voice that it wasn't work.
He said, "I'll be right there!"
and then told me that Jace's apartment building was on fire!
He ran out the door and took his work truck while I woke Kailee,
Put some sweats on and ran out right behind him.
It only takes a couple of minutes to get to their apartment but that morning
it felt like an eternity and when I came around the bend in the road
I saw flames... and started praying harder.
I wondered how anything could be saved.
Thankfully the fire department was there,
For the second time that night it seems.
The first time, they put out a fire in the couch.
The man upstairs started it with a cigarette.
It was put out so imagine their surprise when they were called there AGAIN...
They were NOT happy.
Jace wasn't happy either!
These are the neighbors that give apartments a bad name.
You know the type.
The ones you hear all night screaming at each other.
The man calling the woman bad names,
Screaming at the baby to shut up because he is crying like a baby does.
Where he is drunk more often than he is not.
This isn't the first time the fire department was there...
Over the summer they were there for the same people, same reason.
The second time that night, it is believed that he started the fire on purpose!
Jace actually caught him leaving...
Quietly... just leaving.
Thankfully Jace had heard them and heard the smoke detector going off in the upstairs apartment.
Otherwise everyone may have slept until it was too late.
He called 911, and woke the neighbors.
The fire department protected Jace and Caitlyn's stuff and were very careful with the water so that their apartment was spared.
But it is unlivable!
Worst part is that our area is booming and finding a place to live is HARD.
Hopefully it will be ready to live in again in 2 to 3 months.
Caitlyn said at first she was just grateful that they were able to get out and everyone was safe, and then that they were grateful that their stuff wasn't destroyed...
But then, as she was packing up stuff she said it just made her angry!
I agree!!!
I am grateful they are safe... most of all that they are safe!
I am grateful that their stuff wasn't destroyed.
But it makes me angry that a man is so self centered that he is so careless that more than once he started a fire with a cigarette...
But even worse, that he started the last fire ON PURPOSE!!!
We got home around 5am and I was surprised that I fell right to sleep.
When I woke up, I forgot that I had been up for several hours already....
and then I thought, "What a bad dream..."
and then I realized that it wasn't a dream!
I have to admit that I did not want this summer to end. I just wasn't ready for the first day of school. I was enjoying my kids way too much, and did not want this day to come quite so fast. I am sure Kassi had other ideas since it is the start of her senior year and she has great plans and dreams to start living... so to her, it couldn't come fast enough. Me? Well, I just wanted the lazy days of summer to continue, on and on for many more weeks.
