OT: Ken Brody Family

[Jose Lerebours]

Thank God you all made it out OK.

A reminder of how much we take for granted each moment and each
day of our lives.

To think that most people disable their fire alarms because they do not
understand that it chirps because they need to be replaced or batteries
dead.

Best wishes,


On 9/16/20 11:44 PM, Laura Brody via Filepro-list wrote:
>   Our eldest, Alex, woke up to use the bathroom just before 6 AM. When he
> came out of the bathroom, the smoke detector was screaming and there was
> smoke everywhere. He ran upstairs and woke everyone up. All of the kids and
> I were out of the house in under 2 minutes. Alex called 911 to get the fire
> department then he called my mother (she owns the building). I think she
> was there before the fire truck arrived. Matthew saw that the fire was on
> my desk, right near the front door. He ran into the kitchen and got the
> fire extinguisher. It was empty or wasn't working. He went to the next door
> neighbor and got his fire extinguisher. He used that and a towel on the
> flames that were starting, putting out the fire momentarily. The firemen
> got there in minutes. It flamed up and they hit it with the water hose. The
> fire was out.
>
>    The cat and rabbit were still in the house. Once the firemen let us, the
> kids ran in and got my asthma inhaler and some pants for me and clothes for
> the other kids. They looked for the pets and found the cat in the attic
> bedroom under a bed. It was over an hour after the firemen left before we
> found the rabbit. He was alive and hiding near my desk. He was breathing
> funny and shaking. We took both to the vet for smoke inhalation treatment
> (oxygen box)
>
>    The firemen couldn't figure out what caused the fire. Neither can we. The
> inside of the hutch above my desk was burned the most. It had books and
> paper in it. Nothing plugged in or batteries in there. My computer is on
> top of the desk, filthy, but not burned. Ditto on the 2 monitors, power
> hubs, Dymo printer and Neat scanner on my desk. I leave my computer on most
> of the time, so it was on before the fire started. Buns has chewed my
> speaker wire and keyboard wire in the past, so 2-3 months ago when I
> upgraded my computer, I moved my computer from the floor to on top of the
> desk. Any wires under the desk are covered with automotive wire protectors.
> A few things that were on top of the hutch got melted and burned, but none
> of them were plugged in either.
>
>    The firemen broke windows and threw everything next to my desk on the
> floor. The soot is covering everything. We didn't lose much to the fire
> itself, but the soot cleanup is going to take a while. They turned off the
> electric, so we are sorting stuff while wearing headlamps. The smell of
> burnt plastic is horrible and it is on EVERYTHING.
>
>    We are all camped out like refugees in a spare bedroom and the living
> room at my parent's house. Fortunately, no one was burned or needed to go
> to the hospital (the pets were fine and we took them home on Saturday).  My
> desk is garbage, but my computer survived.
>
>    Kristina (Evan - transgender), set up a GoFundMe page. If you want to
> give us a hand, we would appreciate it. www.gofundme.com/f/24ub0ffaeo
>
>    If anyone wants to know more about the fire, call me at 914-739-5004 or
> email me. I'd rather not clutter the filePro list with a ton of non-filePro
> chatter.
>
> Laura Brody
> laura at hvcomputer.com
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