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One great-grandmother burned to death when her skirts caught fire as she was making soap over a fire in the backyard. I've read that fire was actually the number one cause of death of pioneer women due to their skirts. My other great-grandmother died from spilling a pan of boiling water on her breast. My dad's parents lost everything in a fire caused by my aunt's childhood interest in matches - something I just learned from reading a poem she wrote about it that I ran across in a cache of family papers. This particular aunt died at 13 from a mastoid infection; I knew about the housefire but had never heard the cause. I just remember feeling so sad looking at burned edges on sheet music in my grandmother's piano bench. My best friend's house burned to the ground....I walked through the messy black sludge left by the water spewed on burning wood with her, searching for any sign of her life we could salvage....I had done it before with my adjusters at homes of unknowns...this was different. My heart breaks for these people. The scars will carry for generations.
posted by
Krisles
on September 13, 2015 at 8:32 PM
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That whole thing is so frightening. Hope he and all the others stay safe
and will be able to rebuild - if not there, then in some other lovely place.
posted by
Pat_B
on September 13, 2015 at 2:35 PM
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I can't imagine the terror of being rushed from a fire and losing everything. I am wishing that these fires could end.
posted by
Kabu
on September 13, 2015 at 2:08 PM
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TAPS
I feel very sorry for your ex-BIL and all the many others caught up in those disasters, and I sometimes wonder if those fires all have 'natural' causes (lightning strikes and such) or are set intentionally...
posted by
Nautikos
on September 13, 2015 at 1:33 PM
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