The fire in my life.

My journal entry~

If you don't know by now there was a apartment fire next door to me. The guy that it was okay to stick his cigarettes between the siding. And the inter walls lit up like a Roman candle. Most of the damage was to the kitchen in between the ceiling broads, dining room, some water damage but the worst of all smoke damage. I was lucky that I forgot my camera in the car.....so I start taking photos and there I am standing there needing somebody to document this event. But why me? All I wanted was to hit, push and kick the living cramp out of the neighbor that caused this mess. After sitting in a empty apartment with my boys plus my parents I realized I was thankful because we were safe. I sat on the floor looking at my photos and cried because I was not in one of those photos nobody froze the image of sadness on my face that night. This morning I got the chance to walk through apart of the apartment, throw stuff away and get the basics....shampoo, towels, pillow, books and toys to keep busy while the apartments get their act together. The complex did lots of work to fix and repair the damage today which it great. However there's no electricity so we have to stay in the empty apartment maybe one more night and most if not all the food is bad. So los of take out : ( We did throw some stuff away but we won't know how much until we can walk through the whole apartment after all repairs are done.I hope to move back in the next few days after the inspectors gives us the okay. But here are my photos of today......

Finishing up repairs on the exter walls by the door.The vinyl floors have a layer of smoke debry that my shoe prints.

Our new door after the fireman broke down the old one.

Repairing the ceiling and the window that the fireman broke. Still no power but we got most of the damaged stuff out now we are waiting to clean up the smoke damage and air out the apartment. And waiting for the "okay" from inspector to say it's "live able."

The lesson is if you smoke please be considerate of others and put your butts in the trash can and make sure they are out.