Hey guys i havent been on for awhile so i figured id explain why.
Well it was just like any wednesday...come home from school (im 14) play video games for a bit...hang with friends...eat. go play ftbl at the abandoned lot. come home...shower...go to sleep.
So i get woken up at ~1:10 in the morning by my mom yelling and opening my window. Once i gain awareness of what is going on... i realize tht i cant see shit. theres a horrid plasticky smelling smoke all throughout our house. i followed my natural instinct to run. as im leaving my room to go downstairs my dad grabs me from behind and yanks me back into my room. at this point me my mom dad and older sis(16) are3 in my room. my dad runs to my window tht opens to a small roof over our back door. he tries to open it but it wont budge...so he braces and kicks the window out.
At this point mine and my dads only thoughts are to get my sis and mom out of the house...so i hop out first and get ready to help my sis and mom exit from the house. after everyone gets out i grabbed my phone and called 911...in the middle of the call my dad realizes tht my oldest sister isnt outside with us. as he gets ready to go back in( me right behind him) i notice her outside with our shihtzu puppy. she somehow had managed to run down the stairs and get outside unscathed. at the sight of our shihtzu i immediately thought of our 8 yr old yellow lab. i got half way thru the window before my dad grabbed me held me crying(me not him :'().
As the firefighters medics and police arrive they get us off the roof via ladder and begin to extinguish the fire. as they put out the fire they said they had found no signs of Sam (our lab). at this point i burst into tears(first time i had cried since my grandfather passed away when i was 9) cuz Sam had always been "my" dog. so after 10 minutes of fire and an additional 20 minutes of time for the smoke the smoke to clear. i hear my sister scream and i immediately thought "oh know...hes dead isnt he". when i got there i saw sam walking out of the house virtually unscathed.
So three days later were at a hotel with our dogs and sam starts breathing really really heavily. so we took him to the vet and waited for hours. the vet came out with tht look tht indicates it isnt good. i immediately get teary eyed thinking "no, not now, not after he made it out...not like this!" he goes on to tell us tht atleast 70% of his lungs are burnt and tht his stomach is filled with air which is casing the dry pukes and wheazing. he then says tht he gave him a 10-15% chance of living. he then said tht they would keep him overnight to see if he would heal. the next day we go back and sam had already started to heal. the doctor said he had never seen a dog heal so quickly from any injury.
as of today we are staying in a rental home while the insurance company figures out what they are gunna do with the house. early reports are atleast $80,000 in structural damage alone. if they decided to repair the estimates are at around $120,000-150,000 just for rebuilding(not included like: furniture, furnishings, etc.)
im glad to be ok and despite not believing in god...im beginning to think tht maybe... just maybe....(ill leave tht for another thread :)
the police and firefighters said tht they were surprised i was holding it together so well. i told them tht this was nothing...(i got a concussion when i was 12 and as a result had 3 seizures after tht). so as of now i feel i can handle almost anything.
Well it was just like any wednesday...come home from school (im 14) play video games for a bit...hang with friends...eat. go play ftbl at the abandoned lot. come home...shower...go to sleep.
So i get woken up at ~1:10 in the morning by my mom yelling and opening my window. Once i gain awareness of what is going on... i realize tht i cant see shit. theres a horrid plasticky smelling smoke all throughout our house. i followed my natural instinct to run. as im leaving my room to go downstairs my dad grabs me from behind and yanks me back into my room. at this point me my mom dad and older sis(16) are3 in my room. my dad runs to my window tht opens to a small roof over our back door. he tries to open it but it wont budge...so he braces and kicks the window out.
At this point mine and my dads only thoughts are to get my sis and mom out of the house...so i hop out first and get ready to help my sis and mom exit from the house. after everyone gets out i grabbed my phone and called 911...in the middle of the call my dad realizes tht my oldest sister isnt outside with us. as he gets ready to go back in( me right behind him) i notice her outside with our shihtzu puppy. she somehow had managed to run down the stairs and get outside unscathed. at the sight of our shihtzu i immediately thought of our 8 yr old yellow lab. i got half way thru the window before my dad grabbed me held me crying(me not him :'().
As the firefighters medics and police arrive they get us off the roof via ladder and begin to extinguish the fire. as they put out the fire they said they had found no signs of Sam (our lab). at this point i burst into tears(first time i had cried since my grandfather passed away when i was 9) cuz Sam had always been "my" dog. so after 10 minutes of fire and an additional 20 minutes of time for the smoke the smoke to clear. i hear my sister scream and i immediately thought "oh know...hes dead isnt he". when i got there i saw sam walking out of the house virtually unscathed.
So three days later were at a hotel with our dogs and sam starts breathing really really heavily. so we took him to the vet and waited for hours. the vet came out with tht look tht indicates it isnt good. i immediately get teary eyed thinking "no, not now, not after he made it out...not like this!" he goes on to tell us tht atleast 70% of his lungs are burnt and tht his stomach is filled with air which is casing the dry pukes and wheazing. he then says tht he gave him a 10-15% chance of living. he then said tht they would keep him overnight to see if he would heal. the next day we go back and sam had already started to heal. the doctor said he had never seen a dog heal so quickly from any injury.
as of today we are staying in a rental home while the insurance company figures out what they are gunna do with the house. early reports are atleast $80,000 in structural damage alone. if they decided to repair the estimates are at around $120,000-150,000 just for rebuilding(not included like: furniture, furnishings, etc.)
im glad to be ok and despite not believing in god...im beginning to think tht maybe... just maybe....(ill leave tht for another thread :)
the police and firefighters said tht they were surprised i was holding it together so well. i told them tht this was nothing...(i got a concussion when i was 12 and as a result had 3 seizures after tht). so as of now i feel i can handle almost anything.