The Nightmare Across The Street

Me and my BFF saw Madea goes to jail then went to the mall screwed around in Forever 21 for like an hour, left, went back to her house, we're about to reach the street and there is a police man, and her street had had robbings on it recently, so we were all calm "aw man another robbing" then her older sister goes "HOLLLLLLLLLLY SH~~! SMOKEEEEE!" and it was smack in the middle of the street. Where my friend's house was. Her mom went about 100 miles an hour and tore over to the other side and it was the house across the street.

They'd moved in THAT day.

Here is everyone's names Roland (found the fire) Penny (Roland's wife) Jay (I'd known him before the fire because he rides my bus.) Brieanna (Jay's brother, who is also Penny's daughter) and then Javadrick (I thinkk.. he's four and he is also Penny's son) and then Kay (Penny's sister-in-law) and Sheldon (Penny's Brother) 

There had been a fire in the attic the whole day thanks to the fireplace, apparently, but he walked outside for a cigarette and the wall with the back of the fireplace was all red, so he kicked it and some of it crumbled off (you know how the glowing red logs look? thats how it looked), so he went inside and told them to shut off the fire quickly. They did so he sat down and then smoke started coming down through the chimney.

He kicked the wall again from the outside and the whole thing crumbled down and the wall was blazing. He ran in and told everyone to get outside RIGHT then. They ran out and grabbed the closest things to the door (plasma tv and computer) and stuck them in the flat bed of the truck, which happened to be the first thing they sprayed - the tv might still work, the computer, he said is still dripping.

so anyway, they were outside and they realized their Yorkie, Sabastion, was still locked up So Sheldon ran in the house through the fire and got Sabastion out.

This was all way before we got there, by the way.

and they called 911.

the roof collapsed and a bunch more stuff happened, and the neighbors took the crying kids away.

They stopped with the firetruck hose and began to use the GIANT thing, hooked up to the fire hydrant in my friend's yard and used the thing that shoots it down and in by the gallon.

Penny's purse was inside. it contained all their money and the truck keys, but they had the car keys. (her ID and stuff as well, of course)

LUCKILY Jay (11) who I know, had the keys in his pocket because he'd driven up the street to get the rest of the boxes from their old house.

This morning, Laura and I woke up and went to the house and looked through the windows - and not everything was gone. Most of it was. We didn't see the purse anywhere. (By the way, they had stopped spraying at 11, and waited the extra hour to make sure it didn't recatch.. they'd evacuated the house at 8. We let them in the house to do paperwork, and they went in and out because it was about 30 something degrees outside. We ended up dogsitting Sabastion, who is still at Laura's house)

Later on that day that we'd explored, when they came they went in the house. Not the kids, just Roland and Sheldon. We went over to talk to them and they said that they'd found the purse and even though it was drenched, it was alive and everything~! They'd found a lot of kids toys, too. 

Most of it, however, was dead. 

Worst of all, Kay is pregnant and due in May..

Today (the day of our exploration) the three kids came over to play the four year old didn't really understand, the 8 year old was sad, but played her heart out and Jay was just doing anything to take his mind off of it.

It was so sad.

my blanket smells like the smoke from the fire which was ALL over Laura's house and when we were outside I let Kay use my blanket.

so yeah..

it was terrible, but we can tell that the whole family is going to be great friends. 

GOD BLESS THEM.