I don’t exactly live in the sticks but I do live outside of town just enough that you rarely if ever hear an EMS siren of any kind. This morning though I was sitting around watching some stupid ass B movie on HBO and this siren comes roaring up the street and stops in front on my place.

Of course my curiosity was enough to get my lazy ass up to go investigate. I first looked out one of the side windows and saw an ambulance sitting in the driveway. I figured something happened to a neighbor or something and headed for a window on the other side of the house. I look out and there sits one of several fire engines. My first thought was WTF, when did they get here??

So now I’m in nosey neighbor mode and decide to head outside. I hit the door and I can see a feeder line running from the hydrant up the street and I’m thinking “Rut Ro”. So I go outside walk down my steps and turn the corner to see the little old lady’s house across the street in flames. Apparently all this went on for 20 minutes before I even knew what the hell was going on.

I came in grabbed the cam and snapped off a few pics while talking to the 50 other nosey neighbors that were congregating on my street. The word was it took the FD 15 minutes to get there and get a single hose on the blaze. Sad considering there is a company less then a mile up the street and they were present. (Eventually) I volunteered when I was younger off and on and have been to my fair share of fires and I never saw so many firemen standing around doing absolutely nothing.

Seriously there must have been at least 50 present if not more. (Seriously) Why I have no idea as the fire was fairly small in scope and most of them just stood around pulling pud. In the end the house was pretty much a total loss.

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I had been entertaining the thought of getting Renter’s Insurance for some time but I kept putting it off. I’d think of it and forgot about it in the same moment and while I knew I should have it I never really thought of it as a priority.

This was an eye opener to see someone’s entire life go up in smoke. Everything they owned gone in a blink of an eye. In the end this was a little too close to home so I decided to get my ass some insurance. I’d suggest doing the same as once the fire starts you’re shit out of luck.