January 09

As many of you know, on January 20th the rental house Sara was living in had a serious housefire. Thankfully everyone was okay (unfortunatley everything was not but things are replaceable right!!!). Sara and her roomate Kevin were at work when the fire started. Her other roomate and that roomate's boyfriend were asleep in the house (scarry!). The fire started in the attic and thankfully a neighbor saw the flames (at around 7am). He immediatley called 911 and then started banging on the door of the house to see if anyone was home. The two in the house threw on some coats and shoes and ran out of the door. Thankfully right as they got out of the house the fire trucks arrived. Firemen are awesome! These next two pictures were from local news channels.


This pictures below is from the back of the house with the firemen trying to contain the fire that was then trapped between the layers and layers of roof and inside the house.

Below is the South side of the house. They worked on containing the fire from early morning until mid afternoon. Apparently these types of fires are very scarry and complicated because it was such an old house with layers and layers of roofs and insulation. You can easily be decieved that the fire is out when it is actually still burning and contained in a layer somewhere.Below, Sara and a friend are clearing stuff off the front yard and putting it temporarily into the detached garage. The firemen were an awesome help. Sara and another roomate are both graduating art majors and when the firemen entered the house and saw all the artwork they started hauling it out onto the front yard. Then they asked if there was anything else that anyone really needed or wanted and they kept going back into the house to save more things! They really are heroes in so many ways.

A few days later Sara went back to the house and took a couple pictures of some of the damage that she could get to safely. Right now a few of the walls of the house are still standing, but most of it has been torn down and is waiting to be rebuilt. What's left standing has big tarps covering it and it just looks like a giant crime scene.

Sara was incredibly lucky and most of her things were saved. We are especially gratefully that her artwork and all her clothes were saved. Unforunatley her couches and her bed had to be thrown out because of smoke and water damage. Thanks to all you wonderful people who helped contribute to my little surprise... we have replaced Sara's bed! Thank you all so much for your help! It was a huge load off her mind.

For now, she's going to stay living with us until she's out of school. It's been nice having her here. She's plugging away at school and spending most every waking moment of time in the studio at BSU. Chad and I have helped her a bit on a couple of her projects (dipping heavy molds) and it has been fun. We can't wait to see the final projects.

SAVE THE DATE: Sara's senior show is on April 10th from 6pm-8pm at BSU.

We hope to see you all there! Otherwise her artwork will be on display from April 10th until May 5th so check it out!