Keeping Emergency Services Busy

What a day.  I was in my second class of the day when I received a text that said the Brick House was on fire and that Firemen were on site.  I excused myself from class and called Enoch from the Best Western who sent the message.  Apparently we had a fire start down in the basement.  It was the light switch to our walk in freezer.  The wires had loosened over the years and were arching.  This caught the insulation on fire.  We were quite fortunate that one of our cooks was there, smelled the smoke, investigated, found the problem and called the fire department.  They had a hard time locating the fire as it was in the wall and smoke coming out of the wall but they managed to get to the source and get it out.  We were also quite fortunate that it happened when it did because if it had happened in the middle of the night it would have taken the whole building.  That would not have been good. 

When I walked into Psychology Anna, one of our employees, was there and was shocked to see me, she was a little freaked out and was happy I was there and okay.  The gal sitting next to her had told her all about it and they were both shocked that I was completely calm about it.  I really didn't know what was happening but I was calm about it from the get go.  I was confident that the fire department could handle it and we would handle what ever came of it.  I sent Dave a message at that point and he let me know that everything was good, that it was a close call but we would be fine.  We opened an hour late and grateful that we were able to open.

I went in after school and learned a bit more about it, checked out the area of the fire and then went about washing some dishes.  I was nearly done with the dishes when I got a phone call from mom that dad had fallen out of the bed and was puking up blood.  Dave and I were off for the folks house.  We got him up, got him in his chair and then in the bathroom.  Amy got there shortly after.  Mom had called the paramedics who arrived shortly after that and eventually took pops out to the ambulance and to the hospital.  Looks as if his bleeding ulcer is back.  Not certain that this is the case but it is consistent with what he went through previously.  At the hospital they gave him a unit of blood and then were doing a scope.  I don't know the outcome of the scope yet but he is there tonight and could possibly return home tomorrow.

Wow!  What a day.  Big thanks to those firemen an paramedics who twice took care of us today.  Grateful for their service. 

I don't know what is going on this week but it has been a tough one.  I've got a lot going on with school this week.  Not sure how I am going to get it all done and then I've got all these other things happening as well.  Have to say I had a little conversation with myself on the way home from school wondering if I should really be doing this.  Then I thought about Job and how valiant he was.  I suppose I can press on.