Well let me be the first to say, I am so glad to hear
that neither you or Maria suffered any injury. Like
many of us I saw the inferno on the news. I can only
imagine what it looked like in person. It certainly
could have been much worse interms of life and health
lost.
Having said that, a fire in your apartment building
really sucks. I know that you are not having the best
year and you deserve better. I hope the smoke damage
isn't too and that you get back into a nromal routine
again soon.
Alan
--- Scot Zediker <roadsterboy@earthlink.net> wrote:
> By now, several of you have seen the news of a huge
> fire in an
> under-construction shopping center in San Jose, CA.
> So you probably also know
> that embers were blown over I-280 into an apartment
> complex. Well, I live in
> that apartment complex.
>
> Yesterday was also my first day at a new job (it's a
> temporary assignment, but
> I'm glad to just be working again). I heard several
> people talking about the
> big fire at Santana Row, and I commented that "I
> hope it stays on its side of
> the freeway, because I live nearby there."
>
> At 4:15 I got a call from my wife saying traffic
> would be nasty getting home
> because of the Santana Row fire. Fifteen minutes
> later, I got a call from her
> daughter. She told me she had seen TV footage of a
> building in our apartment
> complex with its roof on fire. I managed to finish
> my day there, but I
> immediately went home.
>
> It took me almost an hour to get back to my
> apartment, which is only four
> miles from work. Every street leading there was
> blocked off. I had to park
> my car at a shopping center half a mile away and
> walk in. My wife had called
> and told me she was standing in the driveway leading
> to our complex. She said
> the landlord had told her there were some hot spots
> on the roof of the
> building where our apartment is located, but that it
> was structurally sound.
> However, nobody would be going back in until at
> least midnight.
>
> This afternoon, during my lunch break I went back to
> our apartment. They were
> allowing people back in, but they required everyone
> to check in at the gate
> and then escorted people to their apartments (or
> whatever remained of them).
> My entire apartment reeks of smoke. The door now
> has a hole in it from being
> kicked open, and there is some water damage in our
> bedroom, but otherwise
> everything in there is okay. I started pulling my
> autocross trophies off the
> wall, but then I remembered that our apartment was
> still livable and there was
> really no sense in taking anything major from the
> apartment. So I wound up
> just grabbing a couple changes of clothing and
> heading back to work.
>
> Bottom line is, even though all our stuff smells
> like smoke, we still have all
> our stuff. Some of our neighbors were not so lucky;
> I saw a guy carrying a
> leather jacket on a hanger. He said it was the only
> thing in his apartment
> that survived the fire.
>
> Maria and I are staying with her daughter for the
> next couple of nights.
> We'll be okay.
>
> Later,
> Scot
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