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Our dear friend Bill Faith, a retired vet, has had a fire in his home. He describes here:
I woke up yesterday morning to a room full of smoke. Apparently we haven't been changing our smoke-detector batteries as often as we should have. If my nephew hadn't gotten up to use the bathroom I guess we all could have died in our sleep. As it was, the fire damage was restricted to a small area in the kitchen. We have a hole in the wall behind where the stove would normally be and a hole in the floor, partially under where the stove was and extending across to just in front of the fridge. The electrician came by this morning to check out the wiring and replace an outlet and light switch that were damaged by the fire, and now we have lights, internet service, etc again but we still don't have any heat. The working theory right now is that the fire was caused by a leak in a gas line under the house....The fire apparently burned for a while under the floor before breaking through behind the kitchen stove. I'm still trying to figure out how we got by with just a fire and not an explosion.
...Aside from not being able to get anyone to repair the lines on short notice we just learned State Farm isn't paying for the repairs
He's very lucky, seems someone's watching over him.
How bout tapping his paypal button to help him out thru this ordeal.
UPDATE: Bill would like to clarify
State Farm is paying for everything I expected them to, just not for replacing some decades-old gas lines. They covered repairing the line that cause the fire, just not some others we need to have replaced in the foreseeable future so we don't have another one. That can probably wait till Social Security admits I'm disabled -- it's unusual for them to deny a claim from someone getting a VA pension, but for now they're still stalling.
