Update

Thank you to everyone who has shown such great care and compassion for our neighbors. Their tragedy has been a serious wake-up call for a lot of us.

*They did find a cause of the fire -- we were wrong about the old furnace. There was a gas leak in the line under their house. It's been super rainy lately and apparently when that happens it forces the gas up, and that just happened to be through a crack in their foundation. There was no way for them to even see it coming. Talk about scary!

*Joe is doing much better than anticipated. His son, Joseph, is an ER doc and gave us the update tonight. He said his dad is still on the ventilator, but hopefully will be weaned off soon. Peggy will be going in for skin graft surgery tomorrow, but is handling things very well. Somehow when it comes from a doc who sounds optimistic it makes you feel a lot better.

*So our video footage has come in pretty handy. Not only did the news crew use it, but then yesterday the Fire Marshal came over to view it. Then tonight Joseph stopped by to ask for a copy, and while he was here the insurance company came over asking for one, too! I guess it's going to really help their lawsuit with the gas company. So there's a good plug for keeping your cameras handy! And a great big THANK YOU to the Thieles for providing us with the ability to capture it all! THANK YOU! THANK YOU! THANK YOU!