Sept 28, 2020: The Fire
We were watching TV around 10pm and saw/heard a huge bolt of lightening strike just outside our house--that kind of lightening that makes a huge cracking sound and makes your stomach twist. I went to bed at 10:30, and at 11:30 I woke up to our street

being flooded with fire trucks and voices were screaming outside. Patrick was gone and I couldn't get him on the phone. The lightening we saw at 10:00pm had struck a house just up the street from us, and caught the top level on fire. Neighbors were outside screaming at the doors

and windows of the house, saying that an older man lived there and they thought he was home asleep and they were trying to wake him. There was no response, and finally Patrick busted out a window of the house, broke inside and started looking for the man.

He found an older man fast asleep in his bed, with the ceiling above him on fire. Patrick was yelling at him to get out of the house, but the man wouldn't wake up. Patrick finally had to physically remove him from the house. Turns out he was deaf, so he couldn't hear the yelling.

The man had mild carbon monoxide poisoning from being asleep in a burning house for an hour, but he will be fine. Patrick has some cuts and his shirt got burned, but he's fine as well. The fire chief said that Patrick was a hero, and I agree.

People always ask, "would you run into a burning building for me?" Well know I know the answer.