The unimaginable... ALL OUR ANIMALS LIVED through the fire!!!

Hang in there my friend. Glad to hear you and yours survived without too much harm.

Sending good vibes and prayers your way!

Bruce, I am so happy for you that it is beyond words. This has been eating at me all day and to see this post just, WOW!

Bruce, I am thrilled to hear it!!!!

All your hard work and love for those animals...

I am so happy for you :)

That is fantastic news! I will continue to pray for ya'll because I know you still have a lot to deal with.

I'm very glad that your pets survived. HUGS. If I lived up there, I'd totally take in animals.

Good news man! The Ball Python gods were smiling down at you today...

OMG!! I was crying over you losing your pets! What great news!!:) Hopefully none suffer from smoke inhalation. So glad to hear they made it!!

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Originally Posted by Bruce Whitehead

the door was literally burned off the snake room. But the snakes are fine.

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...proof that God loves snakes....:hug:

--Glad your animals are OK. Hope things are back to normal soon.

I am happy to hear your snakes survived, am sorry to hear about the disaster. I would donate to the relief fund as soon as its set up!

This room was a tomb. I will detail it all later, but now I need to collapse.

The room was dry, some smoke, but minimal. The animals are safe. I still have no fosters, and I will lose my eggs, but I am not lamenting.

We put the eggs near the heater, and I hope they make it till morning, but I do not have any hope left. A VERY small loss.

We have moved homes and I cannot reach my family, but I have updated my facebook so at least I know they will know we are safe.

Just typing is exhausting. I need to check my email, arrange what I can, and then collapse into a smokey heap (I REAK OF SMOKE STILL!!!).

Thank you all so much for your kindness and compassion. It means the world. I needed to hear those words. To know that people understood what we were going through.

Georgina... the little rescue I took in not so long ago... when we got to do our walkthrough I saw a snake shed at the bottom of the stairs. I thought it was odd and it transfixed me. Then I saw the open tupperware and remembered that as we were running out Jerome grabbed our rat stanley, placed his tub on top of her tub (she was on my desk in QT) and ran out. He put them both on the bookshelf at the bottom of our stairwell. As we got to the bottom of the stairs a fireman reached in and pulled us out. The fire was coming through the downstair neighbours' front door and into our stairwell. When I saw another few minutes and we would have died... it was literal. Our escape would have been blocked. Jerome darted back in and grabbed Stanley... ok, fastforward again. We are entering the apartment stairwell and I see this shed laying in amongst water and ash at the bottom of the stairs. Then I remember this happening. I see our bookshelf on the lawn one floor below and remember seeing them throw it over so that the firemen could get up our stairwell. I see the pile of winter coats at the bottom of the stairs.

I dropped down and started pulling through the coats and found her tub INTACT. When they threw the bookshelf out she fell behind it and all the coats fell on top of her. I do not know HOW she managed to make it. But her tub never popped and she is in perfect shape.

Georgie Girl's good luck worked for them all. Right as I handed her tub off to my friend Pierre, at that point Jer came down the stairs and told me I needed to come and get the animals out. At this point only one person was allowed in, but as they realized the animals, they called in extra firemen and extra cops so that we could have 4 people in the apt. I filled tubs and handed them off.

When it was all done I came down to see stacks and stacks of tubs on the lawn FULL of snakes. Right now they are around 4-5 to a tub. Pregnant females have one large but, and for now that is OK.

I apologize for the incoherence of this diatribe. But I cannot even reread it.

So many of my RL friends have showed up in tears over my animals, and we have received such support I cannot even begin to cover it all.

I have been blessed today beyond what I will ever know in this lifetime.

Thanks for reading.

Bruce