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

Bruce, I am so glad that everything is turning out better than you had suspected at first. I hope that you can get on your feet quickly. Those pictures are amazing .. and sad knowing what it has done to a friend. Fires are never good, but when you know the person involved .. it make the pictures and the event even harder to take in.

We are behind you 100%.

Bruce, thank you for the update and as always, our hearts are with you. I'll have to get Deb to translate that for me since what french I once learned in school has long ago left me. I'm still calling it a miracle that you, Jerome, the rats and the snakes made it out of there in one piece.

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Originally Posted by Zoe

Hello everything!

I am Zoe, and my dear husband (our fearless driver) and a friend of ours made it to Bruce's today to pick up all of his snakes. Despite the sad circumstances, it was a pleasure meeting Bruce and his very kind and generous friends, and it is an honour for us to be helping Bruce and his lovely snakes through this.

All snakes are settled in now, and we're confident that they will be absolutely fine. Even the eggs have a fair chance.

We'll be keeping you all posted with pics and reports... but that'll have to wait until tomorrow, as it was a long day and now that the snakes are settled, we need to, too.

Thanks,

Zoe

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Zoe, there are just no words good enough to say thank you for what you stepped up to do for a stranger in need. People like you, your husband and friends are so very precious and so very rare. You have the thanks and respect of this site for doing what most of us are too far away to be able to do.

I've sent a quick PM to you here.

Wow Bruce, that is incredible. I am so happy for you. It just goes to show that good things happen to good peope. :gj:

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Originally Posted by Zoe

Hello everything!

I am Zoe, and my dear husband (our fearless driver) and a friend of ours made it to Bruce's today to pick up all of his snakes. Despite the sad circumstances, it was a pleasure meeting Bruce and his very kind and generous friends, and it is an honour for us to be helping Bruce and his lovely snakes through this.

All snakes are settled in now, and we're confident that they will be absolutely fine. Even the eggs have a fair chance.

We'll be keeping you all posted with pics and reports... but that'll have to wait until tomorrow, as it was a long day and now that the snakes are settled, we need to, too.

Thanks,

Zoe

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Welcome Zoe, and THANK YOU for fostering Bruce's animals! Those babies, when they pip are going to be miracle babies for sure!

Welcome Zoe, and THANK YOU for fostering Bruce's animals! as said before by other it rare to find people willing to open their hearts to help other ( specially when it comes to reptiles), WE all pray for quick and happy reunion for bruce and his beloved colection.

Hi everyone, I'm the "friend" that made the trip down with Zoe and Thierry yesterday.

Honestly, it was great meeting Bruce and his friends. (Bruce: Thanks your friends for us for opening up their home for a few hours and being just so all around fantastic!) If only we could have met under better circumstances. Or known that it was Bruce's birthday! If we had known, we would've brought a cake. :D

You folks are a fantastic crew here. All the well wishes to Bruce are simply astonishing. The support is just great. I believe Bruce would've done the same thing for someone else in a similar situation which is what made it so easy for us, I think, to do what we could to help. His love and passion for his animals was very apparent and they are all wonderful, well cared for examples of what fantastic animals look like (even after surviving a fire!).

I gotta say... Hearing the stories of how quickly the fire spread were scary. The fact that the snake room survived so in tact made my jaw drop. What an experience. I can't even imagine... So really, at the end of the day, how could we sit by and not help?

Thank you Bruce for trusting your snakes with us. We'll take good care of them and I'm sure we'll all post some updates when we can. :)

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Originally Posted by Bruce Whitehead

http://www.zone911.com/index.php?opt...=5922&Itemid=1

This is the news report... :(

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Originally Posted by blackcrystal22

Oh, I wish I could read it.
But the pictures explain enough. :[

Bruce, did you own the place?

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Here is the text in English

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Fire throws several people on the street
25-04-2009 25-04-2009

A fire broke out alerts 5 Saturday April 25 2009 at 5548 St-Denis (corner of Caramel) in the 30 barracks.

The fire occurred at the rear of a residential building of 3 floors and has spread to nearby buildings. Upon arrival at the scene, the officer of the 230 trucks passed the code 10-07 to 06h36, followed by the 2nd alarm for 06h38 and the 3rd alarm for 06h46. The fire starting to grow a 4th alarm was transmitted at 06h48 and 06h52 to 5th alarm. Thereafter, we asked the help of 12 units in reinforcements.

According to Chief Operations Gilles Ducharme SIM in it to obtain Fire as much as possible because the flames took the magnitude of the balconies and neighbors should evacuate all people.

A man aged 42 suffered burns to one foot, a firefighter also suffered a heat stroke. At first glance a cylinder of a propane barbecue is the cause of this major fire.

About twenty homes were evacuated. The Red Cross took the victims who find themselves on the street.

Two dogs, one of which was in bad shape, he received first aid by the Emergency Health technicians in order to give oxygen.

Montreal Firefighters have controlled the fire after three hours of an arduous struggle. A firefighter was slightly injured during the operation.

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Originally Posted by Mettle

Hi everyone, I'm the "friend" that made the trip down with Zoe and Thierry yesterday.

Honestly, it was great meeting Bruce and his friends. (Bruce: Thanks your friends for us for opening up their home for a few hours and being just so all around fantastic!) If only we could have met under better circumstances. Or known that it was Bruce's birthday! If we had known, we would've brought a cake. :D

You folks are a fantastic crew here. All the well wishes to Bruce are simply astonishing. The support is just great. I believe Bruce would've done the same thing for someone else in a similar situation which is what made it so easy for us, I think, to do what we could to help. His love and passion for his animals was very apparent and they are all wonderful, well cared for examples of what fantastic animals look like (even after surviving a fire!).

I gotta say... Hearing the stories of how quickly the fire spread were scary. The fact that the snake room survived so in tact made my jaw drop. What an experience. I can't even imagine... So really, at the end of the day, how could we sit by and not help?

Thank you Bruce for trusting your snakes with us. We'll take good care of them and I'm sure we'll all post some updates when we can. :)

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Stephan thank you so much for what you've done to help Bruce. You, Zoe, Thierry, Ian and all the rest have our deepest respect for stepping up like this for a stranger in need. So many of us care about Bruce but are far away or in another country so are unable to physically do much to help him out. You've given Bruce a wonderful gift of kindness so he can focus on his own needs while knowing his beloved snakes are safe and being cared for. Thank you again. :)

What a sigh of relief. I can't say that all is alright, but at least the animals did ok. Thanks also for the update Bruce, as you know all of your Brothers and sisters here at the site are praying for you.

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