Fire Update
No people were injured, still no word on the dog. It was definitely arson. As I have heard it, some kids were seen buying gasoline at a nearby convenience store. Assuming that is true, I imagine they will be found very quickly, as it's on film and we know what their truck looked like. They apparently broke in and doused the lower story with gas.
The woman is a counselor who works with troubled young folks, apparently. Doing good work, trying to help people, all that jazz. Some reward. Little bastards.
I did get pictures (there was nothing else to do but stand there and stare in horror; by the time I got outside, it was obvious there could not have been anyone alive inside), though they are pretty inadequate to illustrating the scale. In the first, you can see part of the rear of the house sagging and starting to shear away.
I offer those purely as proof of how destructive it was. Click through and go to "all sizes" to see the original size pics, which are a little bit better for scale.
I am waylaid with the flu, or I would be out buying fire extinguishers and smoke alarms -- not that either would have helped these people, but it does make one paranoid.
The woman is a counselor who works with troubled young folks, apparently. Doing good work, trying to help people, all that jazz. Some reward. Little bastards.
I did get pictures (there was nothing else to do but stand there and stare in horror; by the time I got outside, it was obvious there could not have been anyone alive inside), though they are pretty inadequate to illustrating the scale. In the first, you can see part of the rear of the house sagging and starting to shear away.
I offer those purely as proof of how destructive it was. Click through and go to "all sizes" to see the original size pics, which are a little bit better for scale.
I am waylaid with the flu, or I would be out buying fire extinguishers and smoke alarms -- not that either would have helped these people, but it does make one paranoid.