2020 Destroyed A Lot—But Not My Sense of Community

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Ugh, man, something else not going right in the house.We opened the windows (exactly the wrong thing to do) and checked the kids who were still sleeping soundly.

The last thing on my mind was fire. But when my husband Brian went back upstairs about 10 minutes later to check on our toddler, his room had filled with smoke.

We called my husband’s brother who is a home inspector: “You could have a fire behind the walls,” he said. “You need to get out of the house immediately.”It might sound crazy but the idea that my house could really be on fire still didn’t set in—our smoke alarms hadn’t gone off.

When I called the fire department, I actually asked them not to turn on the sirens so they wouldn’t wake up the whole neighborhood.When the.