TurretGunner
03-08-14, 07:54
Got a call at like 10AM from my GF. Her apt people called and said there was a fire in her building(Odenton, right in front of Ft. Meade). She leaves work (Annapolis) and is balling. Try to calm her down.
Fire started on apartment next door on 3rd floor and spread quickly. Everything from the top 3 floors is gone, poof... disappeared.
Shitty situation but they are young, have great family and friends and ill bounce back. There were some .mil personal that lived there too and the support group/chaplins/CoC were great helping their people out.
I had a Tavor and a G26 at her place....both are melted somewhere on the 1st floor after everything collapsed.
Luckily the apartment complex requires all tenets to have liability renters insurance with a $20K minimum. I know its not a lot, but it will help them rebuild what they owned. I truly feel horrible for the people who either don't have friends/fam in the area or aren't in the military as they really have NOTHING besides what they are wearing. Amazingly, no one was injured and most pets were rescued.
I left work and got there before 12am doing about 120 on 295 and the fire was out for the most part when I got there. must have been 30 engines and support vehicles there.
Two real things I just wanted to point out.
1.Red Cross is amazing. They truly are a first rate organization and did everything they could to help facilitate insurance claims, they brought care packages and even put the people up in hotels for a couple days. I am soo impressed by the red cross workers I am going to change my CFC donations this year to the Red Cross. Whatever political or otherwise BS problems people have with them, They were the first on scence and honestly, the only ones who were doing anything with the families who lost everything. Hell the rental office was signing LEASES with new tenets when there is a smoldering fire 100 feet away.
2. Insure your valuables. A gun safe would not have done shit here. A fire can easily spike to 2000*+ degrees and that would destroy any safe on the market under $5K. Even if they had some high end safe, it would have fell though 3 floors with the rest of the junk. ALWAYS insure your stuff, and especialy your guns. My policy is "worldwide" so USAA should take care of me.
Here is some videos:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UP6kZtpw9x0
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gRqPdid68Bc
http://www.wbal.com/article/105912/3/crews-respond-to-a-3-alarm-odenton-apartment-building-fire
Fire started on apartment next door on 3rd floor and spread quickly. Everything from the top 3 floors is gone, poof... disappeared.
Shitty situation but they are young, have great family and friends and ill bounce back. There were some .mil personal that lived there too and the support group/chaplins/CoC were great helping their people out.
I had a Tavor and a G26 at her place....both are melted somewhere on the 1st floor after everything collapsed.
Luckily the apartment complex requires all tenets to have liability renters insurance with a $20K minimum. I know its not a lot, but it will help them rebuild what they owned. I truly feel horrible for the people who either don't have friends/fam in the area or aren't in the military as they really have NOTHING besides what they are wearing. Amazingly, no one was injured and most pets were rescued.
I left work and got there before 12am doing about 120 on 295 and the fire was out for the most part when I got there. must have been 30 engines and support vehicles there.
Two real things I just wanted to point out.
1.Red Cross is amazing. They truly are a first rate organization and did everything they could to help facilitate insurance claims, they brought care packages and even put the people up in hotels for a couple days. I am soo impressed by the red cross workers I am going to change my CFC donations this year to the Red Cross. Whatever political or otherwise BS problems people have with them, They were the first on scence and honestly, the only ones who were doing anything with the families who lost everything. Hell the rental office was signing LEASES with new tenets when there is a smoldering fire 100 feet away.
2. Insure your valuables. A gun safe would not have done shit here. A fire can easily spike to 2000*+ degrees and that would destroy any safe on the market under $5K. Even if they had some high end safe, it would have fell though 3 floors with the rest of the junk. ALWAYS insure your stuff, and especialy your guns. My policy is "worldwide" so USAA should take care of me.
Here is some videos:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UP6kZtpw9x0
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gRqPdid68Bc
http://www.wbal.com/article/105912/3/crews-respond-to-a-3-alarm-odenton-apartment-building-fire