Warning KPL'ers: The kitty-haters are here. Don asbestos underwear and set SENSE_OF_HUMOR=ON
Posted on 10/17/2006 6:00:01 AM PDT by presidio9
After a disabled woman's cat started a house fire, her specially trained dog came to the rescue, then died trying to help the cat still in the house. Jamie Hanson said the 13-year-old dog named Jesse brought the phone so she could call 911 and also brought her artificial leg.
"She got me outside and then she heard the cat upstairs and she went up there to get the cat and she wouldn't come back to me," Hanson, 49, said at a news conference Monday at Aurora Sheboygan Memorial Medical Center where she was being treated for her injuries.
She received third-degree burns to an arm in the fire Sunday night at her home in the town of Rhine south of Elkhart Lake, the Sheboygan County Sheriff's Department said, adding that both pets died in the fire.
Hanson, who lost a leg in a car accident three years ago, said she was on the couch watching television when the cat ran over the back of the couch.
"And he jumped onto a table that had a candle on it and tipped it over and lighted the artificial plants on fire," she said.
Hanson said she fell off the couch and was unable to get her artificial leg from the table, "so my dog got my leg for me and went and got the phone and brought the phone to me so I could call 911."
She said she tried to put the prosthetic leg on, but it was too hot, and the dog, a golden retriever-German shepherd mix, came to her aid again before going back inside for the cat.
When rescuers arrived, the house was fully engulfed in flames, the sheriff's department said. Hanson was in the doorway and was assisted by a deputy.
She was no longer being treated at the hospital when The Associated Press called Monday evening for further comment.
Are you talking really local to Hagerstown? Unfortunately, I don't know much at all once you get to Frederick.
But Frederick has Mt. Olivet, which you can see from 70 and isn't far from the baseball stadium. We've been there too (that was when I became Pres; the Rose Hill was near the end of my tenure).
"If anything, this is a story of "stupid cat"!"
Actually it is a story of a "stupid person" that burns candles in such a dangerous place. Let this be a warning to all FReepers that candles are dangerous and fires spread very quickly.
That is why I have resorted to a candle warmer these days. With kids and cats it is the best thing I ever bought!
I used to be on res hall staff at my U. We would show a video that depicted a fire started by a candle in a dorm room. It was a real fire in a mock room, the fire was started by a candle when the curtains blew into the flame. The rate of spread and the heat was astonishing. It was a real eye opener for the incoming freshmen.
Have camera; will travel....:)
Which ball field?
The "Harry Whoever" ball field [can't recall his last name...LOL!] one near Wal*Mart and Costco?
I'll go quite a distance for really great old graveyards.
I'd be grateful for any leads you can give me.
It's not too early to start planning motorcycle trip/photo shoots for next summer....:)
[feel free to FReepmail me to protect the locations and safety of the cemeteries, if you want]
Oh, yeah, after glancing at your profile I must say: GO TIGERS!
(I was at the last game of the season for the Yanks...)
I didn't think they would but those things actually work!
Thanks for your condolences!
I don't know what to do with all my free time, I had plans to be in front of the TV all through October!
:(
Oh gee, thanks for that photo....at least I'll have good fodder for nightmares, later....:D
Don't worry, you will get to see the Tigers trounce the other NY team.
My company puts me up in Rockville (Gaitherburg actually) when I am working in DC. If there is a more boring place in the lower 48, I don't want to know about it.
I believe they will go all the way and quite quickly. They will be well rested that's for sure!
Thanks for the good wishes.
My mom gave me a beeswax candle in glass container shaped like a beehive.
I asked her how in the world I was supposed to burn the crazy thing so she handed me an extra candle warmer she wasn't using.
It does melt the wax and *so far*, the wick is still intact....probably because of the very odd shape of the container.
I do burn other fruit and spice scented candles the normal way but I have no cats and *usually* my dogs stay off of the table tops.....;-D
The new "jar candles" are great.
The come in various styles [I love the Mason jar types] and have lids.
When you're done burning it or about to leave the room, you just screw the lid back on and no worries about the flame not being completely snuffed.
Warning KPL'ers: The kitty-haters are here. Don asbestos underwear and set SENSE_OF_HUMOR=ON
Thanks!
This candle happened to be a very pretty hand me down from my mother (one of those ornate, twisty layered things).
It's gone now!!
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