Ok, I feel bad that these people had the fire and lost everything and I don't have issue with them getting some help.....BUT......why the hell is this only a story because they DIDN'T have insurance? If they did, would this have even made the paper? Does a story where people HAVE insurance EVER get in the paper? Oh wait, they don't need help, they covered their own asses.
Sorry if this offends any of you. We're not exactly rockin' the good life, but our insurance is paid every month, whether we can afford it or not. Please feel free to tear me a new one, just had to throw it out there.
http://www.lfpress.com/2013/02/18/neighbours-help-amputee-escape-fireNeighbours carried a double amputee to safety after a fire
that tore through his Adelaide St. apartment left him and his wife
homeless.
Susan Bouillon was awakened by the screams of her husband, disabled
63-year-old Leo Bouillon, when the blaze started at about 3 p.m.
Saturday in their sixth-floor apartment at 1132 Adelaide St. N.
“The apartment was fully engulfed” in flames, said Susan, 52. “We were just lucky that we got out in time.”
For that, they can thank a pair of neighbours Susan says helped guide
Leo to safety from the apartment to the building’s main floor.
“One of them lent his jacket to Leo and then they carried him and his
wheelchair down the stairs for us,” she said. “I just think they’re
awesome. ‘Thank you’ just doesn’t say enough.”
London Fire officials peg the damage at about $100,000. No one was
hurt and the cause of the fire is still under investigation Monday.
The Bouillons lost most of their possessions in the blaze and, making
the aftermath all the more difficult,
they didn’t have insurance.
The couple has been given a hotel room, paid for by the Red Cross,
but that ends on Tuesday. Family members have helped pay for two more
days, and Susan said she’ll ask Ontario Works about emergency shelter
options beyond that.
Her main concern is that, wherever they land, they be allowed to keep
with them her two dogs, Belle and Beau: “They’re not just dogs to me.
They’re part of our family.”
Family friends have donated bags of clothing, she says, adding she’s beyond grateful for the help.
“I’m totally blown away that there are that many people out there who
really care. I didn’t know that we knew that many people or that that
many people would offer to help.”
While safe and sound, and clearly overwhelmed by the help they’ve
received, Susan and her husband remain uneasy about their medium- and
long-term future.
“It’s good that we are all safe, but I have no idea what we’re going
to do,” she said. “I don’t know where we’ll end up. I just don’t know
right now.”
--With files from Free Press reporter Patrick Maloney