Thoughts and stories, by Pal

To anyone who has ever had a house fire this information is valuable! (and others also!)  We had a house fire many years ago, early in the morning at 4:30 a.m. in May of 1969.  I know it was then, because our daughter Tacy was just 4 weeks old. My husband, Wayne, was an early morning seminary teacher then, and his usual pattern each morning was to awaken at 4:30 a.m., have a shower, and then go downstairs to do lesson preparing for it.  This one morning he decided to go and study first, in our home in Sandy, Utah.  That was so inspired!  Within a couple of minutes he heard some crackling sounds, and was right next to our large storage and utility room, where the furnace and water heater were.  He went in, and saw flames around 3 feet high starting from a sleeping bag that was close to the pilot light flame at the bottom of the water heater!  He immediately pulled the sleeping bag away, and hollered to us and woke us all up.  We called the fire department but had the fire out