Another day, another fire, another four kids dead
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"Killed in the blaze were 9-year-old Ah’Dariya, 7-year-old Dar’Shawn, 3-year-old Armoni and 8-month-old Deon"
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Re: Another day, another fire, another four kids dead January 13, 2013 |
http://www.kentucky.com/2013/01/09/2469526/coroner-5-dead-in-overnight-fire.html#storylink=botprev
This is a prime example of the typical living conditions and hill billy environments I am trying to describe all the time that routinely occur in my state, with my comments in red:
Bodies of father, four children recovered in Pike County house fire
Published: January 9, 2013
"It's heartbreaking," said Darrell Compton, chief of the Shelby Valley Volunteer Fire Department, as he surveyed the ruins of the house where Billy Wilfong and his four children — Dakota, 5; Tyler, 4; Cheyenne, 2; and Emily, 6 months — died early Wednesday in the community of Jonancy. Yes, it IS sad, but you can lay odds on it the fire was caused by a faulty or inadequate heat source. They are too poor to afford an ADEQUATE home and the ability to properly heat it, yet they have FOUR kids under the age of five, including a baby. Every single winter, impoverished families in Kentucky DIE because of this totally preventable cause; TOO many kids, not enough money, and inadequate housing and/or heat sources. The answer is NOT the government buying them a home and heating it properly, it is STOP HAVING KIDS YOU CAN'T AFFORD.:headbrick
JONANCY — The bodies of a father and his four young children were found Wednesday in the living room of a house that burned overnight in Eastern Kentucky, the Pike County coroner said. You can bet they were ALL in one room because they only had ONE SOURCE of heat and it was probably not being used as it was intended, BANK on it!
To the best of their recollection, investigators said it was the worst fire in Pike County and among the worst in the state. The blaze destroyed the house on Elswick Branch Road in Jonancy, where the family had lived since at least 2008. A chimney rose from the rubble. Roberts said the blaze caused more fatalities than any fire he could remember since 1985. He said all five victims were found together in the living room. "The father and the four kids were in the same room. Evidently, they had been sleeping on pallets on the floor, probably in one room to stay warm," Roberts said. "It looks like the dad had the baby in his arms, trying to get out with it. PRECISELY what I thought. That's what ALWAYS happens, always.
"Tragedies like this, it gets to where it does bother you. Any time you lose children in a house fire like this, it gets emotional." It SHOULD bother people when ANYONE is needlessly killed in a fire!
Roberts said the fire began about 2:30 a.m. Wednesday.James Tucker, Tammie's father, told the Herald-Leader that everything was fine at the house when he was last there, about 6 or 7 p.m. Tuesday. That's an asinine comment. Things are always "fine" 8 or 10 hours before they catch fire! I fail to see how the house not being on fire at 6pm has ANYTHING to do with it becoming a blazing inferno at 2am.
James Tucker, 54, said he went to his neighboring mobile home several hundred feet away and went to bed at 11 p.m. He woke to find Tammie beating on the window and shouting, "Help me, Daddy! Help me!" Further depicting the HillBilly South Fork type of famblee trailer communities I am always describing. I am NOT making this shit up. In fact, you can see another famblee single wide trailer in the photo parked just barely beyond the smoking rubble of what was probably a dilapidated farm house built in the 1920's and an example of termites holding hands. :smn
"I looked out the window and saw the whole house lit up," James Tucker said.His daughter was severely burned, and when she poured cold water over her hand "the skin just started rolling off her hand," he said. James Tucker said he ran up the hill and tried to enter the blazing house for a rescue, "but there was no way I could get in there to help."
A relative who lives nearby told The Associated Press that she woke up to find the house engulfed in flames. Probably an aunt or cousin parked on Pee Paw's land too.
Glema Blair, the children's great-aunt, who lives behind the home, ran to the house but it was too hot to go inside. SEE what I mean? It's a damned wonder that fire didn't spread and take the whole clan out. Thus far, we have heard from daddy, a great aunt, and a "relative" and that was likely only the tip of the iceburg of "neighboring" famblee members. They ALWAYS park their trailers or live in ramshackle dwellings on Pee Paws acre, always. It's a tradition here in Kentucky and even the wealthier ones will all build homes on the same neighboring land.Hell, my sister in law lives on the neighboring 15 acres next to my 15 acres, her inlaws live on 100 acres next to hers and their homes are about 200 feet apart, MY inlaws live 2 miles down the road on several hundred acres with Mee Maw and Pee Paw, two aunts, an uncle, and a cousin ALL living on adjoining property. It's just what they do.
"There was nothing I could do. I got second-degree burns just getting close to it," Blair said.
Jasmine Tucker, Tammie Tucker's sister, said she heard from relatives who were at the hospital with her sister Wednesday afternoon. They told her Tammie Tucker was "going to be OK.""The smoke didn't get to her lungs," Jasmine Tucker said. She said Tammie Tucker suffered burns on her hands and face.Investigators with Kentucky State Police and the state fire marshal's office combed through the charred remnants of the house Wednesday afternoon. Earlier Wednesday, Doug Tackett, Pike County emergency services coordinator, said hot spots remained throughout the house. No doubt and they had better put the fire out all the way because you can bank on it those other trailers and dilapidated houses will catch fire quite easily too if just ONE good sized spark floats over on the wind.
Investigators had not determined a cause, but the fire marshal's office was investigating the possibility that the fire began in a space heater, Roberts said. Tucker said the family used an electric heater to keep warm. And it probably wasn't used in the manner which it was intended either. I have known them to saw off third prongs on the electrical cord in order for it to fit into outlets it wasn't designed to fit in, close them up in areas where they are supposed to be ventilated, break the max safety settings so they won't automatically cut off, among many OTHER unsafe things.:headbrick
No officials could recall a similar deadly blaze in Kentucky since 10 people, including six children, were killed in a house fire in Bardstown in February 2007. I recall that and the circumstances were about the same;Poor hillbillies, too many kids, and unsafe use of heating sources.
Tackett said three fire departments responded to Wednesday's fire.
The death toll shook even hardened emergency-response veterans, including Darrell Compton, who has been chief of the Shelby Valley Volunteer Fire Department for 22 years."I've worked some fires before with fatalities, but this is the worst, simply because of the number and because kids are involved," Compton said. "It's heartbreaking." Yes, it's always sad when kids are involved, we know.
Another neighbor, Evelyn Mullins, told the AP that the deadly fire shocked the small community of Jonancy, which is nestled in Kentucky's eastern coalfields.
County Judge-Executive spokesman Brandon Roberts told the AP that there had been no similar fatal fires in the county in recent years. "I can't remember a whole family perishing in a fire in my lifetime," Roberts said. "It's just, oh God." Blair said Tucker lived in the house with Wilfong, the children's father. The two weren't married but had been together for about seven years, she said. Of COURSE they weren't married! Had they gotten married before having all those kids, she wouldn't qualify tor WIC-SNAP, and Medicaid! SO FUCKING TYPICAL.
She said that she watched the kids often and that they loved to play outside and watch TV together."They were good kids; you couldn't ask for no better," Blair said.
Tyler loved to play with toy monster trucks, Jasmine Tucker said. And Dakota liked toy robots, she said.Cheyenne "was a little tomboy," said Tucker. "She tried her best to do anything the boys would do."Kim Weddington, a guidance counselor at Valley Elementary School where Dakota and Tyler attended classes, remembered the boys as "fun and outgoing, and they loved to be outside." Yeah, we know, they all lit up the room with their smiles and whatnot. Seriously, what kids DON'T like to play, watch tv, and be fun loving and all that?
Weddington brought a wreath with four blue balloons — one for each child — to the scene Wednesday afternoon.
"It's the least we can do," she said. "Our hearts are with them." Perhaps the Moo who survived will get spayed and avoid a repeat of this type of thing in the future.
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If YOU are the "exception" to what I am saying, then why does my commentary bother you so much?
I don't hate your kids, I HATE YOU!
This is a prime example of the typical living conditions and hill billy environments I am trying to describe all the time that routinely occur in my state, with my comments in red:
Bodies of father, four children recovered in Pike County house fire
Published: January 9, 2013
"It's heartbreaking," said Darrell Compton, chief of the Shelby Valley Volunteer Fire Department, as he surveyed the ruins of the house where Billy Wilfong and his four children — Dakota, 5; Tyler, 4; Cheyenne, 2; and Emily, 6 months — died early Wednesday in the community of Jonancy. Yes, it IS sad, but you can lay odds on it the fire was caused by a faulty or inadequate heat source. They are too poor to afford an ADEQUATE home and the ability to properly heat it, yet they have FOUR kids under the age of five, including a baby. Every single winter, impoverished families in Kentucky DIE because of this totally preventable cause; TOO many kids, not enough money, and inadequate housing and/or heat sources. The answer is NOT the government buying them a home and heating it properly, it is STOP HAVING KIDS YOU CAN'T AFFORD.:headbrick
JONANCY — The bodies of a father and his four young children were found Wednesday in the living room of a house that burned overnight in Eastern Kentucky, the Pike County coroner said. You can bet they were ALL in one room because they only had ONE SOURCE of heat and it was probably not being used as it was intended, BANK on it!
To the best of their recollection, investigators said it was the worst fire in Pike County and among the worst in the state. The blaze destroyed the house on Elswick Branch Road in Jonancy, where the family had lived since at least 2008. A chimney rose from the rubble. Roberts said the blaze caused more fatalities than any fire he could remember since 1985. He said all five victims were found together in the living room. "The father and the four kids were in the same room. Evidently, they had been sleeping on pallets on the floor, probably in one room to stay warm," Roberts said. "It looks like the dad had the baby in his arms, trying to get out with it. PRECISELY what I thought. That's what ALWAYS happens, always.
"Tragedies like this, it gets to where it does bother you. Any time you lose children in a house fire like this, it gets emotional." It SHOULD bother people when ANYONE is needlessly killed in a fire!
Roberts said the fire began about 2:30 a.m. Wednesday.James Tucker, Tammie's father, told the Herald-Leader that everything was fine at the house when he was last there, about 6 or 7 p.m. Tuesday. That's an asinine comment. Things are always "fine" 8 or 10 hours before they catch fire! I fail to see how the house not being on fire at 6pm has ANYTHING to do with it becoming a blazing inferno at 2am.
James Tucker, 54, said he went to his neighboring mobile home several hundred feet away and went to bed at 11 p.m. He woke to find Tammie beating on the window and shouting, "Help me, Daddy! Help me!" Further depicting the HillBilly South Fork type of famblee trailer communities I am always describing. I am NOT making this shit up. In fact, you can see another famblee single wide trailer in the photo parked just barely beyond the smoking rubble of what was probably a dilapidated farm house built in the 1920's and an example of termites holding hands. :smn
"I looked out the window and saw the whole house lit up," James Tucker said.His daughter was severely burned, and when she poured cold water over her hand "the skin just started rolling off her hand," he said. James Tucker said he ran up the hill and tried to enter the blazing house for a rescue, "but there was no way I could get in there to help."
A relative who lives nearby told The Associated Press that she woke up to find the house engulfed in flames. Probably an aunt or cousin parked on Pee Paw's land too.
Glema Blair, the children's great-aunt, who lives behind the home, ran to the house but it was too hot to go inside. SEE what I mean? It's a damned wonder that fire didn't spread and take the whole clan out. Thus far, we have heard from daddy, a great aunt, and a "relative" and that was likely only the tip of the iceburg of "neighboring" famblee members. They ALWAYS park their trailers or live in ramshackle dwellings on Pee Paws acre, always. It's a tradition here in Kentucky and even the wealthier ones will all build homes on the same neighboring land.Hell, my sister in law lives on the neighboring 15 acres next to my 15 acres, her inlaws live on 100 acres next to hers and their homes are about 200 feet apart, MY inlaws live 2 miles down the road on several hundred acres with Mee Maw and Pee Paw, two aunts, an uncle, and a cousin ALL living on adjoining property. It's just what they do.
"There was nothing I could do. I got second-degree burns just getting close to it," Blair said.
Jasmine Tucker, Tammie Tucker's sister, said she heard from relatives who were at the hospital with her sister Wednesday afternoon. They told her Tammie Tucker was "going to be OK.""The smoke didn't get to her lungs," Jasmine Tucker said. She said Tammie Tucker suffered burns on her hands and face.Investigators with Kentucky State Police and the state fire marshal's office combed through the charred remnants of the house Wednesday afternoon. Earlier Wednesday, Doug Tackett, Pike County emergency services coordinator, said hot spots remained throughout the house. No doubt and they had better put the fire out all the way because you can bank on it those other trailers and dilapidated houses will catch fire quite easily too if just ONE good sized spark floats over on the wind.
Investigators had not determined a cause, but the fire marshal's office was investigating the possibility that the fire began in a space heater, Roberts said. Tucker said the family used an electric heater to keep warm. And it probably wasn't used in the manner which it was intended either. I have known them to saw off third prongs on the electrical cord in order for it to fit into outlets it wasn't designed to fit in, close them up in areas where they are supposed to be ventilated, break the max safety settings so they won't automatically cut off, among many OTHER unsafe things.:headbrick
No officials could recall a similar deadly blaze in Kentucky since 10 people, including six children, were killed in a house fire in Bardstown in February 2007. I recall that and the circumstances were about the same;Poor hillbillies, too many kids, and unsafe use of heating sources.
Tackett said three fire departments responded to Wednesday's fire.
The death toll shook even hardened emergency-response veterans, including Darrell Compton, who has been chief of the Shelby Valley Volunteer Fire Department for 22 years."I've worked some fires before with fatalities, but this is the worst, simply because of the number and because kids are involved," Compton said. "It's heartbreaking." Yes, it's always sad when kids are involved, we know.
Another neighbor, Evelyn Mullins, told the AP that the deadly fire shocked the small community of Jonancy, which is nestled in Kentucky's eastern coalfields.
County Judge-Executive spokesman Brandon Roberts told the AP that there had been no similar fatal fires in the county in recent years. "I can't remember a whole family perishing in a fire in my lifetime," Roberts said. "It's just, oh God." Blair said Tucker lived in the house with Wilfong, the children's father. The two weren't married but had been together for about seven years, she said. Of COURSE they weren't married! Had they gotten married before having all those kids, she wouldn't qualify tor WIC-SNAP, and Medicaid! SO FUCKING TYPICAL.
She said that she watched the kids often and that they loved to play outside and watch TV together."They were good kids; you couldn't ask for no better," Blair said.
Tyler loved to play with toy monster trucks, Jasmine Tucker said. And Dakota liked toy robots, she said.Cheyenne "was a little tomboy," said Tucker. "She tried her best to do anything the boys would do."Kim Weddington, a guidance counselor at Valley Elementary School where Dakota and Tyler attended classes, remembered the boys as "fun and outgoing, and they loved to be outside." Yeah, we know, they all lit up the room with their smiles and whatnot. Seriously, what kids DON'T like to play, watch tv, and be fun loving and all that?
Weddington brought a wreath with four blue balloons — one for each child — to the scene Wednesday afternoon.
"It's the least we can do," she said. "Our hearts are with them." Perhaps the Moo who survived will get spayed and avoid a repeat of this type of thing in the future.
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If YOU are the "exception" to what I am saying, then why does my commentary bother you so much?
I don't hate your kids, I HATE YOU!
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