If, after opening the back side door and seeing the wall of flames, I hadn't grabbed a phone and raced through the old part of the house and out the front door in order to get a hose, I wouldn't be here. If I'd stopped to get my purse and car keys, I wouldn't be here. To quote fire inspector Rusty Palmer, when I lamented to him that I hadn't even grabbed my purse, "If you had, you would have died." Read More