Tragic Fire

So the whole family is sitting around the house Saturday night around 11:00pm and my oldest son's cell phone rings - it's a friend, telling him that he just heard that the Emmons Apartment Building in downtown Huntington is on fire - and that's where my son's apartment is. We rushed downtown and found that the building next to his - the Emmons Junior Apartment Building - was the one on fire. (The two buildings aren't attached, and are separated by a narrow courtyard.

A terrible scene, as bad as any I've seen in Huntington (and I went to lots of fires in the early '80s as a TV news photographer) - at least seven people were killed, maybe more. My son was lucky - his building was spared, and his apartment has only minor smoke damage.

Check your smoke detectors, everyone!