[Bryn-gwlad] Fire at Ysfael and Eleanor's

[Jay Cross]

I am very sorry to hear about this. Y&E were two people I admired and
enjoyed the company of during my year in BG. I hope their lives recover
easily and rapidly. Fires can be a real mess.

-Anton


On Thu, Mar 27, 2008 at 1:06 PM, <maxengel at aol.com> wrote:

> We can contribute some kitchen stuff.  Perhaps some SCA stuff as well.
> How do we mangae delivery?
>
> Max
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Sean Gulick <sean at utig.ig.utexas.edu>
> To: Barony of Bryn Gwlad <bryn-gwlad at lists.ansteorra.org>
> Cc: strangemacleod at unreachable.com
> Sent: Thu, 27 Mar 2008 11:36 am
> Subject: [Bryn-gwlad] Fire at Ysfael and Eleanor's
>
>  Hi Barony,
>  Someone please crosspost this to Bjornsbourg and Ffynnon Gath as well.
>  Below is a description of the house fire that took place Tuesday night
> (early hours of Wednesday actually) at Ysfael, Eleanor and the kids house.
> Blessedly, all family members are okay down to the kittens and rabbit,
> however  I would like to put a call out to help them through this.
>  Wonderfully, Ysfael arrived him from practice in the park just in the nick
> of time to put the fire out and make sure his family was safe. My brother
> Ysfael is admirably strong in his pride, but there are times when family
> helps family.  It turns out that insurance will cover the physical structure
> of the house but not their personal items, Ysfael's work items, or their SCA
> stuff. Therefore they are in need of assistance both financial and
> importantly some immediate logistical needs.  For instance they have no
> functioning kitchen or cookware...they have camp stoves and coolers but
> nothin g to to cook with and nothing to keep food cold over the long term.
> Ysfael will need to replace his work equipment for obvious reasons. They
> lost a significant portion of clothing modern and sca.   Those that are
> local if you can help with the immediate needs of a way to cook, keep food
> fresh, etc. that would be a big help.  If you can do so contact me offline
> and I can put you in direct contact with Eleanor. Those that are farther
> away I suggest we take up a donation for their family and get it to them in
> the near future. I am inquiring into paypal as an option so if you are
> interested in helping out directly in this way please contact me offline and
> we can sort out the details.  Perhaps a collection could be taken at the
> next practice in the park if folks think that is a good idea.  In closing, I
> stress all are okay thank whatever powers your hold in your heart, but the
> crisis will not be over for them until life returns to normalcy and that is
> somethin g I believe we can help with.
>
>  In service and friendship,
> Gideon
>
>  From Eleanor:
>
>  Morning everyone, just thought that since I was already up I would post a
> message to let you all know that I awoke at 12:50 to find myself in a smoke
> filled house.  Talk about an adrenaline rush, after yelling fire and getting
> the kids out, Ari, Evan and Rebecca and calling 911  I began looking for the
> only ones I had not heard from Ysfael and Katherine, doh, they had been at
> fighter practice and had literally just pulled into the driveway, I am sure
> they had a heck of an adrenaline rush going too.  Eventually Ysfael heard me
> yelling, I heard him yelling ...we did eventually figure out that we were
> all out and ok even the dog and ALL our cats and of course our rabbit as
> well.
>     Ysfael immediately then began dousing the fire with our water hose and
> the firemen later told us that he was what saved the house.
>     Four fire trucks later two police cars and an unnecessary ambulance
> the fire was out and the house a wreck, but we are all ok if rather
> frazzled.  This will definately put a crimp in our eventing schedule.. .  We
> have partial power, 3 rooms are too iffy to turn on the circuit breakers.
>  The kitchen is totalled, the back entryway and Ysfaels work room are pretty
> much more than a fifty percent loss and the dining room is sizzled.  My
> living room looks like aliens broke through the ceiling and there is water
> and smoke damage in a good portion of the next 4 front rooms.  BUT...we are
> all ok.
>     So, if we seem a little more out of it than usual now you know why.
>
> God and all our guardian angels were looking out for us!
>
> Ysfael said "There was divine intervention.  Timing it like that ...
> looking at the near damage ... what would have happened if I were ten
> minutes later ..."... Eleanor said "in ten more minutes it may have  been to
> late for us"
>
> peace and love
> Eleanor
>  _________________________
> Dr. Sean P. S. Gulick
> Research Scientist, Institute for Geophysics
> Lecturer, Department of Geological Sciences
> Jackson School of Geosciences, University of Texas at Austin
> J.J. Pickle Research Campus (ROC)
> 10100 Burnet Rd. (R2200)
> Austin, Texas 78758-4445
> Phone: 512-471-0483, Fax: 512-471-0999
> Email: sean at ig.utexas.edu
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>
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