I am going to vent - deal with it!!!
 

Yesterday as I was sitting here working, my hubby calls and says he is going to be working late...... I asked why and he tells me some 18 yr old girl caught an apt building where he works on fire and burned 8 families out of their homes. As horrified as I was at the thought of this and his having to deal with this with just him and his boss...... it gets worse.

This is the place where me and my family spent 3 years trying to get back on our feet.. it's a Government Housing Authority. Not your typical "projects" type place, but nice families that are just trying to get back on their feet and a couple of disabled elderly people. So imagine the horror there.

Ok it gets worse.. the fucking Fire Dept sends ONE truck to the scene with only a Volunteer Fireman...and on this truck there was not one tool to open the fire hydrant to get the water going to the damn fire, my husband had to go to a nearby resident and get tools to do that because the fireman was just looking on the fire in total horror!! It took the rest about 30 minutes to show up.. by this time there was a young man, who looks to be about 20 or so, he was called from work and told about this..... he gets on scene and told his wife is nowhere to be found.... he goes into total frantic behavior and shock and runs up to this fireman...... this damn fireman looks into this kids face and says "Let us suit up and we will look for bodies". Meanwhile my husband and two other RESIDENTS are running around frantically in clouds of smoke and fire trying to find this guys family (wife and 5 month old baby), he asked the cops and they basically just tell him to stand back........ what the hell kind of place is it where you are already poor and you can't even get help finding your family???

Ok as it turns out, the local Church had come and picked up the women with the babies so they were out of the cold. My husband and two of his residents were key factors in aiding to get this fire out while the firemen just all but sat there watching the damn building burning 8 families out of their homes... THEN the REAL firemen from two adjoining cities pop up and get it out pretty fast but by then all was lost.

Wanna know what started this damn fire? The little bitch that started it drops a damn zippo on the couch and it's lit.... torched the whole damn place...... she was a meth head so rumors are flying and investigations are running wild...... So to any that wonder why I have such a problem with hard drugs... not so much pot, but the hard ones..... THIS is exactly why I have aproblem with them. Because of her and her damn stupid bullshit, we now have 8 families out of a home and lost what little they had to their names.

I'm sorry.. I just get a bit out of shape when people treat people that don't have alot like they are some kind of pond scum and do not deserve the same treatment as those who have everything. Give me a break...... ONE Volunteer Fireman to put out a fire on a two story building. And then tell a frantic husband they will suit up and go look for bodies? Jesus CHRIST!!!!!! I was where they are not so very long ago, so I know how they feel....... it's just all bullshit to me!! Where are peoples morals these days?

Tam

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thank god you were venting from your high hole and not your low one. http://bbs.gofuckyourself.com/board/smile.gif

Hahaha, smartass........ God you are awful.... and always and forever have your mind in the damn gutter.... do you ever let it out of the gutter for air? LMAO

Tam

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Tam I'm sure glad that you moved out of their when you did...

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Lightning.. me too but my kids and my family are still good friends with most of these people and my hubby works there.. so they are all like a family to us.... it's just sad to see them go from just above nothing to nothing like that.... real danm sad. I helped them all I could but I am no millionaire myself ..... http://bbs.gofuckyourself.com/board/frown.gif

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no, I'm lower than dirt. ask around. http://bbs.gofuckyourself.com/board/smile.gif

Sorry Tam, that fucking sucks with a capital S. Growing up a broke hippy's kid in Oregon and now a fairly well off soon to be wife of a successful man in a very upscale area, I know all too well about the difference in treatment among the classes.

I live in Manhattan Beach which is now a wealthier enclave than Beverly Hills....5 miles to the east is Inglewood, which most of it is a ghetto. While, here, police AND fire respond to calls of a cat in the tree in about 45 seconds, in Inglewood its damn near impossible to get a policeman EVER, nevermind an ambulance if you need one.

Here my son goes to school in a gorgeous building with a whole wall in his classroom that is a sliding glass door that opens up to a gorgeous courtyard where they often sit in the sun and hold class, his school also has shelves and shelves of extra books, this year the parents have already raised over $200,000 dollars for "incidentals" like parties, new flowers, and other nonsense, they have too many teachers and each teacher has their own assistant and their pick of resources.

In Inglewood? One book for every three children, if that, holes in the roof, shortage of teachers and even the ones that are there are not qualified...most have never even been to college. Violence, drugs, unhealthy environments and to top it all off.... virtually no protection from authorities of any kind.

IT MAKES ME SO SICK!

And it's like it is in Inglewood across the vast majority of LA. I should know, when I first got here I lived in a god awful neighborhood in Long Beach, and another in East LA and then Los Angeles city proper.

And that's just schooling...the disparities are shameful in so many ways.

I cannot wait to move away from these spoiled, clueless assholes. As much as I would love to be able to enjoy the benefits of living here, I cannot help but feel guilt and total contempt for these people. Their selfishness and greed. The way they raise their children to be snotty and ungrateful.

I know that's getting off the subject a tad...just wanted you know that I feel your pain and contempt for the bullshit that people with less money have to go through. I know that it is more complicated than that...Socio-economics, Political exclusion, City/State/Federal economic infrastructures that purposefully keep them down, racism...I could go on forever. But, that doesn't take away from the unfairness of it all. And what about the babies? Just because they were born into a certain "class" they deserve to have such an incredibly different existence than their more financially fortunate peers?

See, now I'm pissed...best go cool off. http://bbs.gofuckyourself.com/board/smile.gif

nahh... you are just misunderstood is all..... *covering my mouth so you can't see the smirky grin*

Tam

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Tam,

I'm so sorry that happened....just a word of warning though, does your hubby have medical insurance? You might want him to go get check out, and tell the Dr. that he was running in and out of smoke where a known meth user was...

If that lady was cooking the drugs, the fumes are VERY TOXIC.

I was in the crime free multi housing program here in Vegas, and the police taught us if we had a lab move out you practically have to remove everything carpet, possibly drywall, etc. to get the toxcidity out of the apartment if the lab was active for a length of time.

Just a caution.... http://bbs.gofuckyourself.com/board/frown.gif

Tam, I can understand how you feel. I had a married friend's wife burned down their trailor home last year. Luckily, the family was out to eat supper so no one got hurt & they had insurance.

The fire started because the holder of an oil candle broke. His wife was sure that the flame was out & she suspects it might have been a minor gas leak. Of course, they have two brats...er, nice kids.

They moved to another trailor at the same trailor park. They had gas inspectors check everything over befoe they moved in. Sure enough, there was a leak in the stove gas line.

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Well these people have no insurance and since it was not the fault of the Management/Owners, there is not really much they can do about getting the families other means of living until that building is rebuilt. Which leaves them all just dangling and struggling once again to find other places to live. In the county where I live in the Housing Authority places are very nice so they always stay packed full......

The building will be torn completely down and rebuilt... which will take God knows how long to get that up so these families will be without even more while waiting.

As an update to this.... the manager and my hubby did talk them into taking them in as apts become available and open..... most of them will have a place to go within a couple of months, but what they do until then is what I am concerned with. I am just so thankful no one got hurt in it.

Web_Mistress, I have been watching him like a hawk... calling him at work and checking on him.. the whole bit. http://bbs.gofuckyourself.com/board/smile.gif I think I am getting on his nerves, but I can't help it. LOL

April.... MOST, not all.. but most rich folks make me sick. We aren't having to struggle like we were, and I don't make alot of money, so I am not by any means rich.... BUT I know I make more than most of the people around here and I still go out in my sweats and t-shirts........ rich people just piss me off... I wanna walk up and slap them and tell them to just snap out of it. http://bbs.gofuckyourself.com/board/smile.gif

Tam

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Sounds like you have been given a mission Tam! Call all the local TV and radio stations and see if you can get a movement going to help those people and others that will go thru the same thing. Get a building space donated to hold donations of clothes, furniture etc. So when this sort of thing you can bring the people in to have a new Christmas. You can get canned foods and aall sorts of things donated from grocers as well. Most are too happy to donate since its a writeoff.

Word of warning tho... when the cameras are rolling, do NOT show your ass! http://bbs.gofuckyourself.com/board/wink.gif http://bbs.gofuckyourself.com/board/biggrin.gif

Well we between Jimmie and his boss and the churches they now have food, and the local hotel opened their doors to house them for a few days so they could cath their breath....... the local Wal-Mart gave each family a voucher for $100 to get anything they may need and the churches and red cross pulled together and gave them all clothes and things like that.... SOOO they are all pretty much taken care of now.

Sometimes it's good to live in a small community.... while the fire dept leaves a LOT to be desired there... the community has really pulled together to help them...... and they will be moved in to apts as they become available.... some of the residents have let a couple of them stay with them until they can get it together and maybe land a place somewhere.... so it's all coming together alot better than we thought it was going to.

This makes me happy...... nice to see some humanity when shit goes bad..... http://bbs.gofuckyourself.com/board/smile.gif

Tam

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Ahh...now that does my heart good. Great way to send me off to dinner and a show with "Mr. Korova".

Tam...I would be interested to know if there is anything I can do on my end. I realize we live a great many miles away from each other but there has got to be some way for me to help. Please let me know. I wish I could be there personally to help but, knowing that is probably not feasible (got a kid in school) can I send needed items? Money? Please let me know. I searched on the net for the incident and support groups/churches helping out and can't find anything. To tell you the truth I don't even know what city it's/you're in. My heart hurts over this kind of shit. I need to help. Let me know via the boards or e-mail. Thanks


April