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Stan Lake's avatar

Glad you guys are okay! Man, been there. Caught my kitchen on fire two days before Christmas 2019.

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Fred "Doom" Dummar's avatar

Sorry to hear this, Michael. My childhood home burned to the ground. I remember staring at a pile of melted plastic, formerly my cherished GI Joes, in a spot in what had been the living room.

Back in the days of photo albums, that fire took a lot of memories.

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Michael Venutolo-Mantovani's avatar

Man, I'm sorry to hear that. Must've been pretty brutal for a little kid. Thanks for the note. Thankfully, we got quite lucky.

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Fred "Doom" Dummar's avatar

It was unpleasant...

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Michael Venutolo-Mantovani's avatar

funny you say that because the first things I thought about when we pulled up to four fire trucks and an ambulance at our house (we were not home, thankfully) were a few of my guitars and all of my kids' toys.

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Cory Checketts's avatar

I'm sorry to hear that. How awful but thankfully you and the family are well. I officially no excuses to not publish consistently. Mad props.

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Michael Venutolo-Mantovani's avatar

hahaha man, in times like this, normalcy is key to sanity!!!!

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Cory Checketts's avatar

Amen to that!

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John Dailey's avatar

Wow, sorry to hear that brother, but glad no one was hurt.

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Michael Venutolo-Mantovani's avatar

thanks, man. all props to Chapel Hill FD, who were absolute pros in their work. they truly saved everything. Chief said it was one the verge of getting "a whole lot worse" when they arrived.

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