Small fire brings big appreciation for responders

I have a friend who had a close call with a house fire one morning last week.
It turned out, thank goodness, not to be anything very serious. But it had the potential to have been so much worse. Say this friend had already left for work, she most likely would’ve returned to find her house had burned to the ground.
Fortunately, however, she was home at the time, heard a window crack, discovered the…