The Worst Night of My Family's Life & How A Fireproof Safe Saved It

It was the middle of the morning, couldn’t have been much past 2 AM, when I heard the loud beeping of the fire alarm. I bolted out of bed and shouted to my wife to “Get up! Get the kids!”. We stayed low to the floor outside in the hallway and opened our kids’ bedroom door, went in, quickly woke them up.
As we went back out in the hallway, we could see the fire flames coming from the kitchen down below. We shot right down the stairs and out onto the front lawn, where one of our neighbors already was waiting for us. He said he called 911 already, and we could faintly hear the sirens in the distance. Why was it taking the fire department so long?
Now, the flames started to engulf most of the first floor, including our den—which also served as my office! Everything was in there!
Suddenly, I remembered that I had bought a fireproof safe a few months ago and had put our valuables in there: our wills, the titles to our cars, our insurance policies, my grandfather’s gold watch, and my wife’s diamond earrings. I had a whole stack of documents from founding my business a few years back that were sitting in there. I also put a few silver dollars I had collected, and now I hoped they would all be safe.
The fire department arrived and went to work, virtually flooding the whole first floor, including my office. It was hours before they had finally determined that the house was safe to go back into, but now as the sun was coming over the horizon, we could see the devastation before us.
Neighbors offered breakfast and a warm place to stay, and over the next few days, our lives were like a living nightmare. We had lost SO MUCH, and why us?
The next day, though, I went into the burned-out hulk of my former office and looked in the cabinet—what was left of it—that had held my fireproof safe. Amazingly it was still there!
The outside was partially melted, but the key that I had stashed in my car still opened the lock. I was SO NERVOUS opening the safe but I cracked it open and it was all still there! Everything that formed the foundation of our lives was still in perfect condition, dry, and intact!
Now, looking back, I can safely say that spending the money to get a fireproof safe may have been one of the best investments I ever made.
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