wiped out!

Heineken Helen

Is the headline in one of the papers this morning... I sorta read the front page about the family of 7 killed in the fire and when I saw where it was I thought there's no chance of me knowing them. I was too busy yapping away about the new job anyway to read it and it was only when my sister called me and told me to look at the picture. The mother of the 5 kids is a girl from quite close to us who was in the year ahead of me at school and on my schoolbus... I knew her quite well. I knew her sister even better cos she was in my year and I hung around with her a good bit.

This is really really sad :( . They're saying suspected arson... who the fuck could DO something like that? :mad: I can't even read the article cos I know it will go into details :eek: and I'd just rather not know :(

urbanhippie

Helen... I'm really sorry to hear that.
A similar thing happened to me when a boy I knew killed himself.
It's hard....

Heineken Helen

urbanhippie wrote:

Helen... I'm really sorry to hear that.
A similar thing happened to me when a boy I knew killed himself.
It's hard....

Thank you :( it's really sad cos someone put the paper on my desk (I haven't said anything at work) and the family picture looking up at me.

I had two cousins die in a fire when I was 9 so things like this always get to me anyway cos it brings it all back but when it's someone you know :( . Well I didn't know her VERY well, in the way I know everyone where I come from, but I knew her sister really well and I just feel so sorry for them all right now.

Urban Hiker

So sorry, Helen.

It's just wrong that so much of one family can be taken out with one swoop.

Heineken Helen

Urban Hiker wrote:

So sorry, Helen.

It's just wrong that so much of one family can be taken out with one swoop.

I know. In this case it was the entire family, which in a way I'm glad (not being the right word) that there isn't one or two left to deal with the loss of their family. In my cousins case, the two of them were the only kids and their parents survived. It was just absolutely devastating. You DON'T recover!

Jennytree

yeah I've been hearin about that story all yesterday and today, its mental and so so sad :(

Pegasus

:(
don't know what to say..it stinks and I hope the culprit gets caught!

Heineken Helen

Jennytree wrote:

yeah I've been hearin about that story all yesterday and today, its mental and so so sad :(

I only heard about it this morning. I really hope it wasn't one of the parents... I can't imagine it would have been if they were shouting for help :( . If somebody else did it though they deserve the worst possible stuff to happen to them. I remember shortly before the Omagh bomb there were 3 kids killed in an arson attack on the 12th July in the north. Fucking pricks :mad:

it just doesn't bear thinking about.

Heineken Helen

Pegasus wrote:

:(
don't know what to say..it stinks and I hope the culprit gets caught!

I just hope it was an accident :(

The thought that someone could intentionally do something like that is sickening.

Irish Al

:( This story is so sad :(

Heineken Helen

Irish Al wrote:

:( This story is so sad :(

I know... her and her sister are so lovely and bubbly and I just feel so sorry for the family. Unfortunately I CAN imagine what they're going through and it's just fucking heartbreaking. I remember the eldest child too but didn't even know she had more after that.

small town beck

Terrible. Helen, I am so sorry and I really do hope(and perhaps not the right word) it was an accident. I can't imagine anyone doing such a thing :(

A hug for you, my friend.

Heineken Helen

small town beck wrote:

Terrible. Helen, I am so sorry and I really do hope(and perhaps not the right word) it was an accident. I can't imagine anyone doing such a thing :(

A hug for you, my friend.

Thank you sweetie

It just brings it back every fucking time I read about someone in a fire I mean, one day they're there living their lives... and then they're just gone. It's just incomprehensible. 18 years ago the end of this month :eek: The youngest was the same age as me and I was very close to them and I always wonder what he'd be or where he'd be or what kinda person he'd be :(

ajedigecko

give your loved ones a hug TODAY and tell them you love them.......my prayers, to the family. i can not comprehend the pain to lose a child.

Heineken Helen

ajedigecko wrote:

give your loved ones a hug TODAY and tell them you love them.......my prayers, to the family. i can not comprehend the pain to lose a child.

great advice right there thanks.

ajedigecko

Heineken Helen wrote:

great advice right there thanks.

i remember the picture of the fireman carrying out the toddler from the okc bombing.....burned into my memory.

the pain that the parent must have felt is overwhelming.

Heineken Helen

ajedigecko wrote:

i remember the picture of the fireman carrying out the toddler from the okc bombing.....burned into my memory.

the pain that the parent must have felt is overwhelming.

there are no words to describe what my aunt and uncle went through. They had another son a couple of years later (I can't imagine how it is for him either - having never met his only two brothers) but split up shortly afterwards and it got kinda messy. She went the religious road, he went the party road, I don't think EITHER of them have really worked . There is just no way your life is ever the same after something like this.

dunkman

i heard on the radio they are treating this as murder.

who would do this? :(

it was tragic enough

Heineken Helen

dunkman wrote:

i heard on the radio they are treating this as murder.

who would do this? :(

it was tragic enough

holy fuck :mad:

just looked at google news.

Who WOULD do this? :mad: stupid fucking bastards.

Heineken Helen

and i don't get this kinda fucking reporting either:

http://www.eveningtimes.co.uk/news/display.var.1832455.0.ill_never_forget_familys_screams.php

what the fuck? :mad: it's not a bag of puppies.

Irish Al

Police suspect it was the father who did it, they found petrol around the inside of the house by all accounts...how could you do that?

Heineken Helen

Irish Al wrote:

Police suspect it was the father who did it, they found petrol around the inside of the house by all accounts...how could you do that?

the headlines today are seriously pissing me off. If it was him, it's a seriously fucking evil thing to do... but they couldn't possibly KNOW yet... and all the other stuff too? :mad:

Jennytree

I did hear on the radio that the father is the suspect, that the police had been called to the house before the fire... but this is only radio talk, dunno how much I believe it.


On a slightly different note...
It really is quite odd, but there has been a few odd cases like this (a parent killing children and other halves) in Ireland recently, it really is scary and you never know what goes on behind closed doors.

Brain of J.Lo

Jennytree wrote:

On a slightly different note...
It really is quite odd, but there has been a few odd cases like this (a parent killing children and other halves) in Ireland recently, it really is scary and you never know what goes on behind closed doors.

There was a case here in the U.S. just recently about a stepfather that raped and killed his 9 yr old stepdaughter while her mother was at work. It's just unimaginable...

Brain of J.Lo

Heineken Helen wrote:

Is the headline in one of the papers this morning... I sorta read the front page about the family of 7 killed in the fire and when I saw where it was I thought there's no chance of me knowing them. I was too busy yapping away about the new job anyway to read it and it was only when my sister called me and told me to look at the picture. The mother of the 5 kids is a girl from quite close to us who was in the year ahead of me at school and on my schoolbus... I knew her quite well. I knew her sister even better cos she was in my year and I hung around with her a good bit.

This is really really sad :( . They're saying suspected arson... who the fuck could DO something like that? :mad: I can't even read the article cos I know it will go into details :eek: and I'd just rather not know :(

:( So horrible.

Heineken Helen

Jennytree wrote:

I did hear on the radio that the father is the suspect, that the police had been called to the house before the fire... but this is only radio talk, dunno how much I believe it.

Yep, I've been hearing that from the beginning... also that they were arguing in the street the day it happened.

Jennytree wrote:

On a slightly different note...
It really is quite odd, but there has been a few odd cases like this (a parent killing children and other halves) in Ireland recently, it really is scary and you never know what goes on behind closed doors.

That is absolutely terrifying anytime I read about it... what must be going on in a parents head to think killing your kids is the right thing to do? :eek: :(