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A fire last week may have consumed a Florida man’s Corvette and badly damaged his home, but it wasn’t able to consume his spirit.
72-year-old John Jackson told Local 10 TV reporter Joseph Ojo that he was just glad no one was injured in the June 3 fire.
“Nobody got hurt, thank God,” he said, surveying the badly burned home and the dark red C4 Corvette coupe that once “ran like a Rolls-Royce,” as he put it.
“That’s the main thing – nobody got hurt,” he stressed.
The fire broke out around 1 p.m. on the 400 block of Northwest 39th Avenue in Lauderhill after Jackson reached into his prized Corvette to crank it up and then heard a strange noise.
“I reached down just like this, turned the key, and I heard a pop and I said ‘uh, uhh. ‘I grab the cover, which was half-covered and I threw it over, [but] that didn’t extinguish the fire, it just consumed the cover,” Jackson said.
The fire quickly spread to his carport and then the rest of the home, displacing Jackson and three others.
Now, Jackson is staying temporarily with his son and has also received help from the Red Cross, but he faces an uphill battle since he didn’t have insurance and has been told by one person who came by the house that he was looking at about $160,000 worth of repairs.
Jackson has started a GoFundMe to help him recover from the fire.
You can see the entire Channel 10 news report here.
Source:
https://www.local10.com/news/local/2022/06/09/man-grateful-to-be-alive-after-lauderhill-fire/
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Amazes me how many people don’t want to spend $20 for a fire extinguisher for their car. When I was trucking (over 40 years) I put out several car fires. No one ever offered to pay for me to get the fire extinguisher re-charged, so one day I asked. The guy made me feel like I was asking for a hand out when he handed me some money. I told him to keep it and walked back to my rig. I never stopped for a car fire again.
Ronnie, considering their car had just caught on fire, probably the last thing they were thinking about was the cost of your fire extinguisher.
I put out a major fire in my neighbor’s kitchen which was moments away from being a lost cause and I never even considered asking them to pay for my fire extinguisher, or even medical bills for the minor burns I got on my hands and face from hot oil splashing back. They paid me back later with thank yous and some small gifts, and I’m sure some of the people you helped would have been happy to pay you back if they knew how to contact you.
If you expect to be paid for your assistance, maybe you were doing it for the wrong reasons.
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