We're back --- and what a story we have to tell...................

As I posted last week we left for the Gettysburg, Pa. Bluegrass Festival last Wed. When we got there they had one of the venders parked in a smaller motorhome than ours, right behind us. He was not even 10 ' behind us and just parked there, not even in a designated site. Well, I didn't like that to begin with, but there was nothing I could do about it. We proceeded to set up.
My granddaughter and I built a fire and roasted hotdogs before we went to bed. At 2 AM while sleeping, we heard knocking on our door then pounding on our bedroom window with someone yelling " your on fire"!!!!!!!! When I looked out the bedroom window it was the guy's motorhome parked behind us that was on fire, flames shooting out of the roof and the whole side next to us flaming!!!!!!!!!!!! My DH went outside to take some blocking down while I put the jacks up and put the gas pedal to the floor to get out of there. I thought we were going to blow up!!!!!!!!! In the mean time, we were still hooked up to the electric, water and cable. I pulled it all loose. The slide was still out and the awning was down, which I forgot about and on the way out of the site I heard a crash. They have a guard gate there with a gate that comes down (like at a railroad track crossing). The gate was up and I ran into it with the awning. There was smoke coming inside our motorhome and my DH said there was smoke coming off the back of ours. We were next to igniting, but didn't. You can see some of the damage to our motorhome in the pics and also a pic of the other mans RV. His RV burned to the ground. He lost everything except the shorts he had on. I thank GOD that we are alive. If that man would not of woke up with the smell of smoke and came and woke us, we would not be here today. I was not able to take Lucy with us on this trip and I feel if she would of been there she would of alerted us before it got that bad. I wear CPAP at night and hear or smell nothing while sleeping. The campground put us up in a cabin that night and then, after talking to the ins. co., we stayed and came home today. They are not able to assess the damage until Wed. Thankfully there is not one bit of damage to the inside or anything electrical. It was determined that the man's frig. started the fire. His smoke detectors were not working. There is much more to this story, but I think you have heard enough to get the picture.
The first pic shows up the side from the back with our bedroom awning melted off
The second pic is of the tail lights
Third pic is of the back and
the last pic is right after we set up when we got there showing how close the other RV was from us.
REAL SCARY !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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Comment by 2SCdoodles on August 27, 2009 at 4:04pm: Oh, my! We are all so glad that you and your family are okay! What a scary, scary thing to go through!

Comment by LuvMyAbby&Kaela on August 27, 2009 at 8:47am: If they try to not write it off you tell them you are concerned abou toxicity! Plastics that have burned leave dangerous chemicals forever. There was a house here in town that the people came home to it up in smoke (not flames) apparently they had left a George Foreman grill in the oven, with the oven on, and left to go shopping.....How I dont know. Anyways......they actually sealed off the house and the whole kit and kaboodle got bulldozed to the ground. Can you imagine! They built a new house ground up...and there was just smoke....lots of it, but the house didnt go up in flames. apparently it was so toxic it was uninhabitable.

Comment by Karen & Lucy on August 24, 2009 at 7:16pm: The ins. adjuster came today and it looks as if they may total our RV. He said it is very very close and he has to present it to some higher ups for a decision to be made. He said that if they do fix it, we will not get it back until next spring. Can you just believe that !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Comment by Nina, Phil, Harlow & Lacey on August 24, 2009 at 5:24pm: Oh my goodness. That had to be scary. I am so glad everyone is OK. This will be a memorable story your granddaughter will tell her children one day.

Comment by Adrianne Matzkin on August 24, 2009 at 2:22pm: OMG!! I am so thankful you all are okay!!

Comment by Tante & Jordan & now Annie! on August 24, 2009 at 1:20pm: Wow! Thank goodness everyone is OK. Can your RV be fixed?

Comment by Michele Barton on August 24, 2009 at 12:27pm: Holy moly, that must have been terrifying. I am so glad you are all okay. Happy birthday to your brave granddaughter!