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Updated: 7:55 PM Sep 7, 2010
Home Security System Warns Couple of Fire
One couple is thankful for their lives, thankful for each other and thankful for their home security system.
Posted: 7:21 PM Sep 7, 2010Reporter: Carrie Cline Email Address: carrie.cline@wsaz.com |
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MILTON, W. Va. (WSAZ) -- Saved by security -- a couple has a lot to be thankful for Tuesday after fire destroyed their home. They’re thankful for their lives, thankful for each other and thankful for their home security system.
Roy and Ruby Workman just lost their home and everything inside to an overnight fire, but theirs is a story about a love affair years in the making.
"That was my home, and I didn't want to lose my home," Ruby Workman said.
The couple was married more than 20 years ago and had always dreamed of owning their own home.
"The home meant everything to Ruby," Roy Workman said. "She loved her home; that was her home."
"First time I saw it, I knew it was the house I wanted," Ruby said.
Two years ago, they were finally able to buy their dream home. Through Roy's colon cancer and Ruby's lung disease, their home was their constant steady until smoke and flames destroyed it early Tuesday morning. The fire started while the couple was in a deep sleep. In fact, both admit they probably would have never awakened if it hadn't been for the phone.
"It was 2:30 in the morning, and we were awakened by security system that the house was on fire and we had to get up," Roy said. "The security system woke us up."
It was a lifesaving phone call. It sacrificed one love, but saved another -- one much deeper and able to conquer all.
"I'm glad we're alive," Roy said. "The house is material. It can be replaced, but we can't."
The cause of the fire is still under investigation. It was one of two fires within 24 hours in the Milton area. The owners of the other structure also were saved because of a home security system.
Latest Comments
I hope everything works out for this family...thank God they got out in time.
CALL A ALRAM COMPANY TODAY AND JUST BECAUSE THEY ARE NOT IN YOUR AREA OR STATE DOES NOT MEAN THEY CANT OR WONT PUT THE ALARM IN JUST MAKE SURE IT IS MONITORED BY A MONITORING COMPANY AND IT WONT MATTER WHERE YOU LIVE IN THE US THE AUTHORITIES WILL BE NOTIFIED, SO SECURITY AND FIRE ALARMS ARE NOT A BAD IDEA THE WORLD IS GETTING BAD
While I'm pleased to read that the families of both homes are ok and no one was injured, this is very suspicious. Two homes, both with security systems? I'm sure the Fire Marshall is asking the same questions I am... did they have the same security company? If so, is it a local call company & call center? How soon after shift change did the fires occur? Or.... are they in the same fire district? Sounds like arson to me. Either a security company employee wanting to "be a hero" or a firefighter wanting the same. Seen it too much over the last few years to think otherwise. I'd like to be wrong, but have a feeling, I'm not.
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