Tragic Fire Experience

On Wednesday the 13th of August 2008 at around 430 I was sitting in my apartment in Conshohocken, PA and all of a sudden our fire alarm started going off in our apartment. I thought oh great are they doing a drill. The last thing I wanted to do was leave my apartment and participate in a fire drill so I continued what I was doing in my apartment. A few minutes later I heard a very loud explosion coming from outside and so I got up and looked out our frontroom window. I was horrified and panicked by what I saw. On each side of our window I saw flames coming from a construction site behind our building that had started our building on fire. Being inside our building I wasnt sure how much time I had and how much of our building was already on fire. The first thing that crossed my mind was to grab our friend's laptop and camera that was in our apartment so they wouldnt kill me if anything happened to our place!! LOL and I also grabbed our laptop and my purse. As I was walking out of our building I felt sick inside knowing that this was probably going to be bad. Well long story made short the fire was a level 8 fire. There were 10 different cities of firemen who traveled to help and alot of them said they had never seen anything like it and were surprised at how quickly everything burned. Our building burned completely along with everything inside. Jay and I lost everything we took out with us to Pennsylvania. It has been a very humbling experience for both us. Alot of our friends who lived in our building for them that was their home. We feel very grateful and lucky to have a home in Utah to come home to but at the same time we are very saddened for our friends and the memories they lost. We are grateful that we both got out alive and we are thankful for what we do still have but it has been a very hard experience. I took some pictures from my phone of the fire when I got out of the building. They arent the greatest quality but alot of you have asked to see pictures so here they are.