No Injuries In Ojai Garage Fire
Photo by Scott Wintermute
By Scott Wintermute
One Ojai family is displaced from their home today due to a Tuesday night fire that destroyed their garage, damaged their home and burned countless irreplaceable family heirlooms
Becky Monahan went out to check the laundry in the dryer shortly after her two girls headed to rent a movie, only to find smoke and flames billowing out from between the wall and machine.
“She started screaming, ‘Fire,’ so I grabbed the fire extinguisher.” said Tim Grant, the girls’ father who fought the blaze to little avail before it got into the walls and attic of their home and became too much for a garden hose to handle. Luckily, firefighters from Stations 21, 22 and 23 arrived at the scene and were able to contain the damage to the attached garage.
“Once they got here, it didn’t take them long to get it 90 percent contained,” said Grant.
No one was harmed in the incident, which occured around 10 p.m. Tuesday, including beloved pets Frankie the dog and Squirt the cat, after Grant ushered them out of the house. “The firemen got the guinea pig out.” added Grant.
gentalman redneck can’t even spell his own NAME correctly, yet you take him seriously enough to respond?
you guys are both lame. get back on topic and stop acting like a couple of seventh graders fighting over a Facebook post.
nice rewrite OVN!
Gentalman Redneck: OMG..I’m bleeding from those arrows!!! You are a jerk and it’s obvious you love to write crap in here just to stir things up.
I understand there is a knitting class at the local school, in the evening. Go join it..
I must say that Mr.Redneck was right at the first with his berating of this article. He may not have a genteelness to his writings, but they are honest to the point. I found this article most offensive since I am a neighbor where this happened. Cheap journalism is what it is, something I would expect from the Globe or Star. Glitzy and cheap.This Family deserves better from the Ojai Valley News cheap and common commentaries.
Hey True Gay… I did a little ping ping on you…
Sounds a bit interesting that your email is connected with the “King Fahad Mosque”
Interesting…. I guess in your cornner i’m just an “infadell”… Slam on sucka and yes I will still post comments here as long as they oppose your views…
Jesse,
Yes If the OVN found a cure for cancer I would be suspisius of it. Do you know something I don’t know about the OVN? Maybe the “BEES” do? If the OVN had a cure for cancer I would have to wonder what else the OVN was into in society. OVN is a small town paper and to insinuate that they could pssibly posses a cure for cancer….That sounds crazy…
And for you schpell cheque,
You are talking out of both sides of your mouth. You dissagree with me, but say the article needs to have improvements…DUH.. what did I say in the first place???
And True Gay…Looks like your still stuck on that fork in the road in your life…Your beautiful, so why don’t you click your heals together and go back to L.A. or San Francisco.
Genital Redneck,
I’ll bet if OVN reported that they had found a cure for cancer, you’d be screaming about how brash and cocky they were for tooting thier own horn. Get real dude, (deleted) happens, move on…
While I totally disagree with GR, this article definitely needs some proofreading and copy editing!
Gentalmean Redneck:
I see you are still here, posting stupid comments. Why haven’t you stuck that fork into the socket yet?
Shame on you Scott for Your Gibb like humor you represented here. I hope the OVN sees to it that this will be your last article you will write for them.
“When they got home, there was already a show going on that was being watched closely by the whole neighborhood.” Just callous…