![]() The four pets of the family including two dogs, a cat and a lizard also all got out with the help of of the firefighters. He quickly got himself and his wife, daughter and granddaughter out of the home safely. “All I saw was flames that I thought I may have been able to put out but the things that were on fire became toxic smoke immediately,” Clarence remembered. At first, he used a fire extinguisher to attempt to put out the fire growing in the basement but soon realized it was getting too big too quickly for the small hand-held extinguisher alone to smother. Clarence says it was the smoke that he remembers most thick, dark that he couldn’t see through and toxic, especially after he got a few whiffs of it.Ĭlarence had heard a small explosion in the basement followed by the high-pitched tone of two smoke alarms going off. ![]() On the afternoon of May 22, 2022, Clarence Weber and his family stood outside the Rochelle, Illinois home he has lived in for 41 years and watched as local firefighters arrived and starting putting out a fire raging from the basement.
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