Airmont, NY – A Jewish home owner who spotted a fire as she headed out the door alerted her sleeping family before it could spread.
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Airmont Fire Inspector Kim Weppler told the Journal News (http://lohud.us/1QF15Vj ) it would have been a whole different story if it hadn’t been for her quick response.
He says the woman alerted her husband the Homeowner Joel Werzberger and their 1-, 3- and 6-year-old children. The children were sleeping in a bedroom above the garage.
Weppler says she was heading to the gym when she saw the fire in the garage around 4 a.m. Monday.
When firefighters arrived at the split-level home, Weppler says the fire was raging.
He says the house had a carbon monoxide detector but no smoke detectors.
The cause of the blaze is under investigation.
wow..what a NES..just wondering which mother goes to the gym 4 am..?
B”H nobody was hurt. Now can someone please go slap some shred of common sense into these idiot parents who would be so stupid as to risk the lives of their children by not having smoke detectors please!
The two male yentas 1 & 2, are NOT CONCERNED of the fact that “the house had a carbon monoxide detector but no smoke detectors” but rather what time a married woman who is not their wife goes to the gym.
In a NUT shell we have what is wrong with Yidden today.
PUT SMOKE DETECTORS AND CM DETECTORS ON EVERY FLOOR OF YOUR HOMES, WE DON’T WANT ANOTHER BROOKLYN TRAGEDY.
I would not worry about the 4 a.m. gym I’m more worried about the missing smoke detectors
Please, everyone take smoke detectors to heart! They absolutely save property and more importantly, lives!
Can someone explain how, after the horrible tragedy in Brooklyn where 7 neshamos were wiped out, can a home NOT have smoke detectors? How lucky they were that Hashem sent this lady going to the gym to wake them up. Personally I think, I think that anyone who has a fire in the house, business etc and does not have an operating smoke detector, should be fined.
Have we not learned enough from the tragedy that occured not too long ago?
PEOPLE GET SMOKE DETECTORS!! THEY SAVE LIVES!
I’m tired of seeing this attitude of “it won’t happen to me” or “hashem’s watching”
Ushmartem Meod al nafshasechem!
Protect yourself! Protect your kids! Stop the idiocy!
Whats your issue no where in the Torah says when you have to go to gym And just do half the Chesed they are doing for the community and then talk about other people Mr. yossy
Can you critics start reading full articles?
The fireman is weppler and whilst she was heading to the gym the call in the fire garage came up
A little positive
She started the car via remote control. The car was in the garage.
Query: Was the garage door opened (via remote control or otherwise) before she started the car?
Just wondering.
But, as the fire marshal said, it could have been far, far worse.
Can you critics start reading full articles?
The fireman is weppler and whilst she was heading to the gym the call in the fire garage came up
A little positive
One really has to wonder why they would not have smoke detectors. That looks like a fine home to live in. Why would a jewish family knowing that G-d is True and must be part of our lives think that a smoke detector was not a good investment. Are our communities not teaching very basic survival instincts and leaning when we are just leaving many of these things to chance?
This might be a community issue. This is more than a scare.
Very horrifying. Get your homes in order!
There were WORKING smoke detectors in the home !! It wasn’t even needed in this case for she was up and took the kids out
Shame on all you computer junkies for condemning this wonderful woman!!!! All you obese puffers and computer addicts have no idea but during this time of year very soon after 4 AM begins day light. Get up and go out doors at that time and you will see many people jogging and Jewish men already heading to shul for a shiur. Close your damn computers and get on with your life. Stop condemning a good woman with the warped ideas that emanate only from your perverted thoughts.
(And yes, I now live in Monsey — so I do know)
I was a former home owner of this property and raised my family in this house in the 80’s – 90’s, before selling in 1998. We made all the improvements, the huge deck, all the anderson windows, a new roof, the bow window in the front, the seperate barn like cedar storage house on the side of the property, the pool etc. It was a beautiful house. We were the first to paint the house white on our street. All the houses were brown. What I cannot understand is, when I lived there with my family, we had five (5) smoke alarms in the house. The Village of Airmont must be slacking as you could not tell a house and the title could not transfer without the smoke alarms and the metal entry door that self closed to the garage from the house. Who starts a car and then gets ready to go to the gym when the car is in the garage under the bedrooms and it is summer. You need to warm up the car?? I am just glad everyone got out but I am sad to see the house we had so many great memories in is gone. The trees on the left were only 3 ft high when I planted them. I am glad no one was hurt but families should always have smoke detectors!