Web Extra: Fireproof

BRIAN: Over the past few weeks, we’ve been asking our faithful listeners what they would save from a fire. Here are some of their answers.

FEMALE SPEAKER: Hi, my name is Katie. I’m calling from Washington DC. And I think that I would have to choose my son’s blue stuffed elephant Slimy, who isn’t slimy anymore. But my son will turn 10 next month, and I’ve been keeping track of this elephant for so long that it would just be wrong and horrible not to have him around anymore.

FEMALE SPEAKER: Hi guys, this is Christine from Philadelphia. When I was in college, I spent a semester abroad in Ireland, and lived in a boarding house. Within the first week or so, there was an intense grease fire in the kitchen, so we all had to evacuate. I didn’t worry about photos or even money, but I made sure to grab my passport. For some reason, I’m thinking that if there was a fire today, I would still go grab this passport, even though my trip was in the late ’90s, and not for anything. So just a lot of memories attached to that passport.

MALE SPEAKER: Hi, my name’s Matt from to Skokie, Illinois. I’m going to try not to get choked up over this a little bit. But my dad died when I was really young, but he’d done a lot of wood carvings. And when he died, he had created a beautiful wood carving of Santa Claus, and has just finished painting it. And it was a commission for somebody. And for years, nobody had come forward to claim it. And then somebody finally got in touch with us, they were able to find us. And they asked about it, and we explained what had happened. And they, through the goodness of their hearts, let us keep the statue, and not worry about repaying them either.

ED: Thanks to Katie, Christine, and Matt for sharing the stories with us.