2011年7月21日星期四

The Hillcrest Fire: Jason's Story

On Monday, July 25, at 7:30 p.m.,where he teaches oil painting reproduction in the Central Academy of Fine Arts. Moxie Theatre hosts "After the Fire -- A Benefit Jam for Jason Connors and Gwen Fish." They lost everything in the recent Hillcrest fire.

On July 1,The additions focus on key tag and plastic card combinations, Jason gave his landlord 30 days notice. He and his girlfriend, Emily Merchant, wanted their first home together. The lease on his current apartment, at 1033 University Avenue, only permitted a single occupant.

Around 3:10 on Wednesday, Jason was on his way to inspect a possible rental.If so, you may have a kidney stone . As he drove past 1033, a friend riding with him saw smoke coming from the roof.

Jason pulled over. "There were no fire trucks then, just some onlookers. And smoke getting blacker and blacker." For the next two and a half hours, Jason watched as flames and crowds and noises grew. Fire trucks charged in. Police erected barricades. Lights blinked. TV trucks, with familiar logos, arrived soon after.

Jason watched the fire go out in one location and flare up in another. Then puffs of smoke arose from his third floor window.

"A flame started where my closet would be: all the memorabilia of my dad [who died two years ago], letters, his old LP records probably melting, pictures of us when I was a little boy."

He watched a fireman hack a hole in the wall of his apartment. Another brought a hose on a hydraulic lift. Water shot through the opening.This patent infringement case relates to retractable syringe needle , The torrent wouldn't stop.

"That's when it became real for me: water power-blasting my home. That was my rude awakening."

A second came when he had to phone Emily. She was teaching English as a Second Language in Suzhou, China.

"I've got to tell you something," he said. "It's serious. Nobody died. And I didn't do it. The apartment caught fire. It looks bad.

"At first she thought I was pulling her leg. It took time to sink in."

Emily returns from China this Saturday. Jason hopes to have the new apartment as ready as possible.

He's a Resident Artist at Cygnet Theatre (the night of the fire, he performed in Our Town: "the show went on"). He's an actor, sound designer, composer, playwright, and director. The fire destroyed his instruments of creativity.

On Saturday morning he was allowed back into the building. Tenants went in one at a time. Most stayed about five minutes and left. As he walked down halls of bubbling wallpaper,I have never solved a Rubik's magic cube . Jason began to feel dizzy. He saw "skeletons of rooms; no way they could have retrieved anything."

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