Local House Fire Restoration

Dear reader... Our dad Owen a 77 year old 11th Infantry Vietnam Veteran (dad) who survived a landmine explosion in 1968 (as a medic) during the Vietnam war and was left with a paralyzed lower leg and who spent a whole year at Walter Reed hospital recovering from his War injury, was rescued by his 44 year old daughter who broke an upper-level window with her bare hands after discovering that the house was on fire and waking up her parents in their upper level bedroom, during a devastating house fire on October 29, 2020. His daughter miraculously pulled him through the upper level window just as a cloud of flames rushed to that window and on to a lower level roof. In turn the 77 year old 11th Infantry veteran fearlessly jumped off of the lower level roof and then immediately ran around to a lower level window and broke it with his hands to rescue his 68 year old wife "a God fearing and devoted wife and mother who has worked to support her family all of her adult life up to the date of the fire" who took the stairs to the lower level of the house. Their home of 46 years was completely destroyed by flames but all three of the family members who were inside miraculously made it out in a nick of time. All three were hospitalized for more than 30 days in the ICU of a Washington DC Hospital Burn Center with second and third degree burns to their faces and upper extremities. Our mom was given 2% chance of surviving while our dad was given 10% and our sister was given 50% chance. Our mom graduated from the Washington Hospital Burn Unit ICU after being there for 50 days and is currently finishing her recovery at a burn rehab center where she is being slowly weaned from a ventilator and learning to walk and talk again. Our dad graduated from the ICU after 40 days and is recovering with family and home nursing. The family including their son who was at work during the time of the fire has lost everything in their home of 46 years and the insurance will only cover for some of the structure but none of the items. We the sons and daughters have started this GoFundMe to help with the rebuild and replacement of the many items that were destroyed and to ease the burden that our parents would face without support. Thank you The Harrod Family