Buying a fire damaged home that's unique in that actually it caught fire through a lightning strike

An 84-year-old woman watching TV in her wheelchair was killed on Thursday night when fire sparked by lightning tore through her suburban Lantana home.

Firefighters found Ethel Barkley's charred body slumped over a card table.


"From the way she was sitting, it doesn't seems like she tried to move or do anything," said Steve Delai, Palm Beach County Fire-Rescue spokesman.

Ann Sellards, who cared for Barkley, said she left Barkley watching TV in her living room to visit a friend who lives nearby.


On returning shortly after 6:30 p.m., she saw the roof of Barkley's house "covered with smoke."

"I went in and tried to find her, but there was too much smoke, so I had to grab my dog and run back out," Sellards said.

Sellards said she ran across the street and asked neighbors to call 911.

When firefighters arrived, the house was engulfed in flames.


Several neighbors said they heard two loud thunderbolts but did not realize lightning had hit the house in the 7800 block of High Ridge Road.

"It was like a bomb exploded," said Eneida Quiles, who lives across the street from Barkley. "The lights [in my house) went out but it came back on."

Quiles said that minutes later, when she looked outside, she saw an inferno.

It took firefighters from Palm Beach County Fire-Rescue and Lantana and Boynton Beach fire departments more than two hours to bring the blaze under control.


Unlike newer homes, which have plasterboard ceilings to allow the fire to burn through, the older home had wood beam ceilings that did not allow the fire to vent.

The house was a wood-frame structure with wood siding.

"The fire got real hot, and when it couldn't get through the ceiling, it went horizontal and blew out the windows," Delai said. "The whole house - all the way down to the floor - is burned."

Jane Forrester, Barkley's close friend for 32 years, recalls Barkley as a well-known and respected resident in the community.

"She was a very kind, gentle person - just a real lady," Forrester said. "We used to go to this little Baptist church here on High Ridge [Road) together."

Barkley and her husband both retired from the massage business, she said. Her husband died several years ago, Forrester said, and Sellards began caring for Barkley about four years ago.

Suzette DeGrugillier, 16, recalls seeing Barkley in her front yard when she waited for the school bus in the mornings.

She said a year ago Barkley was walking with a cane but recently suffered a stroke and has had to use a wheelchair.

Forrester said it was "quite a shock to hear" about her friend's death.

"It's very terrible," she said. "But God loves her."

Haunted house, inhabited by deceased old lady spirit; perhaps struck by lightning for good reasons.

you may not have noticed but even most catholics are poor as shit

only he church itself is filthy rich

it sucks its member dry and keeps them poor

Thats interesting because I'm English/Italian and own a 45000sq ft pink wedding store for my wife and you wouldn't ever meet me either. Rofl nobody gives a fook about you nor taking care of you. If you dont care about economic freedom, you care about nothing.

Do you have details of USBank crookery? This would not surprise me.

It's no different than Trumpers calling his death "karma." You guys are even. Two peas in the same pod if this is your mentality.

Kobe was a scumbag rapist! Fuck him!

You realize that lightning often "hits" the same general spot repeatedly?
So this home is a lightning magnet.

You better have a lot of good lightning rods installed, unless you want a repeat of what happened here.

I don't like seeing pink on men. Makes them look gay. Being a man I wouldn't wear pink either. Women however look super hot and feminine in pink. I'm guessing you must be a white boy that can't stand seeing white girls with black men. So you say you hate pink to make yourself feel better because you know how much white girls that were pink love black men. I'm a white boy too but I actually find it very hot and sexually arousing seeing hot white girls especially hot blonde white girls all dressed in bright pink with black men.

With all due respect, Ms. Anonymous Girl, it's more nuanced, I think.

Trump supporters wish death by hanging upon (1) corrupt, traitorous, soft-coup-participant politicians deemed to be violators of their sworn oaths to protect and defend the U.S. Constitution; as well as upon (2) vile TDS-suffering celebrities who publicly and seditiously promote violence against the President and his family, such as Madonna and Kathy Griffin.

For other celebrities who are outspoken Trump-haters but don't go so far in their rhetoric, Trump supporters merely dismiss them as misguided fools who've jumped on the bash Trump bandwagon and are worthy of boycotting, but not death. Kobe Bryant was in this group. Seeing karmic demise in his untimely death after the fact, though perhaps distasteful, is not the same as wishing death upon the man.

Wishing death is the same as wishing death.

The wishing of death upon Trump, a living person, by Trump-haters is pre-meditation.

Cool!

Nice you did. But woman are the last people to understand the law of averages.

Somebody needs to take the vodka soaked tampon out of their ass.

Bernie is counting on your vote

Imagine if I would have bought back in 2012!!

1. That same house has appreciated over 100K++++
2. 30 year mortgage would be locked in to $870/monthly payment with no chance of increasing!!!


I am an idiot!!!!!!!!!!!

That's because Asian women are built sideways

Some of the pink those girls are wearing especially Elin Nordegren and the dominatrix with the pink whip and glasses are literally bright enough to blind you.

Black men seem to be attracted to really bright colors. Liberal white women also seem to love really bright colors, especially pink. That's probably why white women that are with black men wear bright pink a lot.

Here's a hot white girl all dressed in beautiful bright pink getting fucked by big black dick.

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Damn she makes for such great eyecandy in all that beautiful bright pink and such a beautiful lovely sexy sight seeing a hot white girl all dressed in bright pink getting fucked by big black cock.
Of course everyone knows that white girls that wear all pink love black men.

Of course the daily beast would blame this on the Fed.. meaning its Trumps fault!!!

But clean water is actually a function of the state.

For your reading pleasure, the South Carolina Legislation


South Carolina Code of Laws
Unannotated
Title 44 - Health

CHAPTER 55

Water, Sewage, Waste Disposal

ARTICLE 1

State Safe Drinking Water Act
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There's a reason why pink rhymes with stink.
Because pink fucking stinks.
That's why n*ggerloving white whores love wearing pink so much. Because n*ggers stink and so does pink and of course the white whores that fuck n*ggers stink too.
That's why n*ggerloving whores love wearing all pink so much.
Because n*ggers, n*ggerloving whores and pink all fucking stink.

New Orleans, LA. Vampires everywhere...the whole place seems to be an open air market for vampires to feast on humans.

Garth, would you like to see the exploding house trick?

Lightning is easy..

ANY blonde woman that wears pink is a coal burning slut. FACT

Colorado City, Arizona. Very strange Mormon town in northwest AZ.

Willow Creek, CA is a freaky place. Lots of pot farms, trimmigrants, peekers, tweakers. Nearby indian reservation harbors armed gangs that rob pot farms at gunpoint and make the workers strip naked and load out the trimmed and packaged product.

Suggest everyone go back and read NSSM 200 from 1974 (Kissinger Report).

Identified 7 countries and their population growth as national security threats. It also details how withholding aid should be used as a weapon to get countries to adopt policies they wanted.

Virus is just next step, sure there is a classified report on it somewhere.

NSSM 200 link
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Lightning always strikes twice.

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