![]() We're real late to the game, but it is going to happen." I went to Target and got ornaments and all of that stuff at lunch, and so we started Christmas. ![]() "We got the tree put up, we hung stockings. " Sights and Sounds let me borrow one of their really nice trees so I didn't have to mess with getting a real one or string lights, which was amazing," Walsh said. Walsh's Christmas decorations were in the garage when the fire happened, so Christmas quite literally went up in flames. Christmas is on high, it didn't click with me and I don't know if it clicked with my kids or not, you know that that's what we're also doing," Walsh said. "Even there with the lights, I mean, it's a million lights. I went to Walmart and saw a sign that said eight days till Christmas and I walked through Walmart with tears rolling down my face buying laundry baskets for the first time since I was a teenager. I couldn't even focus on Christmas at all,” she said.Įven at the San Marcos Christmas event Sights and Sounds, Walsh didn't feel the holiday spirit. Walsh said while it may not feel like Christmas right now, she’s determined to make the holiday happen for her two daughters. ![]() Ollie and Jerry when Ollie was a kitten. (Courtesy: Amber Walsh) So they died of smoke inhalation, they found them in other parts of the house.” And then Ollie was our little orange cat and she was three. The heartbreaking part is that cat always yelled at me and she was cold. “One of them was Jerry, our big male cat. Unfortunately, both of them died that night. She had turned it on to keep her two cats warm in the garage. The San Marcos fire marshal told Walsh the space heater in the garage likely caused the fire. Which was pretty crazy and amazing because I had on shorts and a T-shirt and socks," Walsh said. And so while they were like, containing and finishing up the fire, somebody, one of the firefighters went in and grabbed my boots, so that I would have a pair of shoes. "It was the only pair of shoes I had out visible. Walsh said amazingly, one of the firefighters grabbed a pair of shoes for her, as she was outside barefoot watching the flames. They do feel like because it's solid wood, they can pull it down to the wood and re-varnish, and we can keep that," Walsh said. "I had gotten a set from my grandfather, it was my bedroom set, and then my oldest daughter's, hers was my grandmother's antique. Walsh was able to grab some sentimental items, and is hoping a couple important pieces of antique furniture are able to be restored. Walsh was preparing dinner, including chopping up Brussels sprouts, when her garage caught fire. (Courtesy: Amber Walsh) So that's what the whole house is covered in,” Walsh said. "They even said like my dishes and pots and pans, because it expands, because it gets so hot and then it contracts whenever it cools down and it just keeps all that in there. I had my carbon monoxide level super high, and then I had cyanide poisoning from just melted plastic, breathing that in. While the fire was mainly contained to the garage and attic, the fire department had to drill holes in every room of the house to let the smoke and heat out. "I thought I extinguished the fire, and I literally thought, 'Okay, well I'll open windows now and air it out and continue with dinner.' But the smoke was down past my knees when I went in to get the fire out. "I opened the door and when opened it, the whole back wall of my garage was on fire," Walsh said. Amber Walsh sitting outside her home on the night of the fire, talking to a firefighter and surrounded by family and neighbors.
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