Terrible Tragedy For Balt. Sun Desker

Ok, I'm sure I'll get blasted for this, but does anyone else find it odd that both parents made it out alive -- one unscathed -- but neither kid did? I mean, from posts like Moddy's, I would think you would not leave that house until you knew the kids were out and safe.

 

I honestly didn't think about it. I don't think I will, either. Instead, I will pray for the kids and family. Seems a better use of my time.

 

Lot depends on where the fire starts and where it spreads to. You can't necessarily go through a wall of intense fire to get to someone.

(Took my all to give a purely logical answer)

 

Haven't read the story, but think about it this way: Parents sleep together, separated from the children and the master bedroom is on the ground floor in a lot of houses.

 

And I think what you said goes without saying. I thought it was our job as journalists to ask questions. Guess I was wrong. Carry on.

 

Agreed. My parents' room was on the ground floor. They'd have burned to death making sure their kids didn't, that's all.

 

Who knows what the circumstances were. I'd venture that, for whatever reason, it was impossible for the parents to save them. Regardless, until we were told for certain that the parents somehow erred - we won't be, but hypothetically - I don't think anybody should express anything other than sorrow for their loss. We all have no information; since we all have no information, it'd be hugely inappropriate and irresponsible to casually imply that they may be indirectly responsible for the deaths of their children.

 

It's an awful tragedy, no doubt about it. I'm sorry to raise the questions, but I can't help it.

 

My wife told me that the poor mother in this situation was going to be wracked with guilt and going to have spend the rest of her life feeling that people were blaming her for escaping. I told her that nobody could possibly be so callous and cold-hearted to question her survival in the face of such an unthinkable tragedy.

Apparently I was wrong. I tend to underestimate how scummy some people can be. She doesn't. That's why I work in sports and she works in news, I guess.

 

I've known a couple of people who've gone to the Sun's copy desk, so my heart jumped in my throat at first. He wasn't one of them, but my condolences go out.

 

I guess you're right.

And Baltimore Guy, if I'm the one you were referring to as scummy, well, I'm sorry. The reaction here is because it was someone in the business. If a member of the general community had done this, or -- gasp! -- a professional athlete, half the board would be questioning why the adults got out and the kids didn't. We're not above reproach.