I've gone on previous about a house fire that happened to me a couple of years back, right here in Durham Co. North Carolina. Well wouldn't you know it, on the heels of Hurricane Isaias, we lost a member of the Durham Fire Dept. by the name of Andrew Brokes. He died in a fire last week.
This fire was attended to by the Durham Fire Dept, and I feel this tragic death is a striking example of Heroism. Andrew Brokes is dead, and this is a sad day for all of us. Andrew put others before himself, the Golden rule. Standing tall courageously cost him his life. I hope people know, all gave some...
But unlike most,
Some gave all...
Andrew Brokes gave his life for others.
He was and is a hero. This exemplar of bravery and excellence in the Durham Fire Department, gave his life.
It almost feels as if he gave his life for me personally.
Why?
Well I'm someone who barely escaped being maimed in a house fire, and I can testify that saving innocent civilians merely going about the status quo day in and day out is heroism that few know. Life was given, so that others may live...
It reminds us of our Christian duty and service.
Christ dies for us much in the same way Andrew Brokes died for those who suffer from incendiary death by the same fire that emblazoned the house that Brokes ultimately died in, and sacrificed himself by way of duty unto death. He served.
Christ served mankind. Why serve?
Why?
Simply because service is the golden rule of Christendom.
So I grieve today, because his death hits all too close to home. If it weren't for heroes like Brokes, I could've died in immolation... However, because some give all they have in the service of the Status Quo, I was able to live on to see another day.
So show a little appreciation for those heroes who served honorably, and recognize the grim mortality that the fire of tradition truly rends. I give faith an important role to play in Christianity at times like this.
But this is almost more important than faith based issues.
This soldier of the Cross - is dead.
He is dead from living the service of the order.
He kept the faith...
He fought the good fight!
Let's all say a prayer to a man who has seen the darkness. Immolation is a scary fact. It's almost like experiencing the full darkness of Satan's fiery underworld and living to fight another day.
I know that Brokes is alive in heaven for eternity.
As someone who had a near death experience from a house fire,
I just remember the stench of burning plastic, and smoke's acrid scent in the brass tax finality of burnt matter that was never intended for inhalation.
This putrid smell of Being-toward-Death? It's abominable...
Let's say a prayer for a man who succumbed to the reality of death's design.
Satan's fires, embers and all the tragedies of darkness overtaking the spark of life & light inherent in all being.
So if it's any comfort to anybody out there who actually knew Andrew Brokes, and as somebody who went through a fire and lived to see another day,
I can tell you it wasn't painful for him to cross that firmament from life unto death. He didn't experience any gruesome physical pain whatsoever. You see, I learned when I was in a house fire myself, the sad truth of the mantra we're all taught at a young age, which is that the number one thing which kills people is not the fire but the smoke, right?
Well that's kind of true...
But not entirely factual.
You see,
It's actually physically factical that your worldly vessel is oft' times so damaged by the temperature of flames & heat that the trauma to one's fleshy substance really does kill a human being...
It really is the fire that kills somebody rather than the smoke as is often espoused. That's merely fodder for basic teachings of safety. The fact is it's not really the smoke that kills you rather it's the fire...
Contrary to the sayings...
However, a priori it's true in a sense.
You see what I experienced in the fire was the shock involved in the entire experience of being exposed to immolation. What I saw in that fire is something that's kind of hard to really get across. Which is the shock aspect. So, what I'm getting at is that you very quickly lose consciousness when you inhale smoke, in close quarters. So what happened to me was, there was a fire inside my house. I immediately sprang into action and tried to put the fire out myself. However in attempting to put out the fire with water, I discovered the truth about smoke causing death. Which is if you inhale this s***, you basically immediately lose consciousness. And it's not a slow process, at all.
You know what Christ says about death coming like a thief in the night or whatever?
Well it really is that unexpected.
It's like damn it
You see the smoke. Then you inhale the smoke.
Then good night.
And you immediately lose all consciousness.
You just go from like being alive, seeing hearing touching tasting and God forsakes smelling, and then darkness. No light. No objects of consciousness. No sense of perception whatsoever.
Just complete lack of consciousness.
And luckily, after that happened to me,
I regained consciousness, to be able to come to this conclusion.
Which is Andrew Brokes went into the house fire simply to make sure that there was no man, woman, or child left behind in the house...
Pardon me allow me to correct that.
Andrew went into the house to make sure there was no man, woman, child, or pet cat, or pet dog left behind. After he went into the burning house to make sure there was no entity inside the structure the roof collapsed. From what I gather, Andrew Brokes was in the area of the house that the roof collapsed in on.
But what I experienced is almost assuredly what he experienced in this structure fire, which is you go from consciousness & being unto nothingness.
Therefore the truth is death comes quickly.
And I'm here to testify, as bad and as gruesome as burns can get,
He was at peace and felt no pain in the last moments of his life on Earth.
People like Andrew Brokes summoned all the courage and tenacity to save innocent people's confrontation with death's sadistic design. Let us pray for the dead!
2026
DDUnited
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