Old age doesn’t creep up. It rages over you like the flames which
engulfed an old people’s home (Residence du Havre) in small town Canada (L’Isle-Verte,
Quebec) on Wednesday night, leaving up to 31 dead.
Even Frankie Boyle couldn’t make
it up: residents reliant on walking frames, washed-out shuffling things, overtaken
by quickfire. See how they cannot run! Now they have run out of time.
Chief firefighter Yvon Charron described it as ‘a night from
hell’. Away from the flames, the temperature dropped to 20 degrees below freezing. Pumped
onto the fire to put it out, gallons of water turned to icy, witchy fingers.
Hell froze over. The world stood still. In our flaming youth
we often saw it that way. We could afford to, with all that time hanging over
us.
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