Thank You KPFD

I would like to thank the Key Peninsula Fire Department and Peninsula Light Co. crews for responding quickly to my calls Nov. 11 during a storm with wind gusts reportedly up to 50 MPH.

Just after midnight, we heard the awful cracking, crashing, thumping sounds of a tree falling somewhere nearby and immediately lost all power. I had just notified Pen Light via cell phone when my husband stepped out on the porch in the dark and said, “There’s a fire!”

There were flames on the street, apparently from a downed wire.

After difficulty with my cell phone reception, I was finally able to get through to 911, all while we were trying to function in the pitch blackness, find our flashlights and candles, and stay calm in a howling windstorm.

The fire department was soon on the scene — we could see the engine and their lights from our house down the hill from the street. There were lights in the darkness for hours. After a time we could tell the Pen Light crew had arrived and were at work. This went on all night.

By morning we had power. It was kind of miraculous to have had all of that going on in the dark while we slept and the wind howled and to wake up in the morning with the heat working again and able to make our coffee as usual.

I am so relieved that no one was hurt and that the brave men and women of both our own fire department and Pen Light were there when we needed them. Many thanks to you all.

Edie Morgan, Longbranch