Bride in wedding dress saves family from burning home

Just after getting married, Georgette Clemons saw smoking coming from a home, then ran to rescue the residents. "It's been an eventful day," she says. "My shoes got messed up, but what are you going to do? At least the people are OK." (Connecticut Post)

Comments

[lynn]

what a great story!! how cool and brave she is and will always have a good memory to add to the wedding story...thanks for starting our Mondays with her, Jim!

[Sheila]

What Lynn said.

[LimeGreenLizard]

This is the only time I've ever heard of where a bride got two uses out of her wedding gown on the same day. Or any day. Cool.

[Drake Timbershaft]

LGL, my wife wore my sister's wedding dress with some alteration - so that's another case of a dress being used twice, though admittedly not by the same bride. I was all for it - it was an $1100 dress.

What, no story about the groom in his tux across town rescuing a baby that had fallen down a well?

[Torgo]

The fire was started by Bridezilla.

[Phranqlin]

This gives "Here comes the bride" a whole new meaning!

[mianne]

Wonderful story if true, but I'm afraid my BS meter is tripping a bit on this one.

The family could not make their own way out of the house, yet the bride (in a moving vehicle no less) spotted someone inside the house full of smoke?

That not only did she lead the entire family and pets to safety, but did so presumably in layers upon layers of satin and tulle?

Everyone made it out without injury, despite neighbors having to run back into their own homes due to the thick smoke outside! Yet the only casualty were the bride's shoes?

Despite this apparently neighborhood-consuming thick smoke, our veiled superheroine must now dash off to warn the, apparently oblivious, neighbors of the fire?

Again, I'm all for reporting uplifting acts of courage, but this one seems to have been embellished beyond recognition.

[Navy Chief]

@Mianne - The way I read it, she spotted the people inside AFTER she got out of the car. And the story didn't say that all the neighbors had to retreat because of the smoke. If the smoke was blowing one way down the street and away from the door, it's plausible.

I admit, the reporting leaves a lot to be desired as to the sequence of events, but I don't think it's that far-fetched.

[Reno the pregnant goddess]

Where was the groom?

[Zoot]

I want to know where the groom was.

[LimeGreenLizard]

Reno, That's the obvious question.

[thomas]

I once rescued a woman my in very skimpy thread bare underwear. She had flipped her car in the wee A.M. hours across from my home, and was suspended by her seat belt with her head half under water from the brook that now flowed through her SUV. Alcohol was involved.

Never figured out what she was doing in my skivvies.

[lynn]

its SuperBride and her sidekick, GroomBoy to the rescue!

(and the crowds say:"YEA!!"

[nellagain]

When I saw this story the first thing I thought was "They'll hit on the shoes."
Yup.

Most people don't rough out a draft of a press statement *before* responding to an emergency. And afterwards there's not much time before the ink-stained motly appear.

And, personally, I prefer it that way.

[thomas]

correction.
I once rescued a woman in my very skimpy thread bare underwear.

Does dyslexia gropress?

[Navy Chief]

@thomas - That's just an extension of words that have all the letters in the middle messed up. As long as the first and last letters are correct, the minds groks it.