An Urgent Wakeup Call

From: Dave Douglas (douglasd@indy.net)
Story type: Angel
Location: Indianapolis, Indiana
Source: Form Submission
More that 20 years ago (about 1975) in Indianapolis, Indiana where my wife and our two young daughters were living at the time, an angel woke me out of a sound sleep one cold and rainy winter's night as if to save all of our lives. We had a nice finished-off basement with a Franklin stove. Everyone had settled down early in the evening watching television while enjoying the fire. The wood had been a little damp but with a good blaze going, that thing could devour anything seemingly that you could put in it. Wrong! About 3:30 in the morning, the wind had changed and the fire had burned quite low. The updraft got very weak and the stove filled up the basement where we were sleeping with very sickening white smoke and carbon monoxide. I don't know how long this process took but all of a sudden a powerful man's voice came to me while I was still asleep saying, "GET UP AND OPEN THE WINDOWS!" At first I didn't wake right up but the second time I heard it, it was much louder this time and so I sprang right up and did what I was told. I will never forget the choking odor and will never forget the sight of that room when I first turned on the lights! The room was paneled with dark walnut but when the lights came on you could not see the top 2/3's of the walls for the white smoke! I had trouble waking up my wife and kids. It was if they either were sleeping very,very soundly or they had become partially overcome by the smoke at that point. It seemed that it took about 2 to 3 hours with all four windows and the doors open for that room to clear! I have never ceased to be grateful for that divine messenger that saved all of our lives that night. I hope he(they) are still watching over all of us.
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