One evening in May 2010, then-20-year-old musician Chris Sheeran went to band practice before seeing the newly released remake. nightmare on elm street at the theater. He then slept with his father, his father’s girlfriend, and his brother, who was 10 at the time, in an apartment in Allentown, Pennsylvania.
Around 3:00 a.m., he was awakened by a notification from his Palm Pre, one of the earliest smartphones popular at the time. He set up to receive texts when his friends tweeted and played the song’s riff. “Big wiggly style” Devil wears Prada metal band.
“The color in the room was this hellish amber with this smokiness,” he recalled. “I was in the heavy metal world and thought it was my imagination.” He had a lucid dream and thought he was still asleep. Another notification was then sent to his phone. “That’s when I woke up,” he said.
He inhaled the smoke and realized that the building was on fire. He remembered what he had learned in school and threw himself on his floor to clear the air. He crawled to his bedroom door and opened it to see thick black smoke billowing out.
“A little panic started creeping in,” he said, adding that the first thing that came to mind was that he needed to get two other people in the apartment at the time — his brother and his father’s girlfriend — out to safety. rice field. .
Sheeran ran to the door in his boxers and banged on it furiously, but they wouldn’t get up. Short of breath, he ran out of his apartment and on the street he saw two men calling his 911. After catching his breath, he crawled back into the building and managed to get his brother and his father’s girlfriend out.
His thoughts then turned to other people in the building. “I ran back upstairs to warn my neighbor and was greeted by this gentleman who was very angry that I had woken him up,” recalls Sheeran. What happened? I remember screaming in his face, and then everything changed between us.”
He then tried to wake his family up on the top floor.he didn’t succeed, but they survived the firefighters coercion way to their apartment.
