The Landrus House Fire
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At 4 pm, Sunday August 21, an ominous forest fire blazed through the hills of Mount Baldy in Spokane, Washington. Karl and Karen scooped up their dog Linus and their grandson as they were rushed down the hill for a Level 3 evacuation. They did not have time to bring anything with them. Within two short hours the Landrus home, built by Karl and his late father Earl, was burned to the ground. We are so thankful that they are safe.
Many lives have been touched by the hospitality and love that has flowed from this home through the years. As a family they faced the unpredictable and tragic loss of their wife and mother Gretchen in this very house, just a short time after it was built. Karen joined the family a few years later to care for and nurture the Landrus children as her own. The family wrestled and worked through the loss and over the years that home became one of solace, comfort, celebration. Wedding receptions, birthday parties, graduation ceremonies, five grandchildren taking their first wobbly steps on the floors of this very home.
25 years of memories--good, bad and in-between. There are no words to adequately express the loss.
Unfortunately, amongst the flames and the rubble they lost not only precious irreplaceable memories but one-half of their income.
Karl Landrus has been running his metal fabrication business out of their home for the past two years. All of the materials and machines that he has used to create customized pieces for his clients were set up in their garage. All of this--his pieces and parts, vintage rebuilt motocross bikes, his passion, his very livelihood--has been destroyed. He poured over ten years into KLP (Karl Landrus Products) and now in the blink of an eye it is gone. A complete welding and metal fabrication shop setup is worth a value of $100,000.
Karen, a deeply devoted first grade teacher and reading specialist, had a book collection and classroom supplies that she has built up over 30 years. Curriculum, toys, chapter books and board books...gone.
Everything they have worked tirelessly and selflessly for was lost in a matter of hours to the cruel force of nature.
Please join us in helping Karl and Karen rebuild and create a new home in which memories and love and laughter can thrive, as well as Karl's home-business.
Prayers, donations and shares of this fund page is very much--from the bottom of all of our hearts--appreciated. Thank you.
Many lives have been touched by the hospitality and love that has flowed from this home through the years. As a family they faced the unpredictable and tragic loss of their wife and mother Gretchen in this very house, just a short time after it was built. Karen joined the family a few years later to care for and nurture the Landrus children as her own. The family wrestled and worked through the loss and over the years that home became one of solace, comfort, celebration. Wedding receptions, birthday parties, graduation ceremonies, five grandchildren taking their first wobbly steps on the floors of this very home.
25 years of memories--good, bad and in-between. There are no words to adequately express the loss.
Unfortunately, amongst the flames and the rubble they lost not only precious irreplaceable memories but one-half of their income.
Karl Landrus has been running his metal fabrication business out of their home for the past two years. All of the materials and machines that he has used to create customized pieces for his clients were set up in their garage. All of this--his pieces and parts, vintage rebuilt motocross bikes, his passion, his very livelihood--has been destroyed. He poured over ten years into KLP (Karl Landrus Products) and now in the blink of an eye it is gone. A complete welding and metal fabrication shop setup is worth a value of $100,000.
Karen, a deeply devoted first grade teacher and reading specialist, had a book collection and classroom supplies that she has built up over 30 years. Curriculum, toys, chapter books and board books...gone.
Everything they have worked tirelessly and selflessly for was lost in a matter of hours to the cruel force of nature.
Please join us in helping Karl and Karen rebuild and create a new home in which memories and love and laughter can thrive, as well as Karl's home-business.
Prayers, donations and shares of this fund page is very much--from the bottom of all of our hearts--appreciated. Thank you.
Organizer and beneficiary
Melissa Landrus
Organizer
Tacoma, WA
Karl and Karen Landrus
Beneficiary
