Please Help Chicks Beach-Grandy Girls Rebuild

On March 4, Alex Stalls,
James Herslow jr., Lincoln Herslow, and
Laura Stalls barely got out of our house alive.
They lost everything but they are so grateful to be alive and recovering.
This fundraiser is only going to be used to build a home for the family.

Formerly from the Chick's Beach area of  Va. Beach, they moved from Tennessee back to Currituck for the second time,
to be close to Alex's father who had cancer.
They were planning to move back to the mountains into a sustainable green type of home with space for gardens and a
few animals and had been saving for 5 years and had a sum of cash and some gold and gem stones in a fire safe that
they were not  allowed to retrieve before the demolition company hauled everything away.

Any help is so much appreciated to help them rebuild and  to ensure that they will
never be in a position like  this again! Every little bit matters! This account is
going to be used to build a new green  home. We hope that love from you will
help to make it a fast journey. Thank you in advance for your kindness.

OBX Voice. Written by: Michelle Wagner
On the night of March 4, Laura Stalls had fallen asleep on the couch of the century-old farmhouse in Grandy she had
renovated into “The Great White Hall” Airbnb bed & breakfast inn more than five years earlier. Due to COVID-19,
Stalls hadn’t had guests at the inn for the past year. But Stall’s daughter, Alexandra (Alex) Stalls, and two grandchildren –
two-year-old James and one-year-old Lincoln Herslow – had recently moved in and were asleep upstairs.

Shortly after midnight, Stalls woke to a loud bang in the back of the house, a
noise she would quickly discover was a window being blown out from a fire that had erupted as she and her family slept. A harrowing 15
minutes followed as Stalls screamed for Alex and eventually ran up the stairs, through flames, to reach her daughter and the two
grandsons upstairs..
My steps to go upstairs are right at the back door, at the back porch of the house,” Stalls recalled during a Voice interview. “The flames
were coming in and the only thing I could do was go through them to get to Alex and the babies.
I was screaming and screaming, and they couldn’t hear me…I mean it sounded like a freight train, it was so loud.”

What ensued was a dramatic and brave rescue that ended up with Alexandra and her two sons uninjured, but with Stalls in Sentara Norfolk General Hospital with burns, some of them third-degree burns, covering about 20% of her body. After
undergoing two skin graft surgeries, she was released exactly three weeks from the date of the fire.

In her recounting of the story, Alex said that when her mother reached her and the boys upstairs, the clothing on Stalls’
back and one arm were smoldering with flames that were quickly put out. Holding tightly to the boys and calming them by
telling them they were going on a small adventure, the mother and daughter quickly climbed out a window onto the
roof above the front porch.....

please go to OBX Voice to read the rest this story. 

https://www.outerbanksvoice.com/2021/04/06/it-sounded-like-a-freight-train/