{"id":6325,"date":"2014-04-16T18:18:58","date_gmt":"2014-04-16T22:18:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/?p=6325"},"modified":"2014-04-16T18:18:58","modified_gmt":"2014-04-16T22:18:58","slug":"preschoolers-were-on-hand-when-church-fire-broke-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/preschoolers-were-on-hand-when-church-fire-broke-out\/","title":{"rendered":"Preschoolers were on hand when church fire broke out"},"content":{"rendered":"

My boys\u2019 last day of YMCA preschool will be remembered by all!
\nMateo and Mason are still asking questions and expressing concern while pointing out the smoke from home.
\nMelissa, their teacher, said the men working on the roof came down and banged on the door to the gym and said the roof was on fire. Then the alarm went off.
\nEveryone was immediately and safely evacuated. The children were amazingly brave and obedient. They have practiced fire drills as part of their safety and learning experience at the YMCA. I never imagined they would have to use it there.
\nThey scurried to TC\u2019s Burgers and waited for their pick-up while Kim, Melissa and other moms dialed them to explain the situation.
\nMost of the kids were more concerned that they didn\u2019t get to eat their snack before getting evacuated. Their jackets, bags, boots and artwork is still inside the church basement where it will hopefully survive.
\nThe fire is still burning. The boys ran out back as soon as we got home to spot the smoke in the sky. They\u2019re both sad and worried.
\nKim and Melissa were my heroes today, and we will be back as soon as the preschool opens again to say our official thank you and goodbye since our last day was unlike any other.
\n
\nMeave Mastracci
\nAurora<\/strong><\/p>\n

(Editor\u2019s Note: The Auroran received Ms. Mastracci\u2019s letter just before noon on Friday.)<\/p>\n\"Facebook\"<\/a>\"twitter\"<\/a>\"mail\"<\/a>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

My boys\u2019 last day of YMCA preschool will be remembered by all! Mateo and Mason are still asking questions and expressing concern while pointing out the smoke from home. Melissa, their teacher, said the men working on the roof came down and banged on the door to the gym and said the roof was on […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6325","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-letters-opinion"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3D2k4-1E1","publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-05-01 17:36:04","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6325","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6325"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6325\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6325"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6325"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6325"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}