People's Burn Foundation Focus Group
Audiocourses
People's Burn Foundation Focus Group
When?
May 21 at 4pm EST 2007 (1pm SL time)
Where?
Audio SIM in Secondlife
http://slurl.com/secondlife/audio/134/128/31
The event is open to anyone but it targeted at college students.
Press is welcome - please distriute this noecard to friends.
Della Hines is a burn survivor. She understands the raw pain that burn
victims live with every day. She knows the horror of the unthinkable.
In 1991, a fire in her home claimed the lives of two of her three
children. It is a day burned into her mind forever ~ a day that
changed her life forever.
The fire was caused by an electrical short in a lamp cord. At the
time, Della lived in an apartment, and smoke detectors were not
properly installed. They were installed too low on the wall, making
the smoke detectors ineffective. By the time smoke traveled from the
ceiling down to the alarm, it was too late. She was trapped and
disoriented from the super-heated gases. Della's little girl Mary, age
2, was sleeping in her crib in the next room. Della couldn't get to
Mary; the smoke was too thick. Nicholas, age 4, became frightened and
crawled under the bed to hide. Firefighters couldn't find him. Jamie,
Della's oldest, managed to crawl next to her mother under the window
and they were rescued, but not before sustaining second and third
degree burns and significant inhalation injuries. While Della was
comatose in one hospital, Jamie struggled for her life in another.
Neither were expected to live. Nicholas and Mary were buried without
their mother and sister present.
Healthy survival gave Della the inspiration to educate children and
parents and to help other burn survivors alleviate some of their pain
through proper and easily accessible assistance. In 1996, Della
founded the People's Burn Foundation (PBF) in memory of her children,
Nicholas and Mary Lorch.