‘I’ll never forget the screams,’ duplex neighbor says
Isaacson, family were sleeping near destroyed home where 2 died
By Paul Srubas, Green Bay Press Gazette (Click for Full Story)
Erin Isaacson can’t get the sounds of the screams out of her head.
Isaacson, 23, and her husband, who live in both Ellison Bay and Green Bay, were the first neighbors on the scene when explosions caused a duplex to burn and two nearby buildings to collapse early Monday. Two people died and several people were injured in the duplex fire.
Two explosions were so loud and so close, Erin Isaacson awakened thinking they had happened in her parents’ condominium, where she and her husband, her parents and grandparents were staying. Their condominium is about 50 yards from the destroyed duplex.
“It shook our house. I saw the walls move. I thought it was our house — it sounded like a bomb in our house,” Isaacson said Tuesday. “I thought we would find that a tree came through.”
Erin and Andy Isaacson ran out barefooted and in their pajamas to investigate, she said. They immediately smelled the smoke and heard screaming.
“I’ll never forget the screams,” Isaacson said. “I’ve just been sick. I thought I was going to throw up.”
When they approached the back door of the duplex, they saw three people, apparently injured, lying in the grass, and a girl running and screaming for her mother.