Justin Sullivan and his family were vacationing in Ireland when the unthinkable happened.

“We got a call from the smoke alarm company telling us our smoke alarm was going off,” Sullivan recalled. “Our first thought was something tripped it, but then reality hits you … and seconds later your neighbor is calling you frantically telling you your house is on fire.”

“When somebody tells you your house is on fire, you’re just thinking it’s just going to be small and the fire department is going to get there and take care of it,” he continued. “But that’s not what happened.”

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