Bible pulled from house fire is "a miracle"Bernice Hunt's Bible was pulled from the ashes without a charred edge or a burnt page. The only damage at all was a little moisture from the fire hoses.
But it certainly isn't the way she planned to start 2012.
Hunt tells News 12, "I ran downstairs and went to get my son and tell him FIRE! FIRE! FIRE!"
The home she lived in for twenty years caught fire and destroyed most of her belongings.
"It's a miracle I didn't get hurt, and my son didn't get hurt," Hunt says.
And that isn't the only miracle.
A firefighter pulled her family Bible from the ashes--unscathed.
Christopher Hinton, the firefighter from McDuffie County that discovered the Bible, tells News 12, "Everything beside the Bible, and on the Bible was burnt, so i moved it. And the Bible was wet and cold."
It was sitting on Hunt's nightstand which was in the corner of her bedroom. All that is left of that corner now is a pile of rubble.
"I couldn't believe what i was seeing. I mean, it was a miracle," Hinton says.
And this Bible is something special to the family.
Hunt says, "It's a family heirloom."
And Hunt's son Dellwyn who also in the house when it caught fire says, "It belonged to my dad, and he passed away about 1991."
Life hasn't been easy for Hunt. She lost her husband, she was diagnosed with cancer, survived open heart surgery, and now--this. But, Hunt says she has always and will always keep the faith.
"We thankful and grateful. And everything else, it'll fall into place sooner or later," Hunt says.
And her son says, there is only one explanation.
"Just the Lord. It's gotta be."
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