It never happened to me, but a ton of others I have known.
Yup. The day that Mrs rktman and I got married, I got a phone call early that morning from my ex’s neighbor letting me know that my two youngest were safe but their house burned down during the night. Ex was dating a firefighter at the time and oddly, some keepsake things and valuables had been moved to my ex mother in laws house a couple days before. Wedding proceeded as planned. Weird huh? That was 30+ years ago and she’s gone and me and mrs rktman are doing great.