From Dan, Cesar, 
Chris and Greg:

Thank you to the 
HEROES for helping
out at the fire!

Photos below were provided by
Denni "Capitana" Meijering
Natalie Sullivan
George Knight
Peter Gould

Click here for photos of 
Casa Jocote before the fire.

All things considered there was a minimal amount of damage and it was contained to only one Villa. The plus side of this sad event completes a full page! There was minimal exterior damage around the villa, most of the personal belongings of long term residents Dan Polley and Cesar Paniamogan were saved, there were no injuries from the fire (a few burns and scrapes suffered by our local heroes,) and no guests were in the villa at the time of the fire. We experienced a wonderful team effort by all of Piedras y Olas and once again, amazing care and concern from the community of San Juan del Sur. We are very grateful to all of our wonderful employees and the townspeople, locals and foreigners, who came to help us fight the fire.

As luck would have it a guest in the hotel, Dan Fisher, a third generation fireman from the Phoenix, Arizona area, was here and helped guide our Sailboat Captain Denny Meijering in a well orchestrated team effort. As well, George Knight was his usual indispensable self with help and organization. 

Dan and Cesar will be posting a site to host a lot of these pictures, not taken by Dan and Cesar personally, but by two of our employees and owner Peter Gould. Watch their website for these pictures. www.dancesar.com. We believe all of you will be amazed at the coordinated efforts of all of these great people.

Casa Jocote is fully insured, as are all of our fully constructed, privately owned villas as well as those which are currently under construction. Reconstruction plans for Greg’s villa and Dan and Cesar’s home are in process now. Our water supplies are adequate to the cause and we now know what systems need to be fine tuned.

Please be proud of your Piedras y Olas family and San Juan del Sur friends. Everyone is to be commended for a job well done. We are still considering what token of appreciation we can offer our town friends. Within Piedras y Olas we’ll be a long time repaying our debt of gratitude to our own family.

Thanks to you all,  Jean, Chris, Jiff, Vilma, Elise and All of the Piedras y Olas Staff