| Location | Dagenham Essex |
| Age | 21 years |
| Cause of Death | Fire |
| Date of Birth | 07/05/1985 |
| Date of Death | 07/04/2007 |
| Visitors | 2,133 since 19/07/2008 |
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Ricky Long who died on the 7th april 2007 aged 21.
Ricky was a welder by trade but also done tyre fitting.
Rickys last address was 96 Oxlow Lane Dagenham Essex but had also lived at West Crescent Canvey
Island and prior to this at Crescent Road Dagenham all in essex.
Ricky left behind a large family of 1 sister Claire Long 2 brothers Scott and Stephen Sone mother
Linda Dolling father Peter Long and niece's and nephews.
Ricky Long died in a house fire at his home address 96 Oxlow lane Dagenham Essex.
Ricky was a very clever boy in the way of he could achive anything that he put his mind too. These
things included circuit work, mechanical repairs and general odd jobs.
Ricky although he never knew, was a much loved individual who was extremely witty and funny only he
could make you laugh all day long and give you face ache.
He was also at times a pain in the rear end. Especialy with his have you gots and can I borrows. But
he was loved all the same unconditionaly.
Dear Ricky,
You were with us the night of the fire at my home and I did try to convince you to stay the night
but you was too hungry and wanted to go home for something to eat. Maybe if i'd of cooked for you
when you asked you would of stayed and not gone home and turned your grill on. I'll never forget the
morning of the day you died. Police knocked and told me and our brother steve what had happened to
you. Those exact words still sound in my head "we regret to inform you that there was a fire at your
brothers home address 96 oxlow lane in which he never managed to escape" Those words are still the
basis for my nightmares. I asked the officers if they had told mum and thats when I found out that I
was the first to know and had to tell mum and our family.
Mum was the first person I told. She went barmy she was hysterical. All I could her was her pounding
the phone I'm not sure what she was doing but I could feel her pain. Steve went straight round to
her. No one expects to have to bury there children and too have to bury our youngest was the last
thing any of us thought we would have to do. The police were good and even went to get everybody
(mum,Scott, Julie etc.) Once we were all together we just couldn't get our heads round what had
happened. We decided to go to your home and lay flowers. When we arrived to lay the flowers we were
let through a police cordon. That is when we discovered at nearly two in the afternoon that you was
still laying upstairs in your room. Steve started shouting "Get him out before I do! You cant leave
him there where's your respect!" A Fire investigator Ian Atkinson was there and tried to explain
that they couldn't move you till the coroner arrived as there was no where to put you. Steve calmed
down and eventualy broke down into Ian's arms.
Ian was the one who told us when asked, that you did wake up and may of tried to get out but because
the fire had been burning so long you just fainted and fell to sleep. Your friend Jason who lived in
the room below you heard o loud bang (which was probably your windows blowing out) and went to
investigate to discover the fire. He managed to get everyone out the house but you had locked your
door behind you and as hard as Jay kicked couldn't open the door to get you out. I can only imagine
how hard it was for him to know that he couldn't do anything and for that he constantly punished
himself. Although myself and the family were very grateful.
Just then the coroner arrived to collect you and we was asked if we wanted to leave whilst you were
being moved. We all looked at eachother and decided "together we stand, together we will fall" so we
stood all holding eachother and watched as you were carried out. You had full thickness burns and
therefore they could not lay you in the coffin properly so they had a sheet across you. It was awful
but we did it out of respect for you "blood". We all walked around at my house for days in
autopilot. No one knowing what to say or do. Just lost.
We didn't have a last chance to see you at the undertakers. Because of your burns we were just
presented with a box. We didn't even have anything that we could hold, feel touch and smell because
it had all been lost in the fire. Scott, Steve and myself arranged your funeral with a little help
from mum. We decided that because of your love for bright colours we would all wear brite orange for
the funeral day.
Everyone who attended wore either orange or had orange ribbon on. The flowers were also orange
mainly or with orange edging on them. We even choose luminous orange for the lining of your coffin.
The funeral left from my house cause thats where you always was. It was very respecful and if only
you could see the people that packed out my road to watch you leave youd know just how much you were
loved. The funeral went well untill they asked us to leave and I couldn't do it. I'd been everywhere
with you. Now I'd come here and was just going to leave you at the crem. It felt awful I think it
was the first time I actualy broke down.
Lots of our relations came back again like dad, Uncle Rich and Jay. And all was gutted that they had
missed out on such a wonderful person as you.
It has absolutely wrecked me reliving these moments as to put them on here for you. But unlike you
I'll live to see another day. It's been just over a year now and the pain is meant to get easier.
For me it dosen't. I just want you back.
Loving you always
Sis xxx
Ricky was my little brother, the youngest of four of us. And I thank the lord that I was blessed to
have known him for the time that I did. He was my best friend, my soulmate and my confident. He
would always listen to my troubles and offer advice to the best of his capabilities. Ricky was an
extension of my own self and without him I am eternaly lost. He was forever by my side and without
him there is just empty space Ricky was the best friend anybody could have although he kept himself
quite private at times. He could also be the most outgoing party animal you ever saw and if there
was a party and a beer he would be there. Myself and all that was close to Ricky have loads of good
memories of Ricky that will live on in our hearts and tales forever more!!!!!
In the process of adding music.... Metallica nothing else matters.... song will play as you enter
this page!!!! so keep checking this page x
love always paula ( thomas harrison) x x x x x x
Few people come into our lives
and make everything shine,
but you're one of those
rare and splendid jewels
who makes the whole world bright.
When I am sad, you make me smile.
When I am alone and blue,
you are there for me,
and you make me feel strong enough
to accomplish anything.
Because I appreciate
the many things you do,
more than words can say,
I'm sending you the Candle of Love,
and hoping you receive
many blessings from above.
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Please send the candle of love to someone
who has touched your life, and keep the flame
of love burning bright.
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love always paula ( thomas harrison) x x x x x x
SAND AND STONE
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TWO FRIENDS WERE WALKING
THROUGH THE DESERT
DURING SOME POINT OF THE
JOURNEY, THEY HAD AN
ARGUMENT; AND ONE FRIEND
SLAPPED THE OTHER ONE
IN THE FACE
THE ONE WHO GOT SLAPPED
WAS HURT, BUT WITHOUT
SAYING ANYTHING,
WROTE IN THE SAND
'TODAY MY BEST FRIEND
SLAPPED ME IN THE FACE'
THEY KEPT ON WALKING,
UNTIL THEY FOUND AN OASIS,
WHERE THEY DECIDED
TO TAKE A BATH
THE ONE WHO HAD BEEN
SLAPPED GOT STUCK IN THE
MIRE! AND STARTED DROWNING,
BUT THE FRIEND SAVED HIM.
AFTER HE RECOVERED FROM
THE NEAR DROWNING,
HE WROTE ON A STONE:
'TODAY MY BEST FRIEND
SAVED MY LIFE'
THE FRIEND WHO HAD SLAPPED
AND SAVED HIS BEST FRIEND
ASKED HIM, 'AFTER I HURT YOU,
YOU WROTE IN THE SAND AND NOW,
YOU WRITE ON A STONE, WHY?'
'THE FRIEND REPLIED
WHEN SOMEONE HURTS US
WE SHOULD WRITE IT DOWN
IN SAND, WHERE WINDS OF
FORGIVENESS CAN ERASE IT AWAY
BUT, WHEN SOMEONE DOES
SOMETHING GOOD FOR US,
WE MUST ENGRAVE IT IN STONE
WHERE NO WIND
CAN EVER ERASE IT'
LEARN TO WRITE
YOUR HURTS IN
THE SAND AND TO
CARVE YOUR
BENEFITS IN STONE.
THEY SAY IT TAKES A
MINUTE TO FIND A SPECIAL PERSON,
AN HOUR TO APPRECIATE THEM,
A DAY TO LOVE THEM,
BUT THEN
AN ENTIRE LIFE
TO FORGET THEM.
SEND THIS TO
THE PEOPLE YOU'LL NEVER
FORGET.
I JUST DID.
TAKE THE TIME TO LIVE!
DO NOT VALUE THE THINGS
YOU HAVE IN YOUR LIFE, BUT VALUE
WHO YOU HAVE IN YOUR LIFE!
AND IF I HAPPEN TO GET IT BACK,
THEN I KNOW MY PLACE IN YOUR LIFE. X
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u dont no how much sum1 meens to u an till thay have gone
cuz u was always 1 to make me larth i would do any fing to have u back hear wiv us today i remember all them times u used to bang on at me about doin u a cd with my tunes on and me bein me kept on saying yes ill do it but never did so in respect im doing a tune for u im half way there lol and i no this might sound horribal in sum ways but we have lost alot of family members over the years and the one that kills me in side is u if only i new were u lived rick i got a call of my mate the night it happened and he said reece theres a big fire down oxo lane and it was that 1 night i dident go out if i was there and i did no were u lived belive me no matter how hard it was to take the door of i would have got it of and u no wat cuz wen im on my own yea i sit there and i cry ur death has had a big impact on me the day u died a part of me died
I LOVE YOU CUZ
this is 1 of the verses from the tune im doing for you
cuz u was like a brother to me
its like my worst nightmare has just become my reality
its hard to see hard to belive
on april the 7th u took another relative from me
my heart bleeds for scott.claire and steve
even though ur a lost memory
i wont let ur name fade away
fade away
into the back ground
into that light at the end of the tunnel man
R.I.P.R.I.C.K.Y.L.O.N.G
u took apart of me
wen u departed me
i fill lost ur apart of the family
full of ambishen
i fill this pain inside its eating me alive
if only i was there that night
i woulder put fings right
and maybe saved ur life
kicked the door of the hinges
and got inside
and pulled u to safety
i keep haveing these dreams
im hearing u screaming out for sum body
u was alone that nite and thats wat bothers me
i dident get the chance so this is my appolage
sorry g if u feeling me then follow me
im talking to the aconamy
u was a soulder
it takes a man to cry and show emotions
but ive bin blessed
wiv a guirden angle
sorry about sum of the spellings
RICKY U WILL ALWAYS HAVE A SPACE I MY HEART AND IF U DO EVER WANNA POP IN AND SAY HELLO U NO WERE I AM
I LOVE U MAN LOVE UR LIL CUZ REECE XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX
The things we feel so deeply
The things we feel so deeply
Are the hardest things to say
But your family loved you
In a very special way
They say memories ar golden
Well maybe that is true
But we never wanted memories
We only wanted you
If tears could build a stairway
And heartaches make a lane
We'd walk the path to heaven
And bring you home again
Our family chain has broken
And nothing feels the same
But as god takes us one by one
The chain will link again
Love you always son I never expected to be seeing you out before me. Love forever mum xxx
Just Naturally
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Friends are like flowers
That's how it should be
So sweet and so special
Just naturally
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Writing this poem
So you know that I care
Sending a flower
With love always there
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Soft and so smooth
With fragrance divine
With greatest emotion
My love is defined
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Hope when you get this
You'll send it to me
Keep love just flowing
That's how it should be.
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wish you were here x
As today is the day we scatered your ashes I think it's appropriate I write a lil sumin in your honour.
I wish we could just one more time,
stand side by side and laugh till we cry.
I know that this will never be,
but I know your there looking down on me.
today's my birthday and lonely I feel,
Now that your gone pain still there, and so real.
I cannot explain all the love I still cherish,
with no where to give it, inside I just perish.
what I wouldn't give to have just a minute,
To hold you so close with love and wrap you in it.
I hope that theres more than this life down here,
because then I'll know one day we'll be near.
I never had chance to say what i should,
And never even thought you would leave me for good.
all I have are memories now that your gone,
and no one can carry on the family name Long.
You never had the chance to have a family of your own,
And youll never see how much mine have grown.
I will remember you and keep your spirit alive,
and forever I'll talk to you in my strife.
I'll never forget you and I do love you so,
But only for now I'll have to let go.
Go and rest be at peace where you are,
I'LL LOVE YOU ETERNALY MY SHINING STAR!!!
for all
live for tomorrow not for yesterday look forward not back but remember memories will stay forever.
here a quotes for all xx.
sad that you have gone but you will be never to far from anyone heart as your smile was like a ray of sunshine on anyones day allway haveing fun when you where a kid on canvey you will be sadly missed xxxxxx
Y Is It Alwais D Good Ones.
I Didnt Really Speak To U That Much, Which I Hate Now Coz I Didnt Get To No Da Real U... I Rememba Wen I Used To C U And Steve All Da Tym Driving Down Amesbury Rd On Ur Bikes, Wen Id Be On Me Way Home From Work. Us Alwais Cheerdd Me Up N Made Me Lauf Wen Id Had A Crappy Day At Work... I Will Alwaiz Rememba Da Day I Waz told U Had Gone, I Was Devistated... Me Reece An Connor Have Still Got Our Orange Ribbonz, Wev Got Em Tied Around D End Of Our Bedz, So We No Dat Deres Alwaiz Something To Remind Us Of U. We Will Alwais Rememba Dat CheekY Little Smile Aswell, We All Miss U Loads Me, My Mum, Connor, Reece And My Dad, We Respect And Love U Unconditionally... Lovess UUU XXX Miss UUU XXX
drink for ya
well rick it was the town show this weekend and we all no you loved music and festivals.it was a good scream.i thought about you alot this weekend.but dont worry too much i ad a'drink for ya' miss you lots and think about you more.keep close to ya family and those who love you one love alixxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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