House fire last night


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Posted by Frank USMC on Thursday, April 14, 2005 at 11:19AM :

Last night our house got on fire. My Bride put a big glass candel jar on the wood burning stove, well, the jar shattered. It was like pouring oil on the stove. I ran to the family room when I heard her screaming. We keep 7 fire extinguishers in our house, I went through 3 of them before the fire was put out. I would put the fire out, just to have it reflash. Thank God, we had back up fire extinguisers, or we would have lost the house. The fire was not putting out allot of smoke, just ALLOT of flames. The area the wood burning stove is all bricked in, so that also saved us. We also have 7 smoke alarms in the house and they all were screaming. My friend next door could even hear them.
We are now waiting for the insurance company to come over and look at the mess. The family room looks like a White Chrismas.
If you have just one fire extinguiser in your house, I would get a couple more and TRAIN your family members to know were they are and how to use them. My Bride had trouble finding the one in the kitchen because she was so shook up.
One more note. I am also a firefighter with 25 years of eating smoke, no house is worth a life. I fought this fire because it was in one small area and I had opened the sliding glass doors so I had some good air. If, it had gotten to the roof I would have gotten out.
Today is clean up and wait for the insurance company.
CHECK your smoke alarms and fire extinguisers.
Not as lean, not as mean, but still a Marine. Frank



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