Lucky to be alive today

[Sid]

Wayne, very glad you, the family and all critters are OK and the blender is the only casulity. I'm sure it was a terrifing ordeal to say the least.

[infernalis]

Wayne, very glad you, the family and all critters are OK and the blender is the only casulity. I'm sure it was a terrifing ordeal to say the least.

Thanks Sid..

Scared me more how close I was to ignoring it, it was only like 5:00 am and I usually don't get up till 6.

We sleep with the radio on (My brain is hyper active, and without a distraction, I just lay there thinking all night) At first I thought it was FM static on the radio, Then I switched it off, the noise was still there.

Finally decided to get up, I opened the bedroom door and it was a bit louder, yet still I thought one of the aquarium filters had lost prime.

I walked down the hallway and started noticing the smell, and it was definitely coming from the kitchen. The fire was dancing around under the speed selection keys!!! I grabbed the cord and yanked it out, then promptly chucked the blender out the back door!

Been burning a scented candle all day to try and drive that melted motor smell out of the house........

Thankfully it was making noise!! most electrical malfunctions are silent.

[GartersRock]

Oh my god Wayne!! I am so glad you are ok!! AHH! This kind of stuff really freaks me out...

[drache]

fire can be really really scary when it's right in front of you and taller
I once almost burned down a friend's house and possibly an entire canyon community by accident - and I was wide awake
the friend I was house-sitting for had a small wooden cottage with a wood-stove for heat in a canyon filled with dry sagebrush and manzanita and other dry stuff
it was one of those rectangular free standing ones, with the pipe coming out one end, a door with a little ledge in front at the other end and two round iron plates set into the top, that could be lifted out with a handle one inserted
anyway
I was poking around inside to rearrange things and accidentally jammed a largish log onto the bottom of one of the iron plates and it fell into the stove, basically opening up half of the top of the stove, with the sudden updraft making the flames shoot up to the wooden roof
by the time I was done fixing that mess, I was shaking and unable to stand
taught me a lot about the stove that came in handy when I spent the following winter living in a yurt with a smaller version of the same thing

thankfully I've never actually experienced my house with all my stuff burning up

a friend had that happen though and it was due to a heat lamp accident

[GartersRock]

Wow... I am so scared of fire...

[Snake lover 3-25]

my friend had a heat lamp over a group of baby chicks and it started a fire burning down the entire 2nd story of her house.....

[Charlet_2007]

I've been thu a house fire before.. 3 years ago this June 27th to be exact..

The fire started not 10 feet from where my daughter was sleeping in her crib.. and in the computer room in the cornor where my 9 foot albino burm was and our 150g tank with my 23 inch long pacu.. the house was built back in 1920 so you can imagine how fast it went up...

I have pics if anyone wants to see them.. we was awake it was 9:00 pm it started in the computer room electric fire.. I was back in the computer room when the phone rang it was for aaorn jenna was in her crib asleep aaron was out in the grage with his friend fixing his car when i handed him the phone..

No more then i handed the phone to him the only smoke detector we had at the time because we had just moved in and hadn't got done unpacking some boxes when it off (it was in a box stuffed in a closet totally on the other side of the house the farest away from the fire and it still went off.) I looked at aaron hes like whats that im like i dont knwo and ran to see if jenna was alright..

When I got to the front room it looked hazie not smokie but i couldnt see to good.. I thought it was just me and then i came to jennas room the whole room was coved in smoke.. I couldn't even see her.. so walking in to her room I wouldnt even know where she was if i hadnt knowen how her room was set up.. But i saw the fire and knew which way it was going up the wall and back towards the back sliding double doors that was open.. I grabed jenna her blanket and ran..

Came back out to aaron yelled our house is on fire hes like yeah right.. im like no go look.. not the best thing to tell him.. he get to jennas room the fire has all ready engulfed it.. aaron comes back hair singed and trys to call 911 but its already takn the phone the next door nabors come out ask if anyones in there were like no were all out.. seems like it take forever for the fire trucks to get there before they get there it blew 2 transformers..

Now I never herd them go off before i thought we was getting bombed as well when it happend. What the fire didnt take the water and smoke damage did.. The fire fighters I'm guessing found where the house at one time was ran by propane and the one fire fighter found the line and yelled gas line they all ran at the time after everything was going on it was kind of funny watching them all run and knowing its was all electrical in the house lol..

Out of all the animals we had and the house fire we still have the one pleco that lived thu it.. His name is Luky and we've had him for 5 years now.. he's 16 inches long..

[Snake lover 3-25]

wow that's crazy..... so you lost the berm and the pacu???? that stinks.... but i'm glad it was them rather than a family member......

[Charlet_2007]

the burm the pacu the 150g the 125g the snake was in the 125g and the 150g shadders in to peices the size of a nail head.. i had 70+ rats for food for our snake.. we had turtles.. rabbits our momma cat had kittens 7 of them they were gone.. so much losted in like 2 hours..

[Snake lover 3-25]

man that really stinks...... so sorry for your loss