Fire!We were all in my aunt's kitchen at the back of her huge rambling Victorian house. I was only small and had wandered off to go to the loo, but given up after finding the hall full of smoke. "That was quick," my mum said after a few minutes. "Yes - it's all smoky," I replied.
I've never seen adults move so fast.
So, like my cousin who'd managed to set fire to the roof, tell us your fire stories.
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chthonic, Thu 3 Nov 2005, 9:11)
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Mad old Mr Busby the crazy chemistry teacherWhen I was at school (far too long ago) we had those big old wooden desks in the science labs that had integral sinks, gas taps etc and about 15 of you could sit around each one.
We also had this insane teacher called Mr Busby who couldn't have looked more like a mad scientist. He always wore his white coat, had crazy white hair everywhere and wore glasses that made his eyes look huge.
Once day we were doing some experiment that involved heating a conical falsk full of something called Xylene (I think) which is very flammable.
The first fatal mistake old Mr Busby made was to tell everyone not to heat it too much or it might catch on fire. Naturally being 14 year olds we all put the bunsens onto full whack. Cue 3 foot jets of flame all around the classroom.
The second fatal flaw was how he tried to put my flaming flask out. He picked up a plastic tray and placed it on top of my flask hoping to kill the fire. All seemed well until he lifted the tray off. The heat had melted the tray a little and as he lifted it, the flask came with it; but only for a few seconds. The flask fell, shattered and spilled flaming liquid over the entire desk. I'll never forget the image of my mate's pencil case going up in flames. I also got to use a fire extinguisher which was really cool!
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