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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slow burnmy boyfriend grew up in South Africa for a while, specifically Johannesburg, where it tends to rain but still stay very warm.
One year, he was playing with matches and flicking then into the roof gutter clogged with damp leaves from his roof window. Got called down for dinner, thought nothing more of it.
A few months later, their roof went 'whoomp'.
The firemen find his matches and he got the bollocking of his life. Turns out damp leaves can retain the heat and a dry spell will make them catch fire.
No roof left to speak of.
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