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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Post fire story, this isYears ago, the Johnson's Wax plant/factory/building caught on fire with lots of exploding hot scaldy wax. The survivors (not too many, sad to say) were flown to a top notch burn unit in another country.
My friend Bert was the respiratory therapist that day* and so was suctioning some goo out of a patient's lungs. The red rubber tube came out about 10 inches longer than it went in. Bert was staring at it in puzzlement,trying to make sense of an impossible sight when the end of the tube turned around and looked at him.
Did I say the wax factory was in a part of the world where people routinely have parasites? Yeah. In this case it was a huge red worm inhabiting this poor gentleman's lungs.
*may have told this story before. If so, sorry.
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