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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Quickly then...Was poking around the village hall aged 14, when I found a big puddle of heating oil where the enormous, three quarters full, central heating tank was leaking.
Being not entirely stupid, I didn't set it on fire...no, instead, I dipped a stick in it, and set that on fire.
Surprisingly, the stick went 'whoomph'. And I dropped it in the puddle.
What followed next was a minute of pure panic where I tried to put out a rather large fire which was creeping up the side of an enormous tank of heating oil.
Managed to smother it eventually by covering it with my favourite coat and stamping the rest down. My coat was charred to buggery, but at least I didn't *actually* blow up the hall...
(, Fri 4 Nov 2005, 11:09, Reply)
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