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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Pyromaniac BrotherOkay, who remembers the old calor gas fires? Well we used to have one near to the front door of our flat as you walked in, it was also where the stairs were to the flat and where we kept our bikes/junk. My brother used to be a right pyromaniac he was about 4 when this happened. One night he went down stairs to the lit fire and started poking bits of rolled up newspaper into the squares on the mesh gaurd. The newspaper must have caught fire and he came back up stairs and got into bed without saying a word thinking that he would probably be in big trouble.
Next minute i wake up and see smoke all around us in the room that i shared with my brother, i get out of bed and run into mum and dads room. MUM DAD THE HOUSE IS FULL OF SMOKE. Dad jumps out of bed sees where the smoke is coming from runs downstairs to see the left over newspaper at the foot of the fire ablaze half the carpet and a binbag full of clothes.
I don't remember a thing, mum reminded me of it a couple of years ago. Dad somehow put the fire out but apparently he was naked whilst doing so.
Mum says his pubes took a while to grow back.
Not that i needed to know that much detail about the story.
(, Fri 4 Nov 2005, 14:43, Reply)
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