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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welding is fun...for uni this year we all get to pop over to the college to do some practical workshoppey style tasks, this weeks being a morning learning how to weld
oxyacetaline torches, rather cool devices that burn at close to 3000c, so handy for melting metal, so off to work we go, halfway through getting distracted by the torrent of swearwords coming from a friends table and her dissappearing off
turns out she has been welding, stopped, then picked up the bit of metal she had been working on, which at that point was recovering from her attack on it, and sitting at a couple of hundred degree's, cue her managing to get a rather nasty burnt hand through the leather gloves she was wearing, hence the torrent of swearing and the dissapearence to the nurse
bloody metal, when you are welding it, it is red hot, which fairly rapidly cools down to the natural colour when you stop the heat, unfortunately at that ponit it is still very hot and takes a few minutes to cool down properly
luckily i managed not to repeat her move, and was lucky enough to realise in time every time i went to grab it, or it had cooled down enough to let me drop it before it caused damage
David
(, Fri 4 Nov 2005, 18:58, Reply)
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