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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Haybarns...Once a few years ago I worked all summer on a local farm (yes I'm the rural type).
I was sitting outside a grain silo in the sun listening to the radio awaiting the next load of grain to turn up when I noticed on the horizon a plume of smoke rising from the direction of the farms hay store some two miles away. I radioed my boss to tell him about it and we all drove over there to find the barn, several tons of hay and the spare forklift truck mightly ablaze. To be honest it looked very impressive until my boss started panicing because stored right next to this blazing inferno were about 10 - 20 two ton bags of amonia. Que much frantic running about, dragging over-heating bags of amonia away from the blaze.
The police found out later that two local kids had been lighting bits of hay and throwing them at each other...
(, Mon 7 Nov 2005, 16:43, Reply)
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