Come On Baby, Light My Fire
So we had a party at our house last night. About 8 firemen, a cop, and an ambulance showed up for it.
At about 10:15pm, Chris decided to light a fire in the basement fireplace (woodburning). This was the first fire we'd had since we moved in, as we didn't have any wood this winter. The wood he used was from the built-in closet he had torn out of the baby's room last weekend, which was fairly old and quite dry. The fire got hot quickly, and suddenly, we heard this "WHOOSH!" Like a rush of winds, up the chimney! Chris ran outside to see sparks shooting out the top of the chimney, and considering the fire was in the basement and the chimney exhales at the peak of the second floor roof, the fire must have been going pretty good in there.
It only took about 1.76 minutes for me to realize that we had better not gamble with this fire, as this is our new house and I didn't really want to have to find another place to live with the baby coming in 6 weeks! Chris threw some water on the fire in the fireplace and I quickly told him to call 911. The cop was at our house in less than a minute, and told us to get in our car and go down the block.
So, at about 10:45 pm, we watched as 2 fire engines, a fire truck, and an ambulance all pulled up in front of our house, lights and all. I can't remember if they had the sirens going or not.
Four guys got up on the roof and by that time - probably about 10-12 minutes after the fire had started, we were pretty sure it was already out. They stayed up there, monitoring for about 15 minutes. They took some stuff to throw down the chimney if need be, but they didn't have to use it.
The firemen did get our carpet dirty in a few places from their boots, as well as some dirt smudges on the walls, but there was no damage to the house from the fire. We were instructed to call our homeowners insurance right away as well. The whole situation was sort of embarassing, and really quite hilarious - I couldn't help but laugh at ourselves as we sat in our car, a half block away, watching all these fire engines pull up to our little house! The neighbors were in their driveways watching the show. Glad we could provide some Saturday night entertainment!!
At about 10:15pm, Chris decided to light a fire in the basement fireplace (woodburning). This was the first fire we'd had since we moved in, as we didn't have any wood this winter. The wood he used was from the built-in closet he had torn out of the baby's room last weekend, which was fairly old and quite dry. The fire got hot quickly, and suddenly, we heard this "WHOOSH!" Like a rush of winds, up the chimney! Chris ran outside to see sparks shooting out the top of the chimney, and considering the fire was in the basement and the chimney exhales at the peak of the second floor roof, the fire must have been going pretty good in there.
It only took about 1.76 minutes for me to realize that we had better not gamble with this fire, as this is our new house and I didn't really want to have to find another place to live with the baby coming in 6 weeks! Chris threw some water on the fire in the fireplace and I quickly told him to call 911. The cop was at our house in less than a minute, and told us to get in our car and go down the block.
So, at about 10:45 pm, we watched as 2 fire engines, a fire truck, and an ambulance all pulled up in front of our house, lights and all. I can't remember if they had the sirens going or not.
Four guys got up on the roof and by that time - probably about 10-12 minutes after the fire had started, we were pretty sure it was already out. They stayed up there, monitoring for about 15 minutes. They took some stuff to throw down the chimney if need be, but they didn't have to use it.
The firemen did get our carpet dirty in a few places from their boots, as well as some dirt smudges on the walls, but there was no damage to the house from the fire. We were instructed to call our homeowners insurance right away as well. The whole situation was sort of embarassing, and really quite hilarious - I couldn't help but laugh at ourselves as we sat in our car, a half block away, watching all these fire engines pull up to our little house! The neighbors were in their driveways watching the show. Glad we could provide some Saturday night entertainment!!
posted by Heather | 7:22 PM
1 Comments:
I TOTALLY want to be your sister. You know it!!! Oh yeah, this is regarding your comment on my past blog post...Hm... Ha ha. Now you have to deal with all of my randomness and you can't get away from it because we're now SISTERS!!! (insert evil laugh here). Plus, I'm hungry
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