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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Beer cans and Fire...try it.Some old school friends and I used to get together for a long weekend at the coast (Cromer, Norfolk to be precise) every summer for some drinking and relaxing. We used to camp, which meant no fires so we'd head off to the beach so we could make some noise around a big old camp fire. The first night involved some late night swimming followed by drying of the underwear next to the fire. My good friend must have confused 'next to' with 'on the' because thats where he threw mine. Anyway, later on we'd all had plenty to drink and decided to call it a night. Just as we all stood up to gather out blankets and rubbish (yes we're good like that) theres an almighty bang/wooshing noise followed by sudden darkness. After the initial shock we look around to see that half way up the cliff and spread out across the beach in a 40ft radius are thousands of glowing embers from the fire. We assume that someone had chucked an unopened beer can on the fire which then boiled and exploded.
Not one person was injured and it proved a bloody good way to put out a fire. Go on give it a go!
(, Tue 8 Nov 2005, 19:18, Reply)
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