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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Oh dear..Among the many things my brother set fire to during his childhood, including himself, the best has to be when he set fire to my Dads shed when he was about 12!
Why he thought "Under the hedge is a good place for a campfire" is anyones guess, however after only a few minutes, the tinder-dry hedge had caught light and the fire rapidly spread to the side of the shed and smoke and flames were now billowing high into the sky.
He began to panic and decided now would be a good time to find some way to extinguish the inferno. Just at that second, the doorbell rang. So my dearest little brother leaves the bucket he was filling with water and the fire and goes to answer the door. "Hello, did you know your hedge is on fire", exclaimed the neighbour who was now fearful for his own property. "YES!" wailed my brother, who then ran back to the garden just as the sound of fire engine sirens filled the air.
I wish I was there to see the picture when my Dad arrived home from work to see a fire engine outside his home and smoke billowing from the garden and my beshevilled little brother stood there all damp and blackened in his slippers.
My Dad was never the jolliest of people, I am surprised my brother is still with us! =)
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mikenco, Thu 3 Nov 2005, 10:23,
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