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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Sorry that it's not my storybut it happened to a friend who was a touch daft when it comes to all things automotive. Driving home from Norwich he notices that smoke is coming from under his bonnet. He realised that the engine was on fire so did the sensible thing of accelerating "because that would blow the fire out". Once the smoke had gotten so thick he couldn't see he realises that this isn't doing the trick and pulls into a layby. Opens the bonnet and, of course, the flames shoot up.
This is in the days before mobiles were commonplace so he's lucky that there's a telephone box in the layby. He runs to the box and calls the AA after taking time to find his membership card. "Hello", he says to the operator, "my car's on fire". The operator advises him to call the fire brigade. He hangs up but before calling the brigade goes back to look at the car. The fire's almost out so he calls the AA back, explains that the fire has gone out and asks if they would send a van out to get him.
Turns out he'd left the oil filler cap off after topping up the oil and it'd splashed out over the exhaust manifold. Burnt out all the wiring and radiator plumbing.
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S tr app y, Fri 4 Nov 2005, 12:28,
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