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Retired Fire Chief Burns Down House

General Discussion
#1

Well, not really…

But last night I put some oil on a back burner to make fries…had to make an emergency trip to the head…and came back to a fireball on the stovetop, thick black smoke filled the top of the room, all I could do was get low and think, “Where the FARK is the Fire extiguisher?” Haven’t seen it since we moved, and still can’t find it… “Baking Soda??? Do we have any?” Frack…No…Old kettle…no handle and no lid that fit…Dialed 911…explained the problem…humiliating as hell…and I just knew they’d come in with those nasty purple K extinguishers and get nasty everywhere…

AHA! A cake pan! (the wife’s newest bestest most favorite one) on it goes…flames get smothered and I start ventilating the house as an engine company rolls up…

It looked like two weeks of painting the kitchen was shot to hell…however after cleaning things up this morning, the black stuff washed off the cabinets which had their glossy final coat on them…he walls were just primered and hadn’t gotten the color yet, so they washed down well…and I was gonna start on the ceiling next week anyways…cause with fresh white cabinets and warm yellow walls…the ceiling was positively dingy! All’s well that ends well and after a couple hours scrubbing…I’m back to where I started…now to get to Wal Mart and get a new cake pan before SHE NOTICES!!

#2

I have a vision of the FD rolling up, seeing whose house it is, and getting out the weenies to roast…

#3

or havin them rolling around on the ground laughing their asses off…:wink:

#4

Maybe for fathers day the better half will get him a Fry Daddy so he can do his cooking and not worry about fire. :slight_smile:
MAke sure you get her the good cake pan.

#5

How were the fries??? lol How bad are the lumps on your head from your wife???

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#6

…or you could have just driven to McDonalds.

#7

Somehow I get the feeling Bart’s fries are 10 times better than Ronald’s, even with the extra smoke :smiley:

Darn good thing it didn’t take you 10 minutes longer in the head or you might be building a new house instead of painting the old one.

Jon

#8

I’m glad both you and your home came out of it ok.

Back in the late 70’s, my brother and I were eating at a little bar & grill in Dulzura, a small back-country community. A brush fire broke out across the highway and we joined the locals trying to control it, moving tanks of flammable material from a shed, etc. The wind caught it and it flared up into a major wildfire that took a couple weeks to put out. We found out later that the fire was started by sparks from an illegal trash fire in a rusty incinerator – owned and operated by the chief of the volunteer fire department.

#9

Since when are there Polar Bears in the Antartic…or Penguins in the Artic…?

#10

Fred, they have polar bears in San Diego and Penguins…:wink:

#11
Fred Mills said:
Since when are there Polar Bears in the Antartic........or Penguins in the Artic......?
Global warming and all. Ice flows drifting north and south with various fauna aboard. :) :)
#12

well i put the polar bears and the penguins together cause i wanted to!!! so there!

#13

It’s his railroad, after all.

#14

According to the CocaCola commercials, polar bears and penguins DO live in the same place. If it’s on TV it must be true, right? :wink:

Great pic, regardless of the geographical inaccuracy.

#15

Not all penguins live in Antarctica. There’s one that lives at 996 Melba Lane in Bloom County…:stuck_out_tongue:

#16

Bart, just be glad Clean Freak wasn’t on duty that night–you’d NEVER hear the end of it!

Later,

K

#17

HAhahahah Luckily Kevin…I don’t live in the same jurisdiction I used to work for!