Fire!

I tend to be a magnet for fire. Just ask any of the counselors i had for yw AND YM growing up.

Once again there was no exception. This time, however i can proudly say "It wasn't me"! I got home from a singing group for kids Abby's age (music makers) and decided to hoe my front yard. i know you're thinking hoe? really? your front yard is only rocks.... none the less we've had a lot of rain and it needed to be weeded/hoed. It turns out that it was a prompting I'm glad i followed.

I started to hoe and all of the sudden i saw smoke on the side of our house. I ran into my house to see where it was coming from and then had a slight very small chuckle (as I was thinking there's no way i started this fire, because i haven't done dishes in weeks. and because i haven't done dishes in weeks, there's no way i could be cooking because i don't have anything to cook with it's all in the sink dirty!). then RAN outside and started pounding on my neighbor's door.

She's a small 60 year old women who often is by herself. It took her a while to hear me, then i heard her turn off the vacuum... and 2 minutes later she came to the door. She had no idea there was a fire in her house until she heard me pounding on the door, looked up and realized there was smoke everywhere!! She had gotten out her fire extinguisher, blown out the fire and then quickly got the door. I came in side to help and realized she still had the stove on that had started the fire and hadn't moved anything around... so i stuck my hand over the hot stove that had melting plastic dripping on it, turned off the stove, moved the things by it and then started to open the windows of her house for her. She had completely melted out her microwave that was above the stove. Her cupboards were seconds away from being up in flames and her house was covered top to bottom in soot. And her alarms were going off like crazy.

She forgot she had put something on the stove for lunch and it started the fire. And she couldn't smell the fire or hear the alarms because she had the tv blasting, and she was vacuuming.... The fire department never came, but we didn't really need them.

It burned my lungs and nose to be in the house for too long from the plastic burning. I insisted that she come to my house to call the insurance and her husband and such. She did, and had to be out of her house for two and a half weeks! They had to replace her stove, microwave, fridge and cupboards. clean out the air ducts and other vents and such in her house and repaint the whole main floor, plus clean the carpet (they might have had to replace it, i can't remember).

Fortuntly, her house didn't burn down! and for the fist time, i didn't start the fire, but i did finish it!