Chriselle 158 Posted January 22, 2014 Share Posted January 22, 2014 Just passing on a friendly reminder that stuff catches on fire really easily this time of year. A good friend of ours (here in Ito) house just burnt to the ground about an hour ago. Link to post Share on other sites
snowdude 44 Posted January 22, 2014 Share Posted January 22, 2014 Yikes that sucks. Hope your friend got out ok. Link to post Share on other sites
Chriselle 158 Posted January 22, 2014 Author Share Posted January 22, 2014 Yes..everyone is OK. The wife was taken to hospital for minor smoke inhalation but she's fine. They are just in shock as to how fast the place went up and thankful it wasn't while they were sleeping. Link to post Share on other sites
Tubby Beaver 209 Posted January 22, 2014 Share Posted January 22, 2014 thats the danger with these paper/wooden houses over here......TBF even brick n mortar houses back home go up quick, but I imagine the flimsy, flammable material they use here would make it even more of a hazard. Glad everyone is out safe n sound Link to post Share on other sites
Chriselle 158 Posted January 22, 2014 Author Share Posted January 22, 2014 Yes...and their house was especially flimsy, wooden and old. Honestly, it should have been torn down and rebuilt many years ago but like most houses around here....they are handed down from generation to generation so it's hard to just tear it all down. Link to post Share on other sites
Thundercat 60 Posted January 22, 2014 Share Posted January 22, 2014 Wow. That sucks. I guess they must have lost everything inside. Link to post Share on other sites
grungy-gonads 54 Posted January 22, 2014 Share Posted January 22, 2014 That's not good. Link to post Share on other sites
pie-eater 207 Posted January 23, 2014 Share Posted January 23, 2014 Hope they were insured. Very sad, must be devastated. Do they know how it started? Link to post Share on other sites
Chriselle 158 Posted January 23, 2014 Author Share Posted January 23, 2014 Wow. That sucks. I guess they must have lost everything inside. Ya...all that was left was some of the frame and the foundation. It was weird....It was an all alarm fire which means all the local stations are called as well as the reserve trucks. There is a station right in front of our house so the alarms and sirens were wailing and you could hear all the other stations sirens going off.... I thought, whoa....That's gotta be a big fire....I hope it's no one we know. Ironically, the owner of the house is a reserve firefighter..... I don't know any of the details and my wife wasn't about to go asking last night while the place was still smoldering...... I'm sure she will hear something today. I was busy last night changing all the batteries in our smoke detectors.... Link to post Share on other sites
muikabochi 208 Posted January 24, 2014 Share Posted January 24, 2014 Yeah we got some of those in recently. Link to post Share on other sites
Chriselle 158 Posted January 24, 2014 Author Share Posted January 24, 2014 It ended up being a runaway oil fire while making tempura. Link to post Share on other sites
klingon 10 Posted January 24, 2014 Share Posted January 24, 2014 I wonder who chose tempura for dinner! Just think how that one tiny insignificant thing has changed their life. Link to post Share on other sites
Chriselle 158 Posted January 24, 2014 Author Share Posted January 24, 2014 I was going through that kitchen fire scenario with my wife.....judging by her way of dealing with it... I'm sure our house would burn down, too. Eeeek!! Link to post Share on other sites
JA2340 16 Posted January 26, 2014 Share Posted January 26, 2014 Not at all pleasant, to have a fire in the oil! Lucky (or at least happy!) that both are well. Needing some insurance to rebuild! Link to post Share on other sites
snowdude 44 Posted January 26, 2014 Share Posted January 26, 2014 I know it is easier said than done, but if you get an oil fire while cooking try not to panic SWITCH OFF the gas or electric cooker instantly (many people panic forget to switch of the cooker providing more fuel for the fire) and get a large bath towel, soak it so its dripping wet and place over the fire before it gets out of hand, that will put it out instantly as long as it is not big and taking hold of the house. It happened to me some years ago, the pan caught on fire, I just got a large towel soaked it put it over the pan and that was the end of the fire. Link to post Share on other sites
Chriselle 158 Posted January 26, 2014 Author Share Posted January 26, 2014 Further details..... apparently, the wife was distracted and left the kitchen with the burner still on. The fire started and by the time she got back it had spread and was out of her control. Link to post Share on other sites
Alexander L 80 Posted January 26, 2014 Share Posted January 26, 2014 Wow Hope they get their shit together and have a good insurance payback. Link to post Share on other sites
Tachypsychia 13 Posted January 29, 2014 Share Posted January 29, 2014 Bumping this one... Waxed a friends pair of skis and my snowboard last night before going to snowboard today. For some unknown reason.. I put my plastic scraper on the top grill of my kitchen space heater. This morning, the wife turned it on and didn't see the scraper there. 10 minutes later, I'm drowsily waking up and she slides the door to a roaring fire and kitchen full of smoke. Talk about a wake up call. I jumped up and pushed her out of the way because she was fanning the flames with her hand... They were a good foot and a half high. I turned off the heater itself then filled up the frying pan ( clean, no oil on it) with water from the faucet and put it out. Didn't burn long enough to do damage to anything. Just melted the plastic all over the heater so I need to scrape it off (ironic. Scraping the scraper off) before we can use it again. I breathed in a lot of smoke before I opened the door and got most of the smoke out. Could have been a lot worse. We're both going to have to pay more attention to the area around the heater. 気をつけてください！ I went to a mountain 2 hours away and was digging out soot boogers the whole way. Felt like a coal miner. Link to post Share on other sites
Alexander L 80 Posted January 29, 2014 Share Posted January 29, 2014 close Link to post Share on other sites
Nisoko 6 Posted January 29, 2014 Share Posted January 29, 2014 And I came in here thinking that it was about Hakuba....! Link to post Share on other sites
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Tachypsychia 13 Posted January 30, 2014 Share Posted January 30, 2014 The tarp. It was the damned tarp I use to collect the wax. I found the scraper and all my other gear in the tacklebox already. I don't know how she missed a huge tarp on the heater. You have to reach down and put it at eye level to even turn it on. But I still don't know why I laid it there. UGH. Link to post Share on other sites
Chriselle 158 Posted January 30, 2014 Author Share Posted January 30, 2014 And I came in here thinking that it was about Hakuba....! Yes...well played... Link to post Share on other sites
Chriselle 158 Posted January 30, 2014 Author Share Posted January 30, 2014 The tarp. It was the damned tarp I use to collect the wax. I found the scraper and all my other gear in the tacklebox already. I don't know how she missed a huge tarp on the heater. You have to reach down and put it at eye level to even turn it on. But I still don't know why I laid it there. UGH. Lucky. I'm always worried about the winter months down in my work shop with lots of saw dust, electrical sockets and volatile finishes. I also have to be very careful with some of my pen making materials...like celluloid which is highly flammable.. Link to post Share on other sites
brit-gob 9 Posted February 1, 2014 Share Posted February 1, 2014 Close. Glad you could take the pics you did! Link to post Share on other sites
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