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Post by success19 on Jul 22, 2012 20:55:18 GMT -5
They had a fire in the kitchen on this show while the film crew and other people were in the house. The show is almost over and the house is still filled with stuff. It is a big house too.
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Post by success19 on Jul 22, 2012 20:58:40 GMT -5
Okay they went away for two months and let her clean on her own. And she is doing it too!
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Post by homesteph on Jul 22, 2012 20:59:46 GMT -5
oh dear! I trust everyone got out safe. How scary. I'm watching old episodes on netflix right now, I'll look for this one in a year or two.
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Post by casper on Jul 22, 2012 23:45:32 GMT -5
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Post by LostNjunk on Jul 22, 2012 23:52:22 GMT -5
Thanks for the link Casper. TLC used to not have anything on the computer. I've been wondering where to watch them at. I dont have direct tv anymore but I do have netflix streaming.
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Post by Blackswan on Jul 23, 2012 0:20:16 GMT -5
I was just watching that. It was scary. Luckily the crew was there that day to help her out. I once had a squalor related fire when a bag of laundry was left against the heater. I had luckily not turned the heater on that night like usual or we all may have died. I turned it on in the morning to warm the house, went back to my room and came back to the living room full of black smoke that I could barely see through. My girlfriend was asleep on the couch and I screamed to her that there was a fire. It took a minute to even figure out where the fire was cause the smoke was so black. Anyway we handled it and survived thank god.
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Post by fluffernut - now Jannie on Jul 23, 2012 7:19:54 GMT -5
This reminds me of the kitchen fire I had. My gas stove was really dirty. By that I mean layers of hardened grease just under the burners. I lit it, intending to do some cooking. Suddenly the entre cooktop was covered in flames. I screamed bloody murder, DH came running in. I dialed 911 fire dept. Turning the gas knobs did nothing. I always heard, never put water on a grease fire. DH poured WATER IN A PITCHER AND THREW it on the fire and IT WENT OUT! knew it was really out because suddenly the room was clear of fire and smoke. Just then a fire truck arrived. A fireman (we have all volunteers) came in and took a look around, made sure everything was okay and called off the alarm. I let things settle down overnight. I mean, could you eat after such an unnerving experience? The next morning I looked at the damage, not too bad, anf cleaned up ev erything. Gave that darn stove a thorough scrub with ammonia,first scraping off all the grease with a razor. Got all the gunk out. Several weeks later we got a bill from the fire department for a false alarm. I paid it, thinking how much worse it could have been. Three cats and a dog were all safe, plus my daughter had been upstairs sleeping. Believe me, I've kept that stove clean ever since! And I now have a working fire extinguisher within reach of the kitchen.
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Post by einsteinsdesk on Jul 23, 2012 10:01:03 GMT -5
Hey Fluffernut,
I am just speculating here, but since the grease on your stove was hardened, it behaved differently than if it were liquid. Water on liquid grease can spread the fire, on hardened solidified grease, not so much. Glad you were safe!
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Post by Blackswan on Jul 23, 2012 15:45:29 GMT -5
how the heck was that a false alarm???? You had a fire! I would have contested that bill, definitely. Just because you were able to put it out on your own before they got there doesn't mean that you did exactly what you were supposed to do by calling them. We are supposed to call first, to get them there as fast as possible, that is the proper protocol. Otherwise you could have wasted valuable time trying to put that fire out while it spread. I understand for smaller fires, but a cooktop engulfed in flames does not fit my definition of a small fire. I would have done the same thing that you did.
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Post by ClutterBlind on Jul 23, 2012 16:31:47 GMT -5
I was just watching that. It was scary. Luckily the crew was there that day to help her out. I once had a squalor related fire when a bag of laundry was left against the heater. I had luckily not turned the heater on that night like usual or we all may have died. I turned it on in the morning to warm the house, went back to my room and came back to the living room full of black smoke that I could barely see through. My girlfriend was asleep on the couch and I screamed to her that there was a fire. It took a minute to even figure out where the fire was cause the smoke was so black. Anyway we handled it and survived thank god. I had a squalor related fire too. It was on Christmas. I had a candle burning in the living room table. There was so much stuff piled on the table, including a pile of papers. I was walking by the table and stirred up enough of a breeze that the edge of the papers flew right into the candle. It was several scary moments before I was able to put out the fire. All I could think of was how much stuff was on the table that could ignite. I was also living in a rented half a home with carpeting. So I imagined once the table caught fire, it would spread to the carpet and then everything else. I remember thinking at the time of the neighbors in the other half of the house, not only about getting them out, but how I'd be burning down their home on Christmas, of all days.  |
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Post by Layla on Jul 24, 2012 11:03:34 GMT -5
Thanks for posting, I got to watch all 3 episodes they have up now. The woman with the fire, her house came out beautiful in the end! Wow a roomy big house she has, looked so small when it was full of stuff. On a note about fires. My grandmother was a hoarder, I never knew her, but have heard the stories, 2 story house packed to the cieling, my mom said it was just a pathway, she also kept oodles of paper, newspapers, wouldnt throw anything away. She ended up in a fire from her stove and it caught onto her nightgown, the flames rose up to her head, she lived alone and grabbed a bucket and poured it over her head. My mom said they had just installed a phone for her recently(this was in the 60s) She was a loner so thankfully the phone was there and she called a relative, they had said her glasses were melted on her face, she was hospitalized for mos and eventually died in hospital (burns and other issues then got pneumonia) It didnt catch the whole place on fire, but it very easily could have. My husband and I both have severe hoarder stories on both sides of our family. |
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Post by phoebepj on Jul 27, 2012 1:56:03 GMT -5
Not a hoarding story, though it was near the beginning of my recovery from squalor - I still struggle with it, and still experience ghost squalor, the fuse blew in my old fashioned fuse box. Its that box that has the twisty glass fuse knobs and is known for making a small spark when the fuse hits the metal in the box. I had just replaced a fuse that had blown and had experience that small spark, when a bigger POP happened behind me... I assumed that the lamp light bulb had gone out and went over to click the lamp to be sure it was that. When i twisted the lamp switch by the bulb, it popped again and this time burst into flames, lamp plugged into the wall and all. I grabbed the lamp by the base and yanked the cord out of the wall socket and ran to my kitchen sink (which luckily had JUST been cleared of any "sink pudding") and doused the lamp risking electric shock to me. It set off my smoke alarms and i had to open up the windows to get rid of the nasty burned lamp smell.....
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Post by Di on Jul 27, 2012 8:44:49 GMT -5
I have a glass top stove and I have occasionally forgotten and placed a plastic bowl on there during food preparation, and recently I accidentally placed it on a hot eye and melted it. That was a wake up call for me. THE STOVE TOP IS NOT FOR FOOD PREP it is for COOKING ONLY!!! The only time I have had a "fire" in the kitchen was my first Thanksgiving after I got married, I invited the entire family. I put the turkey in a shallow pan and the juices ran over. I was going to just deal with it later, but my my ex said, "that's what the self cleaning oven is for" and flipped on the cleaner... of course the spilled juices caught on fire, and smoke billowed out of the oven. My brother got the brilliant idea of tying the central vac hose to the oven door to pull out the smoke, so it billowed out of the storage room instead of the into the house. The neighbors called the FD.... Luckily I had enough desserts to invite them all in.... It was an experience never to be forgotten. Doesn't everyone invite the FD to Thanksgiving dessert?
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Post by rubyred on Aug 10, 2012 21:05:18 GMT -5
When I was a kid, we had at least two squalor-related fires. One was a stovetop grease fire that my dad extinguished by pouring salt on it from a Morton's container.
The other one was far more dangerous. We had a gas heater in the living room and in the dead of winter, it would be turned up all the way and flames would actually come out of it. (Where I lived, it got below zero during the daytime hours! No choice on the heater.) Loose papers and trash around the heater caught fire. When Dad worked the night shift, he would worry himself to death and tell us kids to make sure nothing was around that heater (he didn't trust my mom to do it.)
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