Yo, my apartment almost got on fire.
 

I'm here to tell you what happened because my roommate and I was very FRICKKIN' lucky.

I was asleep until 4 o'clock in the morning when the fire alarms with the strobes on it are blaring and flashing. I woke up and smell the smoke. I ran to my door and opened it up to see the smoke coming up from downstairs. I managed to woke my roommate up and ran down to the stairs to find out what the hell is going on. The smoke was thickening and it came from the kitchen. I ran to see the chaos and saw the stove was literally on fire. Apparently, the stove was left on and caused the slow burn on the wood cutting board and the cooking glove. I started to open the windows and then I grabbed the big cluck of wood on fire, which it used to be a wood cutting board. I threw it outside, went back inside to stop the fire, and sprayed water to stop the fire. The fire was out and I called the fire department to come over for checking out if everything is fine and safe.

Meanwhile the firemen came and looked around, My roommate admitted to me that he forgot to turn off the stove after he finished cooking and went to bed. :damn::damn::damn:


Keep it in mind, that we are both deaf and very, very, very lucky to be here. If it wasn't for the fire alarm strobes installed in the apartment, we will be screwed. :o

Here's the pictures of the aftermath:
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This is what left for a wooden cutting board, an oven glove, and some glassware melted.
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Firefighters.
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The damages.

This is going to bite us in our asses... :nope:

That's a very nice kitchen you have there....



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Come to think of it...you are luckier than you think...that's an electric cooker isn't it?

Wow, really glad you're alright mate, and your friend!:yep: hopefully the cleanup bill wont be too bad, what an annoyance for Christmas!:oops:

Yikes, so glad you are both okay and no one was hurt. :o

I know about the kitchen, it tends to be messy.

And yes, It is a electric stove/oven.

Was the power still on to it when you sprayed it with water?

Might be an idea to invest in a foam extinguisher or fire blanket.

Glad you're safe though, looks a close call.

Glad you all ended up unhurt. Had an incident with my room mate last year with a burnt oven mitt and it both scared us both to hell and back.

Out of curiosity do your fire alarm system include vibrating elements? I mean those designed to wake up sleeping person.

One of our cats once nearly managed to kills us like that
we have a electric stove with a touch panel on top
normally it's locked (by holding your finger over one of the touch buttons for like 3 - 4 sec)

however sometimes it's forgotten and there was a stew on of the pits (the ones that is selected by default when the stove is turned on) not only did the cat manage to turn it on during the night with one of its paws it also managed to turn that stove pit on the max :o
next morning the stew was black as coal, the pan was glowing red, a mist in the living room and the stench was horrific for the next few days.

anyway glad you're okay and not turned into a fried potato :shucks:

HunterICX

Glad your not my fire safety officer.....Co2 or dry powder for electrical appliances :DL

Pleased your okay SgtPotato.....smoke alarms are real cheap and effective life savers :sunny:

Glad everything turned out okay for you. A stove and cutting board can be replaced. You can't!

Do you have renter's insurance? It may be a good thing to think about. It's dirt cheap (Mine's around $15 a month) and it gives you peace of mind in the event things had turned out worse.

Says the man who's just told Jamie to set the fire alarm off to annoy people! :yeah:


Glad you're still around Potato, hopefully this is the warning shot across your bows you guys (and the rest of us too) need to check everything before going to bed.


(now for the humour)

Good job you got woken when you did, otherwise your electricity bill would've been massive! ;)

Glad to hear you're okay!
On a side note, it looks like somebody needs to take cooking lessons.:D

One time my ex was cooking something, and it got burned. Of course, the smoke followed the airflow, into the hallway of the apartment building... where it set off the building smoke alarm.:dead::dead::dead::haha:

That was not a fun conversation with the fire dept.:shifty: The building though had really sensitive smoke detectors, so it didn't take much to set them off.

http://qpawn.beardedfool.com/forum/i...s/facepalm.gif And me the grandson of a fireman. :nope: Thanks Jim, that's a bit more sound advice than a foam extinguisher.

That's chemical fires isn't it?

The beer bottle next to the stove may explain why he forgot to turn stove off.:haha:

Glad you're OK. Many years ago with my former wife our entire apt building burnt down with all our mere belongings....wasn't our fault, but no renters insurance.

I would use foam in cases where there is large amount of burning liquid like gasoline, kerosene etc. which water would just spread around or extinguish ineffectively. Such situations like aircraft accidents or car crashes are good examples.

Can't say any blanket response to chemical fires.

Ive always been paranoid about the stove always double checking it before I hit the sack, long time ago during my 20's a night of on the booze we all got hungry so decided to cook up a roast beef, all drunk we fell alseep woke up the next morning and the roast was a burnt piece of black meat, oven still on very lucky we didn't burn the house down. What saved the night from us being burnt to ashes was I had put the oven on slow cook if I had turn it on high we probably would of been dead. I learn't to never drink and cook, cook up a feed before you drink. Ive had a fixation of checking the stove before bed ever since. lol

@OP, at least your all alive could of been worse.

I got 2 cans of Tundra in my kitchen. It is a fire extinguisher spray about the size of a standard aerosol can. It is rated for all fire types. Packs a big punch for it's small size.

Just a suggestion. Rather than a full size fire extinguisher. 12 bucks a can is a bargain for piece of mind, and no embarrassing Fire department calls.:)

Can you provide link where would be more info?

Glad you weren't injured.:DL