legacycentral bbs

Ok...so this morning, at 5:00 I was awakened to the sound of the smoke detector in my bedroom going off...I kinda thought this was interesting, so I got up and turned on the light. I then see smoke hovering around in my room, and starting to come in from the hallway to my apartment! I opened my door, only to find solid black smoke in the hall, so I figured I wasn't going to be making it out that way. I get back into my bedroom and open the window, and fortunately the door to the apartment under me has a little roof over it, so I was able to get onto it, and then swing onto the stairway landing and onto the street...

Turns out a guy's apartment down the hall had an electrical fire, and a whole wall went up in flames, while he was sleeping...and his smoke detector didn't go off

He got out in time...and his apartment is toast...

My landlord is probably shitting a brick because the building is waaaaaaaaaaay not up to code, and he could be lookin' at some hefty fines!

Anyway...just thought I'd share one of my more interesting experiences I have had in a while

sounds like you had a good sleep

Wow... that's a nice way to wake up. Glad to hear nobody got hurt. Did they get the fire before it started attacking your belongings?

Or...

Any good fire sales as a result?

Whoah . . . yeah, glad to hear no one was hurt from the faulty smoke detector not doing its job!

Sorry to hear that the detectors dont work everywhere in your building. But I am glad that no one got hurt and your stuff wasn't affected.

I had to throw my mom, and her dogs, out the window of her house, when her husband caught the garage on fire blocking the ONE exit of the house..

once i got her and the dogs out I had to bust out one of the windows out of the other end of the house so I could drag her birds (in their cages) out the window and onto the lawn...

then I had to move my car and her car from in front of the garage, because they were both getting fried by the heat of the fire

needless to say, I ended up having to visit the hospital because of severe smoke inhalation that could have killed me.

but the way I think of it, if I hadn't been there, my mom and her animals might not have made it out, since she is in poor health, and there was a burning down building between her and her husband

(btw.. best smoke alarm ever.. my stepfather screaming "CALL THE F$CKING FIRE DEPARTMENT I JUST CAUGHT THE GARAGE ON FIRE" as he is spraying a fire extinguisher at a blaze taller than him that was starting to engulf the wall of the garage)

also, as a side note, I called 911 before stuffing my mom out the window, and it was busy the first time. I had to hang up and call back. WTF!?

fires are bad mmmmkay



<edit> only one exit in the house after stepfather decided the previous summer "I don't want this really cool huge sliding glass door here... I want to board it up instead" and my brother and I said "isn't there some kind of building code preventing such nonsense?"

he didn't get in trouble for it so I guess not. maybe if someone had gotten hurt he would have?

Lawd 'ave mercy. That is some shit right there.

I'm glad you're alright. Hopefully your things did not get smoke damage

screw the smoke damage, it's the WATER damage that causes problems

Tis true.

My stuff is fine...I just have a little bit of cleaning to do...

The hallway...now that is another story