OrlandoMike
<font color=red>all I can say is beer hurts when i
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Please Please Please!
Go to Home Depot on your day off and buy a fire extinguisher!
Get the one marked ABC.... That takes care of all three types of fires!
We have had one for 10 years, right next to the washing machine in the garage, and I always shrugged off Shrek when he said "you never know!" He is Mr. "Safety First" in our house.
Well let me tell you what happened today!
I was just getting ready to jump in the shower for work, when someone starts banging on my front door, turning the knob, screaming, ringing the doorbell! (I thought someone was trying to break in) I looked out the window to find my 16 year old neighbor from across the street freaking out!
"I set my house on fire, HELP ME!"
So I grab the phone and called 911, went to the garage and there was our fire extinguisher right where it should be. I ran across the street and walked in the house, and the entire kitchen is in flames! I'm talking to 911 all this time, explaining what is going on, and he tells me "Your not in the house are you? Get out now!"
Ya right! At this point that panic/emercency mode kicked in, and the rest is kind of a fog..... I pulled the pin on the extinguisher and aimed low, and low and behold about 5 minutes later the fire was out! Long story short, I found a neighbor to watch the kid till her parents got home, 3 Sherrifs and 6 Fire Trucks showed up, and I had to jump in the shower for work! Just my luck, 15 hot fireman and I have to leave the scene!
I swear thinking back....I should have laid in the street and pretended to have problems breathing!
So anyway, Please go buy a Fire Extinguisher this week! You never know when you will need it. To save you, or a neighbor!
Go to Home Depot on your day off and buy a fire extinguisher!
Get the one marked ABC.... That takes care of all three types of fires!
We have had one for 10 years, right next to the washing machine in the garage, and I always shrugged off Shrek when he said "you never know!" He is Mr. "Safety First" in our house.
Well let me tell you what happened today!
I was just getting ready to jump in the shower for work, when someone starts banging on my front door, turning the knob, screaming, ringing the doorbell! (I thought someone was trying to break in) I looked out the window to find my 16 year old neighbor from across the street freaking out!
"I set my house on fire, HELP ME!"
So I grab the phone and called 911, went to the garage and there was our fire extinguisher right where it should be. I ran across the street and walked in the house, and the entire kitchen is in flames! I'm talking to 911 all this time, explaining what is going on, and he tells me "Your not in the house are you? Get out now!"
Ya right! At this point that panic/emercency mode kicked in, and the rest is kind of a fog..... I pulled the pin on the extinguisher and aimed low, and low and behold about 5 minutes later the fire was out! Long story short, I found a neighbor to watch the kid till her parents got home, 3 Sherrifs and 6 Fire Trucks showed up, and I had to jump in the shower for work! Just my luck, 15 hot fireman and I have to leave the scene!
I swear thinking back....I should have laid in the street and pretended to have problems breathing!
So anyway, Please go buy a Fire Extinguisher this week! You never know when you will need it. To save you, or a neighbor!
But mostly? Thanks for being the sort of person who cared enough to intervene in what would have been a disaster had you not. 
