Trust your nose!

[rabidsamfan]

Tonight was the third time I managed to catch onto a burning electrical system before the alarms did.

Five firetrucks. Five! And a chief!

Comments

[rubynye.livejournal.com]

I really hope the rest of your week is quiet and sedate and a little boring. This is sufficient excitement for awhile.

[gardnerhill.livejournal.com]

Must be something going on this week -- I heard a pop and smelled melted plastic and smoke on Saturday when I replaced two light switches in my bathroom.

I only got ONE fire engine, though the three guys were very nice looking (I think it's in the regs). They made sure I didn't have any sparks smoldering in the insulation waiting for me to go to sleep, and suggested getting a circuit tester before attempting to re-attach the switches. (So I'll be showering by candlelight for a few days.)

[med_cat]

Goodness gracious! Good for you...not too much damage from the fire, I hope?

O_o

[shirebound]

Was this in your apartment???

[rabidsamfan.livejournal.com]

No, at work, and if it happened on a regular night we wouldn't have known anything about it till we came back in the morning.

[rabidsamfan.livejournal.com]

Just a dead AC unit. Those things are beasts!

[rabidsamfan.livejournal.com]

This is the second time one of our ancient AC units has died with smoke etc. We keep saying they need replacing with something that frickin' works...

[rabidsamfan.livejournal.com]

Oh, yeah...

[ansostuff.livejournal.com]

Go you!

We had fire training at work today and I extinguished all the fires that I had to attempt getting out.

[med_cat]

Ah I see ;)

[clevertoad.livejournal.com]

You must have gotten good 'smell' genes. Lucky for the library!

I'm always the last to smell anything in the room -- not good when you're talking scorching electrical wire, but sometime a benefit in past jobs with a pungent work environment... (Hot cooking oil, anyone?)

[frankymole.livejournal.com]

Woah! Heroism walk with you!

I'm a "floor liaison officer" for fire and bomb (etc) alerts for my building at work, which means a plastic hat and lots of extinguisher-checking and getting disabled people out when ever able-bodied bugger runs for it and leaves us in the lurch (or hiding in the basement if we're being mortar-attacked), but I've never had more than two fire trucks even in a real fire. You did great!

[rabidsamfan.livejournal.com]

I am lucky in that I work in a small building, because the Library never much practices fire drills, except for the big central building downtown.

[rabidsamfan.livejournal.com]

My lungs noticed as much as my nose!