Fire!
By Jeanne Marie
@Jeanniemaries (8237)
United States
March 4, 2017 9:49am CST
I was sitting there flipping channels last night and saw a news report about a nearby fire. Too near. All who lived within three miles were asked to evacuate voluntarily. It was windy out and they said it wasn't contained yet. I lived about a mile and a half away so I got in my car and was cruising around in the night looking for flames but didn't see any.
The road nearby was blocked off and the police wouldn't tell me a thing. I went down another street nearer to my house and it too was blocked but this policeman said the fire was contained now and no homes were affected. Just brush. So I came back.
Fifty acres were burned but I later learned the policeman was wrong...it was only 90% contained at the time! I had gone to bed peacefully though.
When I heard the story, my first thought was, If my house goes up, all the cleaning and sorting I've been doing was all for nothing!
Do you have a single item that you would grab if you only had time to take one thing out of your house?
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@Jeanniemaries (8237)
• United States
4 Mar 17
Especially after cleaning closets. I'm still sneezing.
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@Asylum (47893)
• Manchester, England
4 Mar 17
@Jeanniemaries It could be worse, you could have just decorated.
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@Jeanniemaries (8237)
• United States
4 Mar 17
@Asylum True enough, that could be worse.
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@BelleStarr (61047)
• United States
4 Mar 17
No, it would be multiple items for sure. I have a folder with genealogy stuff that would have to come but my computer is first. We already lost our house once to a fire so I am hoping never to live through that again.
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@Jeanniemaries (8237)
• United States
4 Mar 17
I'm sorry about your house. That has to be the worst to lose everything like that.
@shaggin (71678)
• United States
4 Mar 17
@Jeanniemaries fires can be really good for the soil ai have heard. My boyfriend thinks wild fires are a good thing but they scare me.
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@Jeanniemaries (8237)
• United States
4 Mar 17
@shaggin Yes, I've heard that too. All that wood ash is excellent for the soil!
@Jeanniemaries (8237)
• United States
4 Mar 17
Yes, that was a good thing. I'm going to do a drive by later today and see for myself what happened. The good thing is that growth is very fast. I watched a fire burn out an area just off a major road here and in two weeks I had a hard time finding it because it was so green again.
@LadyDuck (460403)
• Switzerland
6 Mar 17
@Jeanniemaries This is something I do automatically every time I get out of our home.
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@Jeanniemaries (8237)
• United States
9 Mar 17
@LadyDuck I only wish my phone and keys were as automatic. I can't tell you how many times I have to go back in for them. Haha!
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@Jeanniemaries (8237)
• United States
6 Mar 17
Oh definitely. I did take my purse. It's so much a part of me, I didn't even count that!
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@Marilynda1225 (80172)
• United States
9 Mar 17
I don't know if I'd have the wherewith-all to grab anything if I had to leave immediately. Do the dogs count?
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@sallypup (58337)
• Centralia, Washington
4 Mar 17
Last year we had a fire scare. Fire barrelling down the hill toward us. Deputy at the door. But luckily we came back the next day to our place being intact. What did I grab?? My computer and the dogs. Tried to get cats. Captured one; one ran off and one hid under the bed. Hubby was mad that I had not grabbed his computer.
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@sallypup (58337)
• Centralia, Washington
4 Mar 17
@Jeanniemaries When our daughter was a toddler, we lived in a backwoods cabin for a couple of years. That cabin burned to the ground so that made us move and be basically homeless for a while. I sure did not itch for a repeat.
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@Jeanniemaries (8237)
• United States
6 Mar 17
@sallypup Oh, that would have been very hard! I can't imagine losing it all.
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@Jeanniemaries (8237)
• United States
4 Mar 17
When you must think fast, you do not always make good judgement. I think you did an excellent job of saving the lives of your pets over a computer. Glad it didn't actually reach your home though.
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@Hate2Iron (15730)
• Canada
4 Mar 17
I wasn't living at home at the time, but when my parents house burned down, Dad rushed in and grabbed the family bible for mom. Good thing that I wasn't home. I wouldn't have let him go back in for anything!
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@Jeanniemaries (8237)
• United States
4 Mar 17
That would have been so tragic if something would have happened when going back in for something. Even a Bible with years of notes is not worth a life.
@Juliaacv (48653)
• Canada
4 Mar 17
I do not think that I would hesitate to grab a single item, I would just leave immediately if my house were on fire.
I have a brother-in-law who had a house fire and he left without so much as a coat on his back-in January!
He told me the saddest thing were the new clothing items that he received for Christmas gifts that he had not yet worn, that he was saving, that he never got to wear. Of course the insurance company replaced those items, but still.
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@Jeanniemaries (8237)
• United States
4 Mar 17
Oh, I can see where that would be quite upsetting, having something you saved, lost for good.
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@Tampa_girl7 (49274)
• United States
9 Mar 17
My photographs would be what I would grab.
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@jillybean1222 (6408)
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6 Mar 17
gosh, i would grab as many of my photo albums as i could... and videotapes.... anything that belonged to my son Nolan
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@Jeanniemaries (8237)
• United States
9 Mar 17
Your arms would be so full! It's hard to think about losing all family photos. I am so glad we can put things online these days.
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@Jeanniemaries (8237)
• United States
9 Mar 17
I keep meaning to drive by and see the aftermath....Maybe today.
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@rowena292 (242)
• Baguio, Philippines
4 Mar 17
Documents must always have a copy fax copy and save it to your email that's better and safety
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