Fire station burns because food was left cooking..

United States
January 30, 2009 12:35am CST
http://www.reuters.com/article/oddlyEnoughNews/idUSTRE50S4DX20090129?feedType=RSS&feedName=oddlyEnoughNews talk about ironic.. they are suppose to save others from fires and a lot of fires are started due to people cooking and here the fire station burns down for the same reason.. i wonder if the fire station had a fire alarm/detector etc to call the fire station.. and if the fire station was the one on fire if it would alert some where else or just do nothing?? got any ironic fire stories?? would this case make you question the affectiveness of the station if you had an emergency??
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@mayka123 (17083)
• India
3 Feb 09
The fire station staff is supposed to teach others safety methods and they end up being careless! This is indeed a case of carelessness. I wonder how long they took to detect the fire!
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• United States
3 Feb 09
yeah the example they give!
@mayka123 (17083)
• India
4 Mar 09
Thanks for the BR.
• United States
31 Jan 09
I used to work as a "Communications Officer" for one of the cities near where I live. I'd been doing 9-1-1 Operating and Police dispatching for a couple of years when I finally trained in Fire dispatching. My very last night of training, my coach decided to take a break, went into the break room and put some pop tarts in the toaster, then he came back in the center to shoot the breeze with me. (It was graveyard and a really boring shift night) The toaster malfunctioned and didn't pop them up and the cupboards caught on fire. Next thing we knew our alarm was going off and I had to dispatch the Fire department to US! Station 1 was in the same building as us (City Hall). We got the fire put out with our extinguishers before they got to us.... but they took great delight in pulling those black pop tarts out of the toaster and made a ceremony out of serving them to my coach. We had to sit the rest of the night and dispatch with our doors open and smoke ejectors running.
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• United States
31 Jan 09
haha that sucks!! lol