House Fire

At about 8pm tonight I was on LPF browsing the forums and my daughter came up to me and said "look out the window it looks like someone is shining a yellow laser pointer" because all you can see is yellow flashing faintly in the sky. I got up and looked and the house behind mine was totally engolfed in flames and firefighters were quickly on scene. I just wanted to share that that was the scariest thing I have ever encountered here at home. My neighbor said "you didn't burn that with your laser did you?" I said "I'm not stupid" everybody did get out fine but they can't find their dog... I hope he got out!

Link is here
Newport News firefighters battle 2 story house fire | WVEC.com Norfolk - Hampton Roads

House fires, the very idea of them keeps me awake sometimes (a lot of things keep me awake).

So, so many ways for a fire to start, and it can spread incredibly fast.

Hope they find their dog safe and sound.

You and your countless sleep problems IE ^

Glad they made it out okay, and I hope the dog made it out too, I'd be devastated if that happened to my dog...

I'd like to say it's a shame the laser enthusiasts are always the first to blame for a fire
always happens when my friends hear about a fire...

Update : dog was found roaming 1 street over

A few years back id stayed overnight with a girlfriend at her house with her and a few other people. I ended up sleeping on the floor in a sleeping bag because she was a kicker. I woke up around 6 in the morning to someone banging and yelling at the front door, so naturally I got up swung open the door to some big grey hair fellow, it was about this time I came to and the smell hit me, without saying a word I did a 180 and saw the light coming from the kitchen and left dude standing there to investigate. Once I saw the flames going from the stove to the cabinets and spreading rapidly I realized I was screaming fire and banging on doors. By the time I had woken everyone up and got her roomates 3 cats out the place was really filling up with the foul, acrid black smoke and the fire department was dragging me and the roomates boyfriend outside while simultaneously pointing out our stupidity for not getting out immediately. Anyways long story short, the guy banging on the door saved our lives and I never saw him again, also sleeping on the floor helped because I had clean air to breathe and if a few more minutes had passed id have still been ok I guess. Oh yeah, some dumb a$$ left a big soup pot empty on the stove with the burner on and that's how The fire started. No ones 'fessed up yet.

Dang, your lucky bro! Fire and smoke can move quick

It does, especially indoors. I had soot on my face and hands and the smell was awful. The whole kitchen burned but pretty much everything else was ruined by heat and smoke. I agree with IE it can keep you up at night.

Edit: just read the report in the link, the fire was started by unattended cooking. Go figure.

My other neighbor was in his backyard and he heard a small boom sound and the kitchen window shattered and a rolling flame came out... Makes you wonder, I hope they were not cooking meth because that's what happens when you make a mistake it blows up your kitchen and then your house is on fire. Not that I cook it, I watch the news!

Haha, they're your neighbors dude, I would want to know if unexpected meth lab explosions are going to be an everyday thing or not.

lol Oh I'm sure it will come out in the news, it was prob someone that left the oven on

If it was a meth "lab" explosion, it would be immediately apparent to the firefighters.

Glad they found the dog Even though it sucks utterly, everything except for people and pets can be replaced.

This was in my neighborhood. An idiot flicked his cigarette into the bark mulch of his planter and burned his, as well as his next-door neighbor's house to the ground.

^^^ ill have to find the link because it was a few years ago but my stepdad and I started one of southwest Floridas largest brush fires when his tree grinder caught fire and the onboard sprinklers failed. Needless to say the jobsite was surrounded by acres of dead trees.

SixTee9 said:

My other neighbor was in his backyard and he heard a small boom sound and the kitchen window shattered and a rolling flame came out... Makes you wonder, I hope they were not cooking meth because that's what happens when you make a mistake it blows up your kitchen and then your house is on fire. Not that I cook it, I watch the news!

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They could have been making hash oil...i hear kids blowing up their houses all the time. all it takes is 1 spark.

Http://nbc-2.com/story/10680906/brush-fires-burning-in-lee-collier-counties?clienttype=printable

Here's the link to the brush fire my old man started, it doesn't say much except that 350 acres burned and the cause was still under investigation. A large tree was caught in the grinder and burst into flames, there's usually some smoke and dust when your mulching up giant pine trees so by the time the guy running it realized there was a fire it was too late. We moved the loaders and the trucks by a lake and filled our loaders buckets with water and started soaking the immediate area until the fire department and the division of forestry made us leave. The fire was huge and spread to the mulch and piles of dead trees before we knew it 350 acres was ablaze.

Cigs then bad cooking practices cause most house fires- only someone that's brain dead would smoke in bed.( or on the couch)
~50 house fires are started every year on Thanksgiving day in USA- you are supposed to deep fry the turkey not your house- Texas leads the list on that BTW. duh?

I can be too much oil in the pot or the most stoopid- trying to drop a frozen turkey in hot oil--DUH!!