I’ve done that a few times over the years. Kitchen fires are not usually intentional (kitchen fires sometimes happen in restaurants when the owners want to collect insurance money).
We had a toaster oven that was mounted under the cabinets. It caught fire while Laurie was toasting tortillas and started burning the cabinets. Laurie pulled it out of its mounting bracket, threw it on the floor, and stomped that sucker flat putting out the fire. I straightened the flatted toaster back to roughly its prior shape and made other necessary repairs to get it working again. We used it for another two years before it finally gave up the ghost.
Brilliant. Love it. Well the prob here was I put the wrong pot on and the kitchen is not on the ground floor. So when i smelled the burning and the smoke…the cooker is also what you’ve called these folks that fire to things.. it is useles as well.. anyway, my first thought was to shut the kitchen door before the alarm went and the Mr went titz. But then the prob of being upstairs came into play . In our last house my older set the chip pan one night, i jsut opened the door and turfed it one into the snow. Anyway I walked up and down with this burning pot thinking how if I turfed it out the big wondow it might set the loggia ablaze. the other window is small and I’d have had to climb on the sink and also be sure of tipping onto the path and not the neighbour’s bushes. I didn’t wnat to put it in the skin or on a unit cos it would wreck them and then I couldn’t take it down the stairs cos there’s 3 flights and a low ceiling in the room just as you come in the door and also on one of the landings. Bear in mind the flames have now reached the roof which is high and then the alarm went off. We did mange to smother it eventually by which time the cupboards had also caught. What a mess.
Intentional fires good, unintentional or worse deliberate fires bad. Apparently there were some fires raging in north Texas, luckily no impacts where we were. Since they shut the sugar cane factory down in the RGV, there hasn’t been any cut cane burnings on this visit. We used to search for those massive black plumes as they brought all the local raptors together for a barbecue.
Birds going to a barbecue. Hadn’t seen that out here. Not much open burning allowed out here either. I remember driving in the countryside in Spain and being overwhelmed with smoke form agricultural burning. Thanks, Brian.
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When did you have a bosque fire, Tim?
This was a few years ago. Started by arson. Thanks, Lavinia.
Sorry to hear that. Hope they caught the arsonist.
They didn’t that I know of.
I think I remember you saying something re fires being started deliberately.
Yes. Pyromaniacs suck. Thanks, Shey.
Indeed they do. And then of course it is always something else’s fault….
Mind you TImothy… I did set our kitchen on fire a few months ago…..
I’ve done that a few times over the years. Kitchen fires are not usually intentional (kitchen fires sometimes happen in restaurants when the owners want to collect insurance money).
We had a toaster oven that was mounted under the cabinets. It caught fire while Laurie was toasting tortillas and started burning the cabinets. Laurie pulled it out of its mounting bracket, threw it on the floor, and stomped that sucker flat putting out the fire. I straightened the flatted toaster back to roughly its prior shape and made other necessary repairs to get it working again. We used it for another two years before it finally gave up the ghost.
Brilliant. Love it. Well the prob here was I put the wrong pot on and the kitchen is not on the ground floor. So when i smelled the burning and the smoke…the cooker is also what you’ve called these folks that fire to things.. it is useles as well.. anyway, my first thought was to shut the kitchen door before the alarm went and the Mr went titz. But then the prob of being upstairs came into play . In our last house my older set the chip pan one night, i jsut opened the door and turfed it one into the snow. Anyway I walked up and down with this burning pot thinking how if I turfed it out the big wondow it might set the loggia ablaze. the other window is small and I’d have had to climb on the sink and also be sure of tipping onto the path and not the neighbour’s bushes. I didn’t wnat to put it in the skin or on a unit cos it would wreck them and then I couldn’t take it down the stairs cos there’s 3 flights and a low ceiling in the room just as you come in the door and also on one of the landings. Bear in mind the flames have now reached the roof which is high and then the alarm went off. We did mange to smother it eventually by which time the cupboards had also caught. What a mess.
Sounds like and awful mess to be in. I’m happy you survived.
I have my moments…..
Like they were born total retards.
Do I see signs of new life?
A few. Thanks, Marina.
Yikes!
Arson? Uch… why?
xo
Why is a good question, and hard to answer.
Understood! Sad.
This image reminds me of Georgia O’Keefe.
Thanks, Liz.
You’re welcome, Tim.
I hate fires. Pretty picture though.
All of our green grass here in AZ is going to become a fire hazard when it dries out.
Intentional fires good, unintentional or worse deliberate fires bad. Apparently there were some fires raging in north Texas, luckily no impacts where we were. Since they shut the sugar cane factory down in the RGV, there hasn’t been any cut cane burnings on this visit. We used to search for those massive black plumes as they brought all the local raptors together for a barbecue.
Birds going to a barbecue. Hadn’t seen that out here. Not much open burning allowed out here either. I remember driving in the countryside in Spain and being overwhelmed with smoke form agricultural burning. Thanks, Brian.