Crap, It’s a Boring Day Toda- HOLY FUCK MY NEIGHBOR’S HOUSE IS ON FIRE!
14 Apr
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So I spent last Saturday waking up at 3pm, going online, exchanging nonsensical banter with Sorsi (I mean 30 minutes wasted on ranting about Jollibee, of all things. WTF), talking to Juice,and generally being boring and shit. C’mon, I just spent my Friday and Saturday at home. Online. When nobody else is. So as I closed my laptop I sat back and wished for something exciting to happen today. Something. Anything.
Remember what they say about being careful of what you wish for?
Because the next thing I knew, my sister was running around in a panic screaming “GUYS THE NEIGHBOR’S HOUSE IS ON FIRE! FIRE! FIRE I TELLS YA!” Of course, being the idiot I am, instead of grabbing the nearest stuff to save, I watched her run around the room while I scratched my head, genuinely wondering what the hulabaloo is all about. After five minutes of watching her panic, I just had to ask her “When you say fire, you mean the take-down-your-entire-house-and-cause-massive-damage-to-life-and-property type fire?” which promptly earned me a slap on the forehead. You see, I failed to notice the fact that the fire is visible from the window behind my sister.
So I (slowly) went to check how bad the fire is. I also noticed that there was a tree between our neighbor’s house and our house, and that the branches of the tree were resting on our house’s roof. And of course, sparks were flying from the burning house to the tree. Then it (slowly, very slowly) dawned on me that somehow, there was a chance of the tree catching fire and maybe, just maybe, burning our (mostly-wood) house to the ground as well.
I know it doesn’t look scary here, but trust me it was big.
Which started my mad dash to gather up all my stuff to save, which as we all know, if you’re in a panic, you never get to gather up your things logically. In my case, I managed to salvage:
- Toothpaste (not one toothbrush was salvaged)
- Old clothes that I haven’t worn for five years and probably won’t fit me, while the clothes I always wear were neatly stacked next to them and it never occured to me to get those clothes
- A lightbulb
- A shoe. Yes, singular. I can’t find the other one.
- My laptop’s cooling pad. I left my laptop at home.
- My desktop’s keyboard. I left my desktop at home (yeah, yeah, you get it)
- A woolen coat. I probably need the wool for this hot humid summer weather or something.
So we load all these into our van and my dad drives the van two blocks away. I stay at home, waiting for progress and for the news vans to arrive so I can fulfill my lifelong destiny to be on national television by smiling stupidly and waving at the camera while some newscaster talks about the fire, my house gutted with flames in the background for dramatic effect.
And then fire trucks came from nowhere.
I, for one, did not pass up the opportunity to have my picture taken with these very busy men and badgering them every five minutes or so to ask if they have internet access at home because I want them to read my blog.
Yeah, I took lots of pictures while everyone else was panicking and shit.
Big help that night, I was.
An hour later, the fire was under control, and we were able to sit and relax knowing that even though the neighbor’s house was still burning, our home was safe. After another hour, I could see the firemen giving each other high fives and wrapping up.
Wrapping up.
So thanks to these awesome firemen who were able to take care of the fire quickly, our house was barely touched by the fire, and we managed to haul our stuff back in. Which was a lot harder than hauling stuff out when you’re pumped with adrenalin and shit.
Also, not one news van came by. Feh.
So what about you guys? Have you been in a close call as well? Tell me about it!
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Not really a close call, but the smell of burning insulation of copper wire at 2AM last month. I was sniffing like an anteater, trying to locate the source. Even my dad woke up due to the smell. We looked outside and inside but we failed to find the source.
Another one when my maternal aunt (who lives a block away) woke us at 2AM (what’s with the ungodly hour) to tell us that the wire from the Meralco post going to our electric meter was on fire. Well, she said someone saw it on fire. When we looked, it was not. We thought it was a joke, but later we had it checked. It was indeed burned. Meralco replace the wire.
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My neighbor fell down while riding a motorcycle. Just this morning! Yeah, your neighborhood is more exciting.
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Me! I had a close call too! This morning, I put too much shampoo on my hair. And I was like: “Got-damn, that’s a lot of shampoo!” So I doused my head with a little bit of water (very firemanily, if I may add) to neutralize it. And I was back to my shampooing ways. Whew! I’m an ass!
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Our neighbor was on fire. He was not wearing any pants as he ran around outside. Hilarious indeed!
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I also have a scoop bout our taiwanese neighbors’ house getting burned! Haha, I was a night when I was hearing this weird noise of running water. I peeked from the window and saw that a fire hose is attached to a hydrant just across our house. :P It was too late when we got to the site :P. http://www.noneed4ink.com/?p=334
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I was in an intense close call this morning! One that you can’t even imagine! It’s totally out of this w… no. No I wasn’t.
Good for you and your family for the not-burning of your house!
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We have too many fire extinguishers and smoke alarms!
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whoa! I also experienced that and it really requires active electrons in your body to pack things up.
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Lol at the laptop cooling pad hahaha. You know I was wondering why you went offline suddenly, fire pala! Hahaha :P
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You brought your cooling pad but not your laptop? Uhhhh?
I almost slipped and fell against a heap of rocks when I went hiking. Wee. More adrenaline rush!
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It was last year I think, it wasn’t my neighbor but a good friend and elder whom I work with at our local parish. One of her maids left a phone charger for like 48 hours in the socket and so blam! Sparks went off and in their panic they immediately ran out of the house instead of putting out the small flames.
Which of course grew into a massive and awesome inferno that really burned their house to its bare walls.
Mind-boggling fact, it was raining hard that day and so even though I’m not a fireman, I was soaking wet for I joined in the bunch of men that helped in the evacuation of what they managed to salvage from the fire.
If you saw how much we hauled out from the first floor, you’d get down on your knees and worship adrenalin! LOL
PS
No humans were seriously injured during the fire.
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I’ve experienced having steamy hot sex when the neighbors started yelling, not “FIRE! FIRE!” but “Ingay nyo, magpatulog kayo!”Twice we had this fire scare and on instinct, I just grab a few clothes, wallet, and some gadgets. It’ll be nice if we all have a “things to immediately grab in case of fire” list handy, methinks. Ima make one soon.Fritz’s last blog post..iBlog 4 Summit + 88DB.com Blogger’s Night on April 26
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That is one scary looking fire. Good thing it was contained.
Lightbulb :) haha :)
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I never actually experienced being on the scene of fire. Wag naman sana. XD
ROFL @ Fritz!!
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[quote comment="120011"]It was last year I think, it wasn’t my neighbor but a good friend and elder whom I work with at our local parish. One of her maids left a phone charger for like 48 hours in the socket and so blam! Sparks went off and in their panic they immediately ran out of the house instead of putting out the small flames.
Which of course grew into a massive and awesome inferno that really burned their house to its bare walls.
Mind-boggling fact, it was raining hard that day and so even though I’m not a fireman, I was soaking wet for I joined in the bunch of men that helped in the evacuation of what they managed to salvage from the fire.
If you saw how much we hauled out from the first floor, you’d get down on your knees and worship adrenalin! LOL
PS
No humans were seriously injured during the fire.
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Wow. Just wow.
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Lightbulb :) haha :)
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Iknowrite!
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I’ve experienced having steamy hot sex when the neighbors started yelling, not “FIRE! FIRE!” but “Ingay nyo, magpatulog kayo!”Twice we had this fire scare and on instinct, I just grab a few clothes, wallet, and some gadgets. It’ll be nice if we all have a “things to immediately grab in case of fire” list handy, methinks. Ima make one soon.[/quote]
More about the secks please.
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Wow… that’s one hell of a situation there… never had that happened in my life~ Sounds frightening and exciting at the same time, but I’d rather not experience it… You’re lucky though, at least you’re house is safe… ^_^
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What burns nearby our house are grassfields, not houses. Weird, really.
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