Reply #18: Any fire in the house is scary as HELL...I have had 3 kitchen fires [View All]

[mtnester]

in my life...two were my fault, one was not

First one was when I was with my ex hubby stationed at Eglin...I put a pan of popped corn in the oven when we did not eat it all (you know, that one day stale popcorn that is still good to eat). Forgot about it and turned on the oven the next day to preheat and it caught the pan with corn on fire...I got it out but how embarrassing to call the Fire Dept., since ex hubby was a firefighter, and he was on duty that day...I heard about that one for months...it was just smoke all over, and the oven was not even ruined.

Second was me boiling a little butter/water preparing for packaged food (back in my I use prepackaged food youth) and forgot about it. Well, the water boiled off, but the butter caught fire, and burned up and into my cabinets. I had a small kitchen and could not even get near the lid, salt or ANYTHING I could put it out with. My son called 911 and I ran outside and got the extra long grill tongs, grabbed the pot and ran with it outside. I managed to burn my hand, the carpet as I ran it outside, and the cabinets were scorched and bubbling. If I had not gotten it outside, the fire dept. told me it would have turned into a serious kitchen fire. I did get taken to task for trying to fight it myself, but it ended OK.

The last one I had was about 7 years ago. My hubby had gotten my a coveted automatic coffee maker with a carafe for Christmas. Well, I plugged it in the day after to make some coffee. After a while I went in to the kitchen to see if it was done, and was APPALLED to see flames shooting out of the back of it, and the cabinets sizzling. My hubby grabbed and yanked (again with the long tongs while I was simultaneously screaming "You will get electrocuted don't touch it!" and dailing 911) and threw it in in the stainless sink then turned the extinguisher on it. We had bubbled cabinets, counter top melting, and a coffe pot that was unreconizable since the entire unit literally metled to a blob. We reported that one to the Consumer Products safety people, even sent them the pot per their request, then never heard another thing if there was a recall.

I think that is enough fire in the house for me. I remember distinctly also on each one repeating something like "please no oh God no please no no no" over and over, then crying when all was said and done.