Once again I just have to state that you just never know when you get up in the morning what is going to happen that day. Obviously. But its why worrying is so pointless-you dont know what the future holds anyway. Maybe nothing will happen at all-maybe you will be sitting at home like you always do and then all of a sudden you have a chimney fire and the whole fire dept is at your house.
That happened to us Wednesday night. Thankfully my dad figured out pretty quick about the chimney and put out the fire in our stove and was able to contain it. Before that though, he had me call the fire dept.
I have to say waiting for them to arrive seemed like an eternity. On top of that is the fact that in Rindge we just have a volunteer fire dept so sometimes arrival can take a while. Luckily though, before they even came my dad got the chimney fire out so that it was just smoking when they arrived. (yay babbo!)
And then-the whole dept was at our house! They ended up going and checking the chimney for us just in case before taking off.
They told us not to use our stove until we get our chimney cleaned-and my dad was able to plead ignorance about that-playing the "we're from CA card." Not that there are no chimneys in CA-but we never had one. hehe... The guys were all really nice about it though, even apologizing for getting water in the house. (no prob!)
In the end, even though we didnt really need their help at least it ended up being a good drill for them. And I felt a lot better knowing they checked us out.
Its kinda scary thinking some kind of horrible catastrophe can befall you one day out of the blue, but at least it helps me to try not to take things for granted and to be thankful for everything.
Major praise that our roof didnt catch and that we and our house are all ok!!
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