Last night my husband and I were watching TV. Suddenly, through the venetian blind, we could see flashing lights. Peeking out, we saw a fire truck across the street at our neighbor's house, plus an ambulance. A couple of firemen were dragging a hose up the street. Other firemen were going in and out the front door, which was propped open. This neighbor rents out rooms to several people. One of them came out front with two little dogs on leashes. We couldn't make sense of of anything we were seeing. Was there a fire or not?
After a half an hour, the fire truck and ambulance shut off their flashing lights and pulled away. I immediately phoned our neighbor.
"Oh," she said, "My bad. I set a candle on my wood-burning stove and it melted. The wax ran down the back of the stove and got into the grate. We couldn't reach it, and it just smoked and smoked. We thought it was going to set the house on fire, but it didn't, and we're all OK."
So glad no one got hurt or died. But I can see how it could be frightening.
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Our mutual friend, Sue, had an a/c malfunction on the first 4th of July she was in her new house down in NC. Smoke billowed out into the house where her sisters had recently arrived for a long weekend, and they had to call the fire department. No damage except to the a/c, which the firemen switched off at the breaker box, but they had to endure the awful July heat for the rest of the visit. Welcome to the South!
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