Lets start at the beginning.....
April 6th, I was having a chill day and decided to watch Twilight again that I had just bought. Tanaya was playing in her bounce chair, hubby was on a week trip to fort nelson for work and the other two were at school. So I'm munching away on my healthy lunch of nachos, and watching Bella and Edward fly through the trees when my neighbor opens my back door and starting yelling my house is on fire. She comes racing in and grabs the baby (no trust man, lmao) and runs back out of the house. I'm yelling at her "Did u call 911?" she says no so I grab the phone and start calling as I run outside to see what the fire is. There on my back deck is a small fire burning up the corner wall about 3 or 4 feet. I get the dogs out and then tell the 911 lady (who will not shut up and get off the phone) that I can put this out and go back in the house to get some buckets of water. She starts arguing with me to get the hell out what do I think I'm doing (loose translation, lol). So here I am standing in my back foyer telling her that I can get it out and her fighting back. Then the fire started coming through the walls into the bathroom right where I was standing so then she starts freaking out and I'm still wanting water. As I keep trying to explain to her, this is a log home with 30 years of oil on it. If I don't get it out it's gone. Finally I get out of the house, because well, now it is too big and I can't get it out and she is really starting to annoy me so back out I go. Within 3 minutes or so, the entire back of house is in flames and then boom!! Gas lines explode and the fire blows out all the windows on the back side and enters the house. Meanwhile, I am giving the 911 lady shit because now I will have no house and if she just would've shut up I might of had this out. Dammit!
Now don't get me wrong, I didn't really care about the house over human safety but I had time to save both if she just would've SHUT UP! Mental note..hang up next time.
Cause of fire wasn't investigated but my guess was that a hot ash blew out of butt can and landed on something just perfect. It had been about 1.5 - 2 hours since my last cigarette.
Then if you can believe it, the RCMP and fire men start looking at me like I'm daft because the keys to all the vechile's are in the house and they want to move the cars so they don't explode. Um mm, sorry? I guess it is silly to keep your unused keys in the house, lol. The freakin' 911 lady kept me busy arguing that I didn't even get shoes on my feet or nothing 'cause I was putting it out. Oh well.
Four and a half hours & 4 fire trucks later, the fire was out. and the house was still standing minus a roof but was a goner. Only the fact that it was solid log was what kept it standing. It looked alot like that left piece in your fire pit. The front still looked untouched on the outside though, which was funny. The one pic up top is our neighbors garage, their truck was scorched and melted and siding melted off their house & garage. Sean's one Quad also totally melted and had to be almost completely redone. they offered to write it off but I said no as they never give you enough to get the same one and with the house I figured we had enough tot replace.
I will continue the Bainbridge saga later, Tanaya is awake and vocal....
TTYS!!
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