Fire!We were all in my aunt's kitchen at the back of her huge rambling Victorian house. I was only small and had wandered off to go to the loo, but given up after finding the hall full of smoke. "That was quick," my mum said after a few minutes. "Yes - it's all smoky," I replied.
I've never seen adults move so fast.
So, like my cousin who'd managed to set fire to the roof, tell us your fire stories.
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chthonic, Thu 3 Nov 2005, 9:11)
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burningI worked with a guy who had previously worked in an aluminium smelter.
He used to regale us with tales of the daft things people do when working with really hot molten metals.
One day I had jokingly enquired if he had ever seen any injuries, "'cause that thatf stuff would burn right through you..."
He went all quiet and said that the week he started there had been a fatal accident where someone had fallen into, or came into contact with some "vat" [or similar] of motlen aluminium and his lower torso had become instantly consumed by the metal [Terminator Style].
Except unlike in the film, he screamed, and screamed and screamed. What really freaked out my work mate was the sinister gossip which came out of all of that.
It was whispered round the factory that on seeing their mortally wounded team mate in the vat, screaming, the relative merits of shutting him up by poking him right under the surface were seemingly discussed! Eeek!
Sanity kicked in and they pulled him away but it was too late.
Well that killed the conversation on our lunch break, I can tell you!
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Fire & Forget it's the only way to be sure, Sun 6 Nov 2005, 10:21,
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