Kaleb
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I haven't been around here in a while, I know, so let me explain why. By the way, you may be in for a good read here, so please go through the post thoroughly.
A couple of weeks ago, I went out to the garage in the morning as usual to work on my projects.
As I walked out, I got the shock of my life. There was a whole pile of rags ablaze on top of my Dad's stereo system. I grabbed an extinguisher, but nothing happened, since I had used it to put out a burning metho spill some time ago. So I ran back to the house and my parents called the fire brigade.
Dad smashed the back window of the garage, pulled the garage fuse on the switchboard and I went back outside to help him get a hose onto the fire while we waited for help.
Meanwhile some passers by had stopped to help us, and the fire had become more intense, there were flames visible from the roof! We were fighting a losing battle with the hose, so I yelled out "Get the Camry(Mum's car) out of there! Or the whole place could go up!" So Dad jumped in, started it up and backed out into the driveway.
Just as Dad backed the car out, the fire brigade arrived. They grabbed their big hoses and rushed in. They hosed the place and dug stuff out of the roof space until there wasn't a fizzle left.
Later inspections revealed that my tooling and engines are okay, though my lathe tripped an earth leakage detector. The fire chief concluded that an electrical fault had started the fire.
The garage will need to have it's roof redone, and my lathe will need fixing, but I was praised for my quick thinking that had saved the car, the tooling and the engines. My parents tell me that we fared well, since the whole garage, or the whole house could have gone up.
So all this will mean that my projects will be on hold until repairs are completed, but I can still enjoy running my engines.
A couple of weeks ago, I went out to the garage in the morning as usual to work on my projects.
As I walked out, I got the shock of my life. There was a whole pile of rags ablaze on top of my Dad's stereo system. I grabbed an extinguisher, but nothing happened, since I had used it to put out a burning metho spill some time ago. So I ran back to the house and my parents called the fire brigade.
Dad smashed the back window of the garage, pulled the garage fuse on the switchboard and I went back outside to help him get a hose onto the fire while we waited for help.
Meanwhile some passers by had stopped to help us, and the fire had become more intense, there were flames visible from the roof! We were fighting a losing battle with the hose, so I yelled out "Get the Camry(Mum's car) out of there! Or the whole place could go up!" So Dad jumped in, started it up and backed out into the driveway.
Just as Dad backed the car out, the fire brigade arrived. They grabbed their big hoses and rushed in. They hosed the place and dug stuff out of the roof space until there wasn't a fizzle left.
Later inspections revealed that my tooling and engines are okay, though my lathe tripped an earth leakage detector. The fire chief concluded that an electrical fault had started the fire.
The garage will need to have it's roof redone, and my lathe will need fixing, but I was praised for my quick thinking that had saved the car, the tooling and the engines. My parents tell me that we fared well, since the whole garage, or the whole house could have gone up.
So all this will mean that my projects will be on hold until repairs are completed, but I can still enjoy running my engines.
