Holy Moly! Never A Dull Moment Near Me

to a lesser degree. one fall i was going downstairs and smelled wood burning,really strong.i really didn't think much of it,because a few of my neighbors burn weird smelling woods in their fireplaces. i asked my brother if he smelled something odd. he said "no,not really". no sooner than i said "kind of smells like a fire" i had looked out the back window of my house to see a neighbors house,fully engulfed on top,and a few trees as well.i was like "oh,there it is". the engines were there at that point. what happened was a tenant used the fireplace with his mattress snugged up against it.he tried getting the burning mattress out thru the hallway,and set the rest of the house up. but to look out the window to see that.. i was actually thankful there was space between our houses.

Jeez! I am glad you are ok! I don't think I have ever seen anything like that in my neighborhood. There was once a fire that started in the house across the street and on the opposite corner from my Mom and Dad's house a few years ago during Christmas. The husband and wife went out for the night. She had gotten a table arrangement and lit the candle and decided to let it burn down a bit while they were out because, something about the candle being a bit big or something. Anyway, my brother was outside having a smoke and he came in telling us to call 911 because he could see a fire in the window on the side of the house across the street. My brother-in-law at the time was a voluntary fire fighter where he and my sis lived in Iowa so, he pretty much just went with his instinct. He tried to get the window open, tried the doors and then just broke the window and used a fire extinguisher to stop the fire. It was oretty bad by the time he got in there. The entire wall all the way up to the ceiling was crispy fried. But, if he had waited until the fire trucks arrived, if he hadn't done what he did, more than half the house would have been on fire. By my brother seeing it because he was out having a smoke (a bit ironic huh?) and my bro-in-law breaking into the house, they both saved those homeowners a lot of money, practically all of their belongings and, really their entire house. I know I have seen some other odd ball stuff that leaves me scratching my head but, it may be too late to think of it right now. I once saw a huge meteor fall from the sky. And, when I say huge, I mean huge. I don't know where it landed...but, the thing flew past my friends and I while we were standing outside chatting at Cedar Point (the ammuzement park in Ohio) one evening. I had gotten off of my shift a couple hours ago and was meeting up with my friends as they got off their shift (we worked in the park). My back was turned to the meteor (or meteorite...can't remember which is which). My one friend was facing me and suddenly he stopped talking, looked up, his eyes got big like saucers and his jaw dropped. I kept asking him what and all he could muster was to point. I turned around to see this huge fire ball headed towards us, watched as it passed over our heads and traveled far away before it got too low to see. I likely landed multiple hundreds of miles away as it was still really high in the sky but, even as high in the sky as it was, that thing was gigantic. I can't even fathom how big it actually was. But, as high in the sky as it was, as big as it looked from that high up, it had to be ginormous. I even tried to catch where it fell on the news or in the paper but, never saw anything. So, that is about as crazy as it gets for me. But, if I remember anything else, I will come back and share it with you. The meteor/meteorite I think was the coolest thing I have ever experienced though. I never asked, but I think my friend may have dropped a little load in his britches he looked that scared. LOL!

My nice relaxing Friday night has completely relaxed my brain. All I can think of is that when I was nine I was bathing and we had a grass fire in the backyard.My mom was probably smoking while hanging the laundry. My mom, and older sister, and the neighbors beat it out with wet rugs. The neighbor boy (from Holland) went home and told his mom that my mom was pregnant, she thought it was funny as she always had a big belly and swayed back. It was just a week later she felt movement, and she was forty two. Forty three by the time my baby sister was born,

All quiet on the homefront here. My husband is visiting his parents this weekend so its just me and the cats. I took a nap this afternoon and am currently watching NCIS on DVD. I live a boring life, but sometimes thats not a bad thing.

Long ago and far away... we had just moved into our new house and I was painting and papering the master bedroom when I heard a funny little popping noise. I thought the cat was playing with an empty carton. Then I heard sirens, very close, then a knock at the door... Seems that something in the garden centre across the road had exploded and caused a fire, complete with the thick black smoke. The knock at the door was the fire marshal advising me to close my windows and stay inside, as the garden centre had been selling various pesticides and such, and they didn't know what was in the smoke.

Ya , I work in a place of high drama. I could write a book on it. Working next to the bar there is a lot that goes on here. Still, my night tonight was very quiet and peaceful compared to yours.

Goodness you certainly are being kept Entertained are you I am glad that the car never blew up as that would have been bad I feel sorry for the Person whose Car it was

Well at least no one got hurt. Wow that is exciting!heheheh Nothing exciting here just had a relaxing Friday night. I was doing some re-arranging with pictures in my house. And playing alittle with Maggie and Molly.heheheheh

I have seen many fires and they are amazing to watch but at the same time you feel for the people who own the property burning. Thankfully nothing crazy in my neighborhood this not so lovely friday its been storming. I normally love storms but it knocked power out to my hubbys work thus keeping him late at work.

No, thank goodness, I have never witnessed anything like than and so close your home. I hope you spending the rest of the evening just relaxing!! I am watching a thriller with Angelina Jolie, called "Taking Lives". I am not a big Jolie fan but this is really a very good thriller. Have a good night.

I never relax I work work and work..lol..but when I was young we had a similar fire like yours and it was a house across our street and my mom panicked and was wrapping the pillows with a blanket to take out of the house..lol..Moms funny.

I can imagine how heart-stopping that must have been, pyewacket! I experienced a similar situation many years ago, only we were driving down the street when another car burst into flames. It was frightening, to say the least. In this case it also took the firemen a very long time to put out the fire. I think that always happens with car fires.

Oh,my got!It must be very exciting.I have never witnessed it.I hope I can witness it one day.But we should keep ourselves out of danger.That will be a risk to watch it.

Friday night was good, had my grandson. Yeah have seen a bad fire.

I was never so scared in my life when the building attached to mine was on fire, we had to get out immediately and get all our cats out. Fortunately the inferno did set our place on fire but the smell in the house was so bad we couldn't live in it for two days, if we were normal people but we did we toughed it out. It was horrible.

oh what fun a car fire bet it was set and abandon. Glad it wasnt any closer to you than what it was and that you are ok hugs

Holy Moly you did have an exciting day! My was boaring compared to yours. I did my errands with my driver, but the day started with getting up at 4:30 by Abagail hungry. I got up and started laundry. It was going to get up to 77degree F so I wanted to get clothes on the line. I did four loads of laundry and hung them on the line. I cleaned the kitchen. All before 10am. I then had to take some stuff to mom. Oh joy! Mom needs new clothes and I do not know where I am going to get the money got buy them. Mom has very little money so I will get a dress for her a month. Mom wants so much stuff I cannot stand it. She is like a kid. Then my drive and I went and picked up two firends and we all went down the road to a small town to a new cafe for lunch. Let me tell you we will not be going there again. Then we did a little shopping. I found some three inch stuffed bunnies that look like bunny peeps. They look like the candy peeps. There was four in the box and they where marked 4 dollars. I have a friend who has a baby so I will be giving one to the baby and a few to petie. He loves the little toys. He does not chew up his toys.

Thankfully no one was hurt as fire can be very dangerous. I have experienced my car going up in flames at a pertol station forecourt with myself and children inside. I managed to get it off the forecourt and out onto the main road and myself and the children out before it became engulfed in flames. That day I managed to stop the traffic make front page and pull one of the fireman, unintentionally, it was very scary though but I knew I had to get away from pumps to save everything from going up. In my neighbourhood where I used to live I was awkoken by the police and they evacuated the builing as their was an armed man on the roof. It was 5am before we were allowed back home and I was only in a dressing gown and my baby in a nappy. The guy got off due to his mental state after causing over £20,000 worth of damage to the building and he started throwing tiles off the roof which damaged many cars including police cars. It was also late December and very cold. Tonight though so far here it has been an uneventful friday night and I really hope it stays that way. Ellie :D

That must have been a bit frightening but exciting all at the same time, I would have been glued to the window I expect and my kids! I have never witnessed anything like that, where I live is a really quiet area and so not much like that happens, I do not mind quiet though I must admit!

I live on an Island called Bermuda which is about 22 square miles long. about 2years ago, we had one of the biggest fires in Bermuda's history. Bermuda has one main location where all the trash is dumped. It is in the center of two main roads, (top and bottom). The bottom road has houses on it and the top has trees. Well the dump caught fire, (not quite sure how), the trees caught fire and some of the houses caught fire. It took the Bermuda fire department 3 days to put out the red fire and a week to clear out the smoke. The dump is located near the City of Hamilon. And in the city, there are many houses and shops there. Many of them including my house, were smoked out for about 2 weeks. The worst part is trying to get that smoke smell out of your house. The dump is still operational and everything is back to normal again. YEAH