Worst Morning of my Life.

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This has to be the worst way I've ever been woken up in my entire life. But these were the exact words I was awoken with today: " Dawn get up and get your dogs outside and into one of the cars, the house is on fire! " Needless to say, it did not take me very long to get up, and get my dogs safely out of the house. Since my Mother already wrote a post about all of this for one of her yahoo groups. Instead of typing it all again, I'm just going to copy her post here. It's told through my Mother's eyes. This Mornings Chimney Fire, Important Information! Early this morning, there was a roar through the house, that sounded as if a truck was trying to burst through the houses walls. The house began to fill with smoke, so my husband and son went outside to check the chimney. Smoke was roaring from the top, and we realized that we had a chimney fire. I called the fire department, and woke up my daughter. We rushed the dogs outside, and put them safely into the cars. When I went back into the house to check and make sure we had all of the dogs, I closed the dampers on the stove. I think that helped calm the fire down, losing the oxegyn that was feeding through it. We stood outside waiting, three firetrucks and an ambulance came. We were all a little embarassed because the smoke wasn't as thick and ominous looking as it had been. But we're thankful they came, because there -was- a fire in the chimney. They took apart our woodstove, and got the fire out. It took an hour to get everything settled. When they were done, the head of the group came out to tell us what had happened. He said our chimney was quite beautiful, and very clean. What had started the fire, is that my father used to have a fire place here, rather than a wood stove. When he put the woodstove in, he never took out the large damper for the fire place. The man said that people to this day, STILL do this, and it causes MOST Chimney fires. So if you have a fireplace, and decide to install a woodstove instead, always be sure to take the damper out of the fireplace before installing the woodstove. It's quite dangerous, as the debris will continue to fall onto it, until it finally catches fire.