House next to mine was just gutted by a fire. (56k=no)
Friday, September 28th, 2007 - 7:44pm
I took the day off and was doing work stuff. The doorbell rang and a gardener said the house next to mine was on fire. I walked outside and it MOTHER FN Was.
I called 911.
When My wife got back she took some pictures in case we needed to later file an insurance claim for smoke damage. Had the wind been blowing the other direction, you would have one less forum spammer
I'll link them later, im still kind of freaked out
http://www.deathindustry.com/fire/
edit - added images
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Yow, pretty f*cking scary, isn't it?
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Turn lemons into lemonade, my friend. Now you have a better view.
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The shop* opposite my house was gutted by a fire the other week - my housemate had to sleep downstairs because of the smoke in his room. It was a strange mixture of impressive and scary.
And disappointment at having to walk an extra 500 yards to buy beer.
*or as they say in the former colonies, "minimart"
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Wow, that's horrible. Is anyone hurt?
No one was hurt. After I called 911 I went over and yelled at the front door if anyone was home. I heard someone, but it could have been their dog.
I walked in the place, the smoke was heavy upstairs so I had no desire to go up there.
From the back room of the bottom floor this older lady (50+) came out on her cell phone and looked at me with that "WTF are you doing in my house" look. I said Are you the only one home, your house is on fire. She still gave me a funny look then smelled the smoke and made a bee-line for the front door.
She then started freaking out. The dog came running out of the house and she tried to grab it. Some dude driving by stopped and asked if I called 911. I did. The lady said grab a hose and try to put out the fire. That was just not going to help, it was coming out heavy from the 2nd story and the smoke was coming from the attic vent thingy.
FD got there in ten minutes, and kept arriving for another 20. It only took them ten to put it out, but the entire 2nd floor is gutted and there was LOTS of water used to put it out. You cant see if from the pictures, but the place is either burnt or soaked.
Sad part is an hour or so after it was out the rest of the family came home and you could just see them stand there shocked and crying.
The place is totalled.
I live in the place to the immediate left.
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Where in Cali do you live? The architecture looks very familiar.
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Laguna Niguel, Orange County
Off Greenfield and the 73 or Crown Valley and the 405
There have been a ton of investigators so far. FD, Police, City, Insurance and a few I dont know. Something is going on with how this got started. One of the first FD guys to show up that I helped move some hoses thanked me and said they found something or they wouldnt still be here.
Assuming CEJ is still alive, I live close to his old place.
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In all seriousness, that's horrible. I'm glad she was able to get out of the house in time. It was very heroic of you to run in there to help.
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Your wife took all these pics? I'd worry if I were you! Looks like she has a serious firemen fetish thing going!
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Wow! Take a breather man. That's just incredibly scary.
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I thought the same thing....
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Fire is scary.
A while back, I narrowly avoided my own home going up in a blaze. Waking up to a house filled with smoke is - in retrospect - the ultimate adrenaline rush. In 2003, a house on my block burned to the ground on Christmas Day, four people died.
Property damage on that scale is a huge pain in the ass, I am glad to hear no one got hurt in this incident.
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I know what you are going through. Here is a similar thread with a very sad ending from my neighbor's house a few months back ....
http://www.gamerswithjobs.com/node/33167
Wow. I am glad you folks are ok.
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dthind glad you are safe but.... remind me never to get to know you or live anywhere near you.... i think there's some area of effect thing going on
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Okay, first things first:
I'm glad all the people involved are okay, even if your neighbors are now in the process of having to rebuild their lives after the fire.
Second, dude. I live off of Aliso Viejo Parkway. I used to drive past there all the time for work, and still occasionally do when I'm going to the BevMo.
Third, yeah, maybe you'd wanna sidle up to those firemen and ask if they have a second-hand set of gear...surprise your wife with some spontaneous cos-play.
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A few years back, I was getting ready for work when I noticed that the entryway light was strobing. After a little while, our power went out. I called it in to the power company and went to work.
About 11am, I checked my voicemail to see if the power company had left a message, but instead I found a voicemail from my landlord from an hour before. His message only said that someone had called the fire department about a fire at our house. No other information and no calls since. I rushed home.
It turns out that an exterminator at one of the houses behind ours had seen a fire along the back of our house. This guy, whose name I never knew, was a former Navy firefighter. He rushed over and used our hose to put out the fire. Our only casualties were a small inflatable pool, a plastic chair, and a garbage can, plus some damage to some areas of the outside wall.
Apparently while doing some water main work (water mains in this neighborhood are just awful and burst all the time), the work crew had nicked the power line. Somehow this crossed with the phone and cable lines, shorted them out, and caused an electrical fire at the back of the house where the cable enters the house.
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Crazy, it's good to hear that your neighbours are all right but that's insane what happened.
Very Nice Pictures though.
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Wow that is crazy. Firemen are so under-appreciated.
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Good thing it wasn't windy. With homes being built so close to one another it always amazes me the whole block doesn't burn down.
My neighbor 3 houses away had their place burn down this summer. It took me about 3 days to notice! We're all on a gravel road with multi-acre heavily treed lots (huge dense pines) and their house isn't easily visible from the road. I kept thinking the yellow tape across their driveway was there as a result of some driveway work or something. Fortunately no one was hurt, however only a couple chunks of brick wall survived the fire, the rest of house burned to the ground.
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Sorry, that was the first thought I had... figured I'd share.
Glad to hear everyone got out ok, and it didn't spread to your place.
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Well, rumors of my death have been greatly exaggerated. Work has ramped up a bit and we had a bit of a family tragedy two weeks ago (my wife's father passed away).
Where was this off Greenfield? It obviously wasn't in my old condo complex ... no one had the hint of a front yard and true to all California condo communities, the streets are never full width so the fire vehicles would have taken all of the free space. It does look like the houses over by the elementary school.
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Other side of greenfield and down crown valley a mile going west from the freeway.
New wife, got (re) married.
Give Ms. CEJ my condolences
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The apartment building next to mine had burnt down right before I moved in. Just for the heck of it I googled and found someone had youtubed it.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UPJulVKMeUA
What a strange age we live in.
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