The weekend was gorgeous. The temperature was in the 70’s and the sun was shining. It was a great weekend to be outside and that is where we were most of the weekend.
We cleaned out our messy garage on Saturday. We threw a lot of stuff away and are starting to get ready for the garage sale that the neighborhood is having in May. It is so nice to see a clean garage although I am sure it won’t stay clean for long.
Saturday night was a good night for smores. We started our fire in the fire pit and started roasting marshmallows. A few minutes after I sat down I see smoke coming from my back door neighbor’s garage. I then see the daughter running with a fire extinguisher. We immediately called the fire dept. Luckily, they were able to get the fire out with the extinguisher and no one was terribly hurt. I am not sure about the damage but I think it was mostly just in the garage. They may have had some smoke travel inside the house but I am not sure.
The neighbors had a deep fat fryer on in their garage which caught on fire. This is the 2nd time we have witnessed someone almost catching their house on fire with one of these. The first time was many years ago. The people were using it on their deck a little too close to the house. They were able to get the fire out but it did burn some of the siding on the back of the house. The one on Saturday was our 2nd time but our kids also witnessed this one.
Both of the older boys said their legs were shaking they were so scared. We talked a lot about fires and what do to if we have one in the house. We showed them how to open their windows if they can’t leave out the bedroom doors. We promised them we would purchase extinguishers for each level of our house. We talked more on Sunday.
EE looked at me this morning and said he couldn’t sleep because all he was thinking about was the fire. He had these really big bags under his eyes this morning before he left. He was up around 6am today. I am not sure what to say to make him feel more secure.
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