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To: AugustWest who wrote (227)	3/17/2002 9:43:16 AM
From: Crocodile	Read Replies (1) of 338

Well, I have to tell you that I too have a HEALTHY respect for fires. A few years ago, I was out hanging up some laundry on the clothesline and I suddenly got scent of just the tiniest whiff of smoke on the breeze. I looked around feeling VERY alarmed as we were having the driest summer in years and I was worried that it might mean there was a grass fire burning somewhere and the wind was hot and very strong and blowing right towards our farm. I suddenly noticed a small patch of flame coming out of a window of a farmhouse about 1/2 mile away from here, so I ran in the house to call the fire department. By the time I came back outdoors...maybe 2 minutes had passed...and the flames were literally coming out through the roof of this place.. which was a big 2 story house with an attic. Within couple of more minutes the whole house was just sheets of flame and the flames were sort of "arcing" through the air towards the barns and the barn burst into flames even though it was at least a good 200 feet from the house. It was burning like hell by the time the fire department got there. And then other stuff started going on fire.. a hay baler sitting out in the field...the last bale left inside of it (there is always one left unless you yank it out),...well, it smouldered and went on fire and started the grass burning all around it. They finally had about 6 fire trucks there and they STILL couldn't stop the fire from burning towards our farm. I got scared and loaded up my animals into our show trailer and got the dogs and put them in the truck and drove over to my father-in-law's farm and left everything there for the afternoon. By the time I came back...maybe 1/2 an hour later, you could barely see or breathe around my place.. smoke and ashes flying like crazy towards our place on the wind. Really scary. I was afraid the pine forest and the dry pastures would start burning and destroy our place and my neighbour's place to the east of us. Anyhow, they FINALLY managed to get it stopped and left a crew of firemen there for about 2 days to soak down the barn which had been full of that year's crop of hay... So, well... yah.. I'm careful about fires and won't even have so much as a barbecue going outside in hot, dry summer weather. And I guess I've seen my fill of cars going on fire in garages when they've been being worked on... and stuff go on fire in the wrecking yard where I used to work... guys cutting a car apart to ship part of it to a body shop and the torch sets fire to the interior.. WHOA!! Talk about an inferno!! They used to grab the burning car with the loader and drop it PLUNK into this "moat" (swamp) around the outside of the yard..to extinguish it if necessary. (o: (I have some funny stories about that kind of thing, BTW). Well, don't want to go scaring you about the kiln.. just that I appreciate the safety aspects of this kind of thing and take them pretty seriously myself.

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