I don't have a lot of time (remember what I said about Wednesdays being shit days?) but I wanted to let you guys know what's up - thank you all SO much for the (kind of overwhelming) support from yesterday! I really appreciated the comments and emails, and so you guys should know what's up.
I hope you're not disappointed, ha.
On Monday night GSBF and I wanted tea before bed. Luckily, we had just purchased (what we thought was) a brand new tea kettle! So he put the pot on, went to his desk, and me to my... desk? Ok, couch. to finish doing whatever work we had ("work" obviously meaning "Gilmore Girls reruns" on my end) before we went to sleep.
It was the scene of domesticated bliss.
Until there was suddenly a lot POP! from the kitchen. GSBF said - what the fuck was that and as I looked over to the doorway, I saw smoke billowing out of my beautiful beautiful favorite room. In shocked, I ran over to the windows to open them (yeah, cause that's brilliant) while he ran into the room and found our (not a) tea kettle in flames on the stove, with the associated burner also consumed. I ran in after him and much to my alarm the flames were licking the bottom of our cabinets.
At this point I must say that all those great descriptive words people use to describe fire are dead on. I only understood it now.
Anyway, he grabbed the (not a) kettle and threw it in the sink and doused it, while I dumped the contents of our brita pitcher onto the stove, and continued to refill and pour until the flames were out. In short?
We were so fucking lucky.
There was NO structural damage, MINIMAL smoke damage, and we caught it without having to call the fire department. Sure, there was soot all over the dining room and the apartment smelled like ass (burnt plastic ass) for a little while, but in the end - if you're gonna have a fire, this is the way to do it.
And so!
Yesterday was a day of airating (that isn't spelled correctly but I don't have the time to figure out what is correct), cleaning, school, cleaning, airating, wash, rinse, repeat. It was rough, but we weren't complaining. And so that was our very small disaster.
In other news - you all should buy fire extinguishers.
Thank you all AGAIN for the wonderfulness. You lit a warm, cozy... well. Something. of happiness in me.
9 comments:
I started a little fire in our kitchen too... was heating up some oil to cook up some chicken for white chili and WOOOSH holy shit it's on fire!
Scalded the front of the cabinets (and the 20 boxes of tea above the stove) but nothing serious thankfully...
Hope everything works out for you.
SO scary! i am terrified of fire. we've had several small fires (thanks to the divine miss m) and have learned to keep extinguishers close by. i am SO glad you are both ok!
I've set the toaster oven on fire a couple of times, but would FREAK OUT if we had a real fire. Good for you and the Boy for taking care of business so efficiently.
ahhh!!! so scary. i think DC housing code requires that all apartments have fire extinguishers inside. my DC landlord installed one in my studio (i miss it!) before i moved...
http://dcra.dc.gov/dcra/cwp/view,A,1342,Q,640853.asp
i'm so glad you and the boy are okay!!! and i highly recommend an electric water kettle. water boils super quickly and it automatically shuts off after the water is done boiling. LOVE you.
Glad y'all kept your heads! I woulda panicked!!! Glad your okay!
If it wasn't a a tea kettle, what was it?? My dad's a fireman, we get fire extinguishers for Christmas, every year. (And, unless it's an electrical/grease fire, they make more of a mess than it's worth.)
Yes, I want to know what it actually was too, if not a tea kettle?!
How scary! Glad there was not too much damage though.
jp - that is my biggest fear. BIGGEST FEAR!! which is why we're getting a fire extinguisher.
claire - you seem very level headed about it all!! guess that comes with HAVING a super divine miss m ;)
bigsis - i dont know if efficient is the right word, but we didn't burn the entire place down! whew.
j. jeter - fascinating. FASCINATING. i wish i knew that. also, yes, i think you are right on with the electric water kettle.
jane - i think we did afterwards, which i think you would too. you kind of just intuitively react to the ACTUAL fire.
susanlee - that's what i've been told! i'm really glad the Boy keeps our brita out of the fridge because it was easily accessible.
arielle AND susanlee - it was a vacuum pot? i odn't know what it is, but it's made out of abs plastic
momma - ME TOO!!!
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