reminds me of story my olde man told when he was riding his Douglas around Birmingham. Bus nearly had him off so he waited until the bus came to a stop and remonstrated with the driver that ‘he’d nearly had him off his motorbike’ driver replied ‘yes but I didn’t though did I’ replied the driver.
I'm a professional chimney sweep & lost count of times I've pointed out the charing on wood stacked against stoves or wooden beams above open fires that have been burnt....Carbon monoxide & fire alarms really save lives.
nasty. i've been in a similar position but the fire alarm didn't go off. it was the first time i was left to look after the lad when he was a bairn. i had not long lit one of the fires and got half way up the stairs to put the kid down for a kip when the phone went, i hummed and hawed on whether or not to dingy it or not. luckily i chose turn around and take he call. after a 15min blether i took him back upstairs, opened his bedroom door to find the room full of smoke with flames bursting through the wall from a soot box i didnt know we had and had been made of....wood. yip, fugging wood.
near misses/fire, i'm sure there are many on here with stories - I remember getting carried away welding up the rear of a sill on a Lancia*, i'd stripped away the carpet inside the door and the rear loom but missed that the std masking tape applied was covering a large tooling hole in the inner sill. Stopped to check luckily, opened the door to find door card totally ablaze. Funny looking back *early Delta HF Turbo, yes it was very rusty.
