Well, that was exciting!
My bush caught fire … !
I don’t know if you’ve ever been to my place, but I live in a ground floor-flat: with shrubbery directly outside my window.
I’ve got three flats above mine, so you know.
Yesterday … ?
Yesterday, I notice a mild smell of burning: and initially put it down to needing to clean my oven!
It wasn’t the oven. A few minutes after I notice the burning smell, one of my neighbours knocked on my door, looking rather worried. To tell me the shrubbery outside my window was on fire.
I managed to put the fire: with the help of at least three buckets of water.
AND managed to call the fire brigade, to make bloody SURE people who put fires out professionally had a look. I wanted to make sure I’d put the bush out.
What happened?
Going by the position of the smoke* — right against the wall under my window — what I THINK happened is someone in the flats above mine has dropped a cigarette off the side/back of their balcony, without putting it out, first: we’ve had it happen before. It’s something the previous residents of the flat above mine have done.
Like I say … ? I THINK I owe one neighbour a big thank you. Thanking you, Hayley!
As the fire men said, when they got here?
It could’ve been a LOT worse … !
I don’t know if you’ve ever been to my place, but I live in a ground floor-flat: with shrubbery directly outside my window.
I’ve got three flats above mine, so you know.
Yesterday … ?
Yesterday, I notice a mild smell of burning: and initially put it down to needing to clean my oven!
It wasn’t the oven. A few minutes after I notice the burning smell, one of my neighbours knocked on my door, looking rather worried. To tell me the shrubbery outside my window was on fire.
I managed to put the fire: with the help of at least three buckets of water.
AND managed to call the fire brigade, to make bloody SURE people who put fires out professionally had a look. I wanted to make sure I’d put the bush out.
What happened?
Going by the position of the smoke* — right against the wall under my window — what I THINK happened is someone in the flats above mine has dropped a cigarette off the side/back of their balcony, without putting it out, first: we’ve had it happen before. It’s something the previous residents of the flat above mine have done.
Like I say … ? I THINK I owe one neighbour a big thank you. Thanking you, Hayley!
As the fire men said, when they got here?
It could’ve been a LOT worse … !
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