Sometimes life is scary and choices mean everything..

Glad you're ok. Get those fire alarms working!

When I was about 8 years old, our place caught on fire (found to be caused by faulty wiring the landlord was supposed to have replaced months earlier). Lost a lot of stuff but no one was hurt at least.

Good to know that your fire was averted before it could become a major problem. Even without deaths, a house fire is terrible to go through.

Wow.. thank god.. and yes.. always check everything before u go to sleep.. and get a smoke detecter.

Am I having deja vu, cause I remember sth like this was posted a while ago (not exactly like this but still) @.@

glad you're alright. One little thing can change our lives forever. Good instincts can help a lot!

Glad you and your family are ok!
Stories you say.. Winter time (slippery), I was about 9 years old. I was running accross the street on a red light and didn't notice a car. It started breaking and I slipped - somehow i slipped under the car in-between the front and rear wheels - about 1 centimeter away from the rear wheel. A woman pedestrian shouted on me when I ran off...

Thank god nothing happened to you. Follow ambidot's advice. And your parents are stupid

damn that's horrible... :O at least nothing happened.

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Wow, that's pretty scary. :(
Glad that nothing bad happened after all. Be safe!

Glad no one got hurt, and that you and your family are okay. :X

I once(or maybe multiple times) had acidentally(or maybe not) set a field on fire. But luckily each time my friends and I were able to put it out ;>

Glad you're alright! I had a near death experience(?) recently too. :) I was hiking in France, on a relatively high mountain (1800m) and we were going back down after just reaching the peak. The ground was covered in a thick snow, and walking downhill was pretty difficult, because our feet and legs were aching and being my first hike, I felt close to collapsing, and it was quite hard staying upright. So when I reached a slightly less steep bit of the hill (still steep, just not crazy steep) I decided to sit down and slide a bit. (Genius idea, right? Who wouldn't do that high up on a mountain? xD)

Everything was okay for the first minute or so, I could easily control my speed, it felt a lot better and as far as I was aware I was going to reach the flatter part a bit further on down below (not the base, just an odd flat part close to the peak). But it didn't occur to me (for whatever reason the rational side of my brain must of not been working that day) that it was only flat because it was a cliff, and it dropped down immediately afterwards. We couldn't see this from where we were though, and for all we knew it didn't drop at all.

But anyway, it went wrong. Half way down I started speeding up. I still have no clue why, because nothing changed, but within seconds I was going WAY too fast, and no matter how much I tried to stop and scrape the ground, I'd just go faster and faster. This is when I really started paying attention to my surroundings and where I was headed, and just then it decided to dawn on me. I'm heading straight towards a cliff. And I'm going to fly straight over said cliff, break a million bones and die a slow, painful, freezing death gurgling in my own blood.

So I flew over, dropped on to a rock, tumbled more times than I could count and landed in a bed of snow. Where I remained motionless for a few seconds, just going over what had happened, and half expecting me to suddenly scream in pain as my broken, disfigured body with all it's pain catches up with me in my state of shock. Much to my relief though, that never happened. In nothing short of a miracle, I was perfectly fine. Not a single cut, bruise or scar over than a slight pain in my hip. :)

I was incredibly lucky that day, for a number of reasons. The cliff could of easily been a lot higher. I remember going down and looking back up and seeing numerous other cliffs I'd stand NO chance of surviving, no matter how lucky I was. And also because I could of very easily broken bones, gotten a severe head injury or just simply died. Having any sort of serious injury that high up a mountain, with no one there to help is not a pleasant thought. But anyway, I managed to somehow bounce and fly over three sets of rocks, with no mark to show of it. And it would of only taken one rock to do some serious damage.

This might not be exactly what you're talking about, but I understand what you're saying. It's a great feeling to be lucky like that. And what I learn't from my experience, in the part that differed from yours, is that you're not scared in those final few seconds, where it's up to fate and there's nothing left for you to do. That split second before I was about to fall down the cliff, I really didn't have the time for fear or to worry, for all I knew it could of been a 100-200m drop, but that still didn't matter. There was just this calming, instantaneous understanding that what will happen, will. And so be it. :)

Smoke detectors are critically important to keep functioning.
I think most people treat them too much like blown out light bulbs, rather than an actual, notable danger.

Definitely, all my worst encounters with the topic were due to busted fire alarms or a lack of them to begin with. :|

Though I swear my roommate was intentionally trying to kill me, the one time. -.-
Please remember: Don't be that asshole that leaves food on the stove while your roommate is sleeping, and then leaves the house for a very long period of time, all after taking the smoke detector down and not saying anything about it.
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..yeah, definitely intentional. :X

On a more notable 'save the day before things got terrible' story, I did once stop a water heater from exploding right next to someone who had passed out in the hallway in front of it. And I'm not guessing that, the fire department actually explicitly stated that if I hadn't shut it off when I did, it would have blown up within a minute or so. :X
It was absurdly (we're talking decades) behind on being replaced. The company that made it didn't even exist anymore. :X Mind you, a water heater is supposed to be replaced every 10 years- and here was a relic that didn't even have modern safety standards, hence the whole incident occurring as it did.
On the one hand, I guess it's incredible it lasted so very long without simply shutting down (or blowing up before), but wow. :X
Honestly, we should have sued the rental company.. but as is, we got a brand new water heater and the ability to pay our rent whenever-the-fuck-we-wanted. :'P

Funny, i got a fire last week while cooking at family meeting, few oil cook can make a big flame thrower.

YEI!, we are fire blenders!

Glad you and your family are alright. :)

Glad you're all okay!
Good thing it was smoke, not fog..

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2 years ago I went with parents at our summer house for 3 days, and AFAIK few hours as we left, a pipe broke in a second floor, and we had our house flooding in water for straight 3 days xD to this day. I remember those waterfalls from ceiling when we came back. Ofc we have our house fully repaired and safe now..

Have you ever had anything like this happen to you before?

Yeah, I think I've been in a burning house twice IIRC, it was long ago, my father was living in some kind of weird/cursed house or something, both times it was his house. I was too tiny to remember all of it, but I do remember opening the door to hallway when going to bathroom, and there was like a wall of smoke, and I was like "nope". One of these times happened because of a flare rocket, it was the new year's eve, and some people were dumb enough to use those, instead of the recreational kind of rockets. But the thing is, they're still hot when they fall down, and one of those fell into the house through some kind of hole in roof.

Hey! Wake up! There's smoke in our house and I don't know what to do!". My dad immediately woke up and rushed to put it out.

Let me edit it a bit :

" My dad immediately woke up and turned the living room light off and went to bed again like nothing was happening there.

:P

Beside jokes, i don't have any experience with house fire but i think you should always have an extinguisher in your house for emergency situations!

Glad you're ok.

Years ago, when I was living in London, a friend from abroad was in town, so we were going to meet at X location on Saturday. On Friday we decide to meet on Sunday instead. That Saturday, a terrorist bomb blew up at the time and location where we were supposed to meet.

This is why I fall asleep a lot easier when I hear other people being awake around me.

It is kind of odd when you think about it, pretty much our whole society is awake during the day, but asleep during the night. We could use some meerkat behaviour, have one rest while the other keeps an eye out, but no, I am the weird one for staying up all night and sleeping during the day. :P

Everything happens for a purpose - for a good purpose specifically. For example, if I get out tomorrow, a car may hit me, but if I stay home, I'll never know that this would have happened to me. :P You see, you make a lot of insignificant choices everyday and these choices are probably the reason that you're still alive and healthy. Every choice matters, remember that. ;)

That's scary indeed. Nice to hear you are all ok.
I haven't had something like this happen to me yet. I don't even have someone to call for help in here, I'm all by myself D:

I'm really glad to hear that you're safe.

And yeah, I've had a similar experience. It was the day after Christmas, back when I was still living with my parents. I was sitting up late playing a game I got from my sister when suddenly the power went out. Looked out my window, and noticed that the balcony was on fire. Quickly got out of my room, told my parents that the balcony was on fire and started filling buckets with water so that we would be able to put it out. By the time the firefighters arrived the fire was put out. Turned out that someone had thought it was a good idea to shoot some fireworks right next to our house (people are really careless with that stuff, not understanding how dangerous fireworks can actually be).

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