Where's the fire?
Where's the fire?
winston89
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/18/06
#1Where's the fire?
Posted: 11/8/09 at 8:54am
Ok, so the other night in my brother's apartment building in Cambridge Mass, someone was cooking and it must have gotten a little smoky in their apartment because the fire alarm went off. Those of us on the third floor of the building could easily tell that it was due to cooking because of the smell. Well, in any event, the Cambridge fire department had to arrive to make sure it was safe for us to go back inside. The part that really scared me was this. It was that the fire department is not even three blocks away and it took them a half hour just to get to the apartment. My brother, his roommate and girlfriend and I were kind of scared at the thought of what would happen had there actually been a fire.
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#2re: Where's the fire?
Posted: 11/8/09 at 11:46amI tihnk you should write a letter to the fire chief and have them fired.
....but the world goes 'round
#2re: Where's the fire?
Posted: 11/8/09 at 1:38pmWinston, you lead what could only be described as, in Lady Bracknell's words, "a life crammed with incident."
JohnBoy2
Broadway Legend Joined: 3/21/06
#3re: Where's the fire?
Posted: 11/8/09 at 4:55pm
The thread's title made me think of this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vBTQUhYwk2o
#4re: Where's the fire?
Posted: 11/8/09 at 5:25pmWhat a great movie. The sequel fell a little flat though
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We must have different Gods. My God said "do to others what you would have them do to you". Your God seems to have said "My Way or the Highway".
#5re: Where's the fire?
Posted: 11/8/09 at 5:53pmWhen my home caught fire when I was 17, we lived two blocks from a volunteer fire department. Because we lived within city limits, they couldn't respond. We had to wait 15 minutes for the city department to get there. By the time they got in, the house just had to be gutted. When we called, it was contained within one room.
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millie_dillmount
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/22/04
#6re: Where's the fire?
Posted: 11/8/09 at 6:08pmLOL taz.
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#7re: Where's the fire?
Posted: 11/8/09 at 6:30pmAnd, sometimes people actually don't live at the firehouse. So they have to drive there to respond. Some people are a-holes too and don't move for anything, when you are supposed to. They also could just suck at responding. I know the ambulance squad in the next town over from me is notorious for only taking "glamour" calls. The ones where the person didn't just fall or get sick. If their brain is falling out of their head though, they'll be there.
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#8re: Where's the fire?
Posted: 11/8/09 at 6:41pm
Winston, you're in for a troubled, stressful life if you spend too much time worrying about what could have happened.
When I crossed the street today, I could have been hit. When I went online today, I could have gotten a virus. My heart could stop ticking for no reason.
Be happy nothing happened. Be grateful nobody was hurt and there was no property damage. You have no idea if that same unit was responding to a more severe fire emergency.
JerseyGirl, however, has a legitimate reason to be angry. If I worked at that fire department, they'd have to fire me, because I'd respond to the fire regardless of what county it was in.
landryjames2
Leading Actor Joined: 5/17/06
#9re: Where's the fire?
Posted: 11/9/09 at 4:02pm
Winston is thorougly entertaining to me...(or at least the responses)...anyway, his incident reminds me of this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NQp-6mN3gl0
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