Re: Merry Christmas

Cindy Hamilton wrote:

...fire extinguisher...

I have one in the stairwell to the basement.  Could be tricky
squeezing past the stove to get to it, though.
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Our fire blanket is much more accessible.
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Good thing I never heat up more than a couple of tablespoons of oil.

  we don't cook with much oil either, normally it is a
combination of butter and olive oil.

Potholder fires are much easier to deal with.

  those are sometimes caused here by Mom turning on the
wrong element.  i've done it myself but i don't leave
anything on any element if i'm using the stovetop or the
oven.  the smell of burning potholders is rather horrid.

  the most likely thing to set off the smoke detector here
is the toaster.

  the second most likely thing used to be the people around
us who burned wood.  one smoke detector was sensitive enough
that it would go off some fall/winter evenings.  i replaced
it a few months ago when it started going off at random
times in the middle of the night.  it is far enough up that
it needs a ladder and me walking through too much dust to
get at it.  the smoke detector in my room i can reach on my
tiptoes.


  songbird