Fire 2 door down
janmike
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There is a house on fire 2 doors down from ours. 4 trucks on the scene and it is really blazing. With -30+ temps. it is not pretty.
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Neighbors have been evacuated and are at our place. I come in to get warm for 10 min. Does not look good.Michael
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Bummer,,, hope everyone is safe,,can you even pump water on a fire in that extreme temp?JC approves....he told me so. (F-1 nut)
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You can. -38 outside tonight. First house is totally engulfed and they are trying to protect our neighbor's from catching. Real close to ours and if it starts we are next.Michael
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I'd say, start hosing down the side of your house, but would that work for you in this weather?"He who fights with monsters should look to it that he himself does not become a monster. And when you gaze long into an abyss the abyss also gazes into you." Friedrich Nietzsche
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Michael,, I'll keep your family and neighbors in my thoughts and prayers,,stay safe--georgeJC approves....he told me so. (F-1 nut)
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Damn, that sucks. I hope they contain the fire quickly. Fighting a fire in those temps can't be easy.Political Correctness'.........defined
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did it melt the snow? then freeze like an ice rink from the water used to fight the fire?
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Fire is out, but the guys will be out there most of the night. The neighbors are at our place for the night as there house has too much smoke in it. Close one.Michael
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Ah, some good news anyway. I had your number dialed up and was ready to push the button, but I thought twice about it as I figured ya'll probably had enough going on.Political Correctness'.........defined
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Thanks Jesse, We will connect on the weekend. It's been a long night.Michael
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Ouch, thankfully it's out and everyone is safe.
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Glad everyone is safe. Fighting fires in freezing temps suck.
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Glad you are alright, and nobody got hurt. We had a brush fire develope in a wash behind a house we used to rent, that was some scary ****. It's unbelieveable how far away you can feel the heat.Source: Bluesound Node 2i - Preamp/DAC: Benchmark DAC2 DX - Amp: Parasound Halo A21 - Speakers: MartinLogan Motion 60XTi - Shop Rig: Yamaha A-S501 Integrated - Shop Spkrs: Elac Debut 2.0 B5.2
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Winter eh! When it gets cold like that, the fires start.
A few years back, a late night at a friend's house drinking, a buddy mine starts yelling FIRE, FIRE. Scared the crap out of all us and it turns out the house across the street was fully engulfed, a couple of people passed away. I never found how it started but it was a very cold night too.
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Great to hear your OK. Prayer's sent for neighbor who lost home.
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We had a fire in our home about 15 yrs ago. It could have been tragic but it all came out ok. We were awakened by our smoke detectors which if they haden't been working we certainly would have lost our daughter as it was her room the fire started in.
The reason I am responding is to pass along a little of my experience with hopes that it may help your neighbor. He needs to secure his home now to the best of his ability. If the board up service hasn't arrived get one its covered by his insurance.
Over the next few days he should anticipate a bunch of people showing up and some will claim that they are working for his insurance company. Warn him to not let anyone in to the house under any circumstances without direct communication from his claim adjuster. Notice I said claim adjuster. His agent is now worhtless to him as the adjuster is now God. All the details for recovering his loss now rests with the adjuster and his agent is not allowed to influence them.
let your neighbor know that to recover on his claim he must present the claim to the adjuster. Your neighbor (s) need to prepare a "loss" list that they are claiming right down to the toothbrushes. If its not claimed on the loss they won't be compensated.
To keep it short .......... if he has any salvagealbe valuables he needs to get them identified and stowed some place safe. After our fire there were several occasions when our home was broken in to. We were told by the police and fire marshals that the newspapers are a source for criminals out there to identify places that may be easy targets. Obits are another.
If your neighbors fire was as significant as it sounds they have a bumpy road ahead just tell them to make decisions with their heads and not their hearts. The adjusters job is not to help them recover their losses, its to settle the claim as cheaply as possible. I can tell hours of horror stories and near murder for the poor treatment we recieved from our insurance company.
I won't name our previous insurance company but it was one of the known big three. We are now insured by Fireman's fund. We had to hire a private adjuster at our expense to protect us from our insurance company and its unscrupolous adjusters. He told us that if the world of insurance is a sewer then our company was the sewer and that the other big two were the sewer covers. FWIWHome Theater
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Fires suck worst then anything in this world IMHO you can lose everything, leaving you with nothing. Been there it was my house on fire once "Electric Blanket" and I will not allow this in my house ever again. My wife understands this rule and never got one thank god.
Glad you're safe Mike and nothing happened to your house.
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We had a fire in our home about 15 yrs ago. It could have been tragic but it all came out ok. We were awakened by our smoke detectors which if they haden't been working we certainly would have lost our daughter as it was her room the fire started in.
The reason I am responding is to pass along a little of my experience with hopes that it may help your neighbor. He needs to secure his home now to the best of his ability. If the board up service hasn't arrived get one its covered by his insurance.
Over the next few days he should anticipate a bunch of people showing up and some will claim that they are working for his insurance company. Warn him to not let anyone in to the house under any circumstances without direct communication from his claim adjuster. Notice I said claim adjuster. His agent is now worhtless to him as the adjuster is now God. All the details for recovering his loss now rests with the adjuster and his agent is not allowed to influence them.
let your neighbor know that to recover on his claim he must present the claim to the adjuster. Your neighbor (s) need to prepare a "loss" list that they are claiming right down to the toothbrushes. If its not claimed on the loss they won't be compensated.
To keep it short .......... if he has any salvagealbe valuables he needs to get them identified and stowed some place safe. After our fire there were several occasions when our home was broken in to. We were told by the police and fire marshals that the newspapers are a source for criminals out there to identify places that may be easy targets. Obits are another.
If your neighbors fire was as significant as it sounds they have a bumpy road ahead just tell them to make decisions with their heads and not their hearts. The adjusters job is not to help them recover their losses, its to settle the claim as cheaply as possible. I can tell hours of horror stories and near murder for the poor treatment we recieved from our insurance company.
I won't name our previous insurance company but it was one of the known big three. We are now insured by Fireman's fund. We had to hire a private adjuster at our expense to protect us from our insurance company and its unscrupolous adjusters. He told us that if the world of insurance is a sewer then our company was the sewer and that the other big two were the sewer covers. FWIW
I take a shot at it "State Farm"
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That would be a "cover", its close, it has the name "state" in it.Home Theater
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Everything ok here at our place. Put the neighbors up for the night and their house plus the house on the other side of the one on fire have both water and smoke damage. Nobody hurt at all.Michael
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Wow I'm late to this thread Mike. I'm glad everyone and everything is okay.
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Damn,, too close,,glad everyone's ok.JC approves....he told me so. (F-1 nut)
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hearingimpared wrote: »Wow I'm late to this thread Mike. I'm glad everyone and everything is okay.
Me too. Glad you are OK.Sharp Elite 70
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Wow man that was a big inferno. Glad it did not spread thats a fire that can take out a couple of blocks if its windy enough. You have a good fire dept to keep that contained. Again glad no one got hurt
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Glad you, your family and house are alright. That was very good of you to put up the neighbors for a while. Interesting pic - really hits hard that it doesn't take much to flip your world upside down in a night.
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I leave Wednesday morning and will be in Vancouver until the morning of Feb 1. I guess I can leave my goose down parka at home.Michael
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