Has Your House Ever Caught On Fire?

Mine did like 2 weeks ago... Here's my story...

It was an average Thursday night. I was just chillin' in my room... browsing the Internet on my Wii, when I start hearing this freaky ass alarm go off. I'm like "What the hell is that?" It was coming from the other end of the house. I didn't do anything because I thought it was the house alarm, and that someone else would shut it off. (NOTE: I had NO clue that we even had a fire alarm, thats why I wasn't very curious. So I start smelling something funky... I got up and went to the hall, where the noise was coming from... Oh crap! I see smoke, so my sister walks up, screams, and runs to get my dad (who was outside) he runs in, opens the window, and runs the garden hose into the room, he sprayed and sprayed until the smoke was really thick. I had to run inside to get him out, or he would get smoke inhalation. He says that he thinks he put it out. By this time, there are tons of random faces around me... nosey people from the neighborhood. Great. Next, the fire trucks start pulling in. Long story short, once they leave, there are 2 holes in my roof (courtesy of a chainsaw) and a demolished living room ceiling. Here is a picture:

Everything got patched finally... Now it looks pretty good and needs a coat of paint... but DAMN! Firefighters sure do screw your house over! 

Yeah, when I was like 23, I came home at around 4:30A from being all clubby to find that my apartment building had burned most of the way to the ground. The valuable lesson I learned was always have renter's insurance.xaos

[QUOTE="xaos"]Yeah, when I was like 23, I came home at around 4:30A from being all clubby to find that my apartment building had burned most of the way to the ground. The valuable lesson I learned was always have renter's insurance.Dark__Link

no, but mine was inches away from it, scroll down the blog section of my profile to read about it and see a pic of the house that did2ndWonder

Wow. I read it. That house got charred all right.

[QUOTE="Dark__Link"][QUOTE="xaos"]Yeah, when I was like 23, I came home at around 4:30A from being all clubby to find that my apartment building had burned most of the way to the ground. The valuable lesson I learned was always have renter's insurance.xaos

NO, BUT ONE TIME MY TENT DID

But you laughed at them afterwards, right? :)Dark__Link

[QUOTE="2ndWonder"]no, but mine was inches away from it, scroll down the blog section of my profile to read about it and see a pic of the house that didlcman92

Wow. I read it. That house got charred all right.

Wow your lucky your family is self and not much huge damage was done. Can you show a after pic if possible?lugiemojeed

Yeah... Here ya go... Still needs paint lol.

What I wanna know, is that how the hell did it get started?rishi44

Well, it started because we have, or should I say had, an OLD SCHOOL gas heater, and... its located right next to the closet (the heater is in the wall) and i'm not really sure of the details, but the heater is what caused it.