Not my idea of a fun Friday Night/ Saturday am.

[MetalRose]

In case you don't have access to my blogs, the house one over from me burned down last night. Then the one behind it. The fire dept evacuated us due to the close proximity of our houses.

Joey Sky and I are fine, but we are breathing a little harder and coughing a bit.

Let me just say that getting a bang on your door saying, "GET UP FIRE!" at the ass crack of dawn is NOT a fun thing. Especially when you don't know if it's your house and you have your childs friend spending the night.

The embers kept flip flopping we had crews from 5-6 towns on call from about 2-3 am until 7 am putting these fires out:

This one was taken from my driveway:

Aftermath from my back yard:

Not a fun wake up call. Both houses were abandoned (one by only a few weeks) and no one was seriously injured.

-Metal

 

[kellsco]

Glad everyone is ok Metal. Fire is not fun.


I know what you mean about being woke up with a Fireman banging on your door yelling GET OUT! FIRE! GET OUT! Happened to me a few years back, at about 2:30 am, only I live in a townhouse....not a seperate house. Thank the gods they held it to the one unit and didn't let it get out of control and take down the whole row of us.

 

[jaimek]

Ewwww. Glad it wasn't you! Edit: read that the houses were abandoned. Were squatters burning candles?

I've done the FIRE AT A NEIGHBOR'S GET THE HELL OUT routine before - once when I was three, which instilled a lifelong fear of fire, and the second time was two nights before I came home from college - the house three doors down was struck by lightning and caught fire. We had drive-bys checking out the collapsed roof for months.

 

[MetalRose]

Ewwww. Glad it wasn't you! Edit: read that the houses were abandoned. Were squatters burning candles?

I've done the FIRE AT A NEIGHBOR'S GET THE HELL OUT routine before - once when I was three, which instilled a lifelong fear of fire, and the second time was two nights before I came home from college - the house three doors down was struck by lightning and caught fire. We had drive-bys checking out the collapsed roof for months.

Thanks everyone.

They suspect Arson, but aren't 100% positive. We have had a TON of increased traffic today. We are two blocks from a state park, but if you look at the slope of the road, you can tell it's not very well travelled. (People don't believe me when I tell them it's about a 35-45 degree angle slope... until they see it.

I still havent slept from the 2 am wake up call yet either. ...

Kind of scared to tonight. This is the *one* damn time I wish I had someone to cuddle with and tell me it'll all be alright.

Oh well, I'll survive.

-Metal

 

[sh0kr0k]

Wow, Metal! Just.. wow! So glad you and Joey Sky are ok, and that your house wasn't affected! Eventhough it's a shame that it happened, at least there was no one living inside or got hurt! Things that are out of our control are so scary, especially when it has the potential to destroy our lives or hurt loved ones. Thank you so much for letting us know you both are okay! *hugs*

 

[Gunstar9]

Someone must have taken some Symphony X too literally.

All jokes aside, I'm glad you're okay.

 

[Yippee38]

Glad you guys are okay Metal! That's insane!

 

[Dolamite S. Biffle]

Glad to know that you are okay. Thank god you werent sleeping in bubble wrap since that would have equalled instant ignition, lol.

 

[Pellaz]

Thanks everyone.

They suspect Arson, but aren't 100% positive. We have had a TON of increased traffic today. We are two blocks from a state park, but if you look at the slope of the road, you can tell it's not very well travelled. (People don't believe me when I tell them it's about a 35-45 degree angle slope... until they see it.

That's more of a ten-degree slope, judging from your photo, but it's still a helluva grade for vehicles. (35-45 degrees would be realllly steep.)

I still havent slept from the 2 am wake up call yet either. ...

Kind of scared to tonight. This is the *one* damn time I wish I had someone to cuddle with and tell me it'll all be alright.

Oh well, I'll survive.

Hell, yeah, I'm sure. Great blog and writeup on this, too!

 

[J-Dubya 777]

Yikes! Glad everything is ok! Fire sucks!

 

[biggs0072000]

Yeah...being awaken for any kind of emergency is a pain in the ass.

Anyone who's a south Georgia resident can probably recall the great flood of 94 that just completely ripped through the Albany area. I was a kid staying with my mother over the summer (I still lived in Columbus at this point) when our apartment was knocked on by police at dawn, saying that we were in the direct flood path, and to get out then and there. What made it an even crazier experience was watching the news later on, and seeing our apartment completely underwater.

luckily, my copy of Electronic Battleship survived.

 

[DAVETHEMETALGUY]

glad ur ok metal...

 

[MetalRose]

Update:

They DO suspect arson as the house on the corner had NO electricty and NO gas to it.

From what was reported there was a police officer on his way home and smelled smoke. He found the house called the fire department and then went and knocked on doors to wake us up.


There was already a truck on scene by the time I got out as our town's fire department is about a mile from my house. The next thing I knew I counted around 10 fire trucks there... and there were two trucks with cherry pickers. One for each house.

I forgot to link the rest of my images and video too:
The Fire: http://s4.photobucket.com/albums/y126/MetalR0se/McClean Fire 4-26-08/?start=0
The aftermath: http://s4.photobucket.com/albums/y126/MetalR0se/McClean Fire 4-26-08/Videos of the Fire/Aftermath/
The Videos: http://s4.photobucket.com/albums/y126/MetalR0se/McClean Fire 4-26-08/Videos of the Fire/

My mom said I should have been a photo journalist.

Here's about an 8 minute clip of the fires. At about 2:30 or so you can see the fires in both houses.

(I'm standing my driveway taking that video)

-Metal

 

[Dr_Metal]

I'm glad you and the youngin are ok....