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back to work today! Fun Fun Fun

seth's play at school

Went watch my boy today at his class play. It was something about rainbows???

health

Went to teh doc today because of difficulty breathing! Dang smoke inhilation!

As you all know Randy gave me the flu Thursday and I have been on my azz since,,,,,,,, until last night. As I was soaking in the tub regulating my fever when all of a sudden my wife starts beating on the door screaming that the attic is on fire. I flew out of the tub and grabbed some shorts, a fire extinguisher, and a flash light. When I opened the attic door – believe me when I say I did not need a flash light. I have never seen my attic so lit before – it was on fire. The fire was about 30 yards from the attic door and the smoke was thick. I knew I had one shot at this. I held my breath and low crawled (low ceilings) close enough to where I knew the dry chemical would hit it. On the way there I scraped nails from the roof on my head, smacked my head on a cross beam and scratched the hell out of my back on another cross beam. I pulled the pin and started spraying until the bottle was just about out and then the flames were out. I couldn’t hold my breath any longer and inhaled some smoke, then gagged and puked while retreating for the exit. At this point I wondered if I should have even attempted to put this out. Well after the gagging and eye burns were over I knew that the danger was far from over, so I got a huge fan and had it blowing out of the attic – pulling the smoke out. It actually cleared the smoke out quickly – maybe because of the ridge vent in the roof - and I went straight back in there to pull out the smoldering pink insulation – which was what was on fire. After that was all cleared and safe from restarting – I was gagging and choking pretty badly – because when I started ripping the insulation back – all the dry chemical was getting stirred up in the air along with fiber glass dust and I was just trying not to breath it but couldn’t help it. I am going get checked out again in the morning because I have been profusely coughing all day - along with running a mild fever.

This was definitely an eye opener for all of us at home. My 9 year old daughter was in the tub at the time and said the light went out then came back on slightly – well the slightly was the fire and the light going out was the breaker tripping. From what I can tell from the picture, it appears that the wires coming out of the bathroom heater shorted then caught my pink insulation on fire. This baffles me, because I thought fiber glass does not burn - BS.  The pink insulation is not in the picture because I ripped it out – but it was packed against the light / vent / heater assembly pretty tightly – however the next install will have at least 10 inches free all around. I don’t know why this happened all of a sudden because I installed this heater six years ago? I will definitely bring it for our next safety meeting.  I will eventually put a fire alarm up in the attic just in case.

…and that’s one to grow on!