Never a Dull Moment!

[dizzojay]

This was the view outside my back door earlier this evening!

My neighbour's garage was on fire, or at least his car in it was on fire.  I was alerted by another neighbour hammering on my door, and I called the fire brigade but someone had already called them, and within five minutes, we had two fire engines on the doorstep.

Luckily, no-one was harmed, and no property was damaged - apart from my neighbour's car which is an incinerated shell.

I was concerned for my fence because I that's the one way the flames could have travelled far enough to have reached either of our houses - I could see the flames licking over the top of it - but it looks okay, maybe just a bit smoke blackened!

Now, the firefighters and the fire investigator have all gone, and things have all calmed down back to normal, well except that everything inside and outside my house smells of smoke!

Comments

[casey28.livejournal.com]

Yikes! That's a lot of smoke. I'm glad no one was hurt. I hope the smoke smell clears out of your house quickly!

[dizzojay.livejournal.com]

The smoke smell has pretty much gone now, thankfully.
All is well, no damage except for my fence looking a bit smoke blackened along the top. :)
x

[herminekurotowa.livejournal.com]

That was a close shave O.O Glad no one got hurt.

[dizzojay.livejournal.com]

No, thankfully. It's amazing how easy it is to forget that sometimes!

[stir-of-echoes.livejournal.com]

Yikes I'm so glad no one was hurt and that you're okay!

[dizzojay.livejournal.com]

Thank you, yes, all things considered, it could have been so much worse!

[sillie]

Eek! Glad everyone's okay.

[dizzojay.livejournal.com]

Everyone's fine thank you!

[fairyniamh]

Sweet Mother Hubbard... at least no one was hurt, even if it does smell like smoke. Stay safe.

[dizzojay.livejournal.com]

Thank you, everyone's fine thank you!

[sasha-dragon.livejournal.com]

Wow! That's not something you see everyday, at least everyone was safe and there wasn't too much harm done.

[dizzojay.livejournal.com]

Exactly. Everything except my neighbour's car seems to have survived the ordeal unscathed (except for being a little bit smoke-blackened!)

[julchen11.livejournal.com]

I'm glad you're all ok, my dear. Goodness! You are feeling good, I hope?

[dizzojay.livejournal.com]

As I said to Sasha above, apart from my fence being a little bit sooty, everything (apart from my neighbour's poor car) is fine and unharmed!

[jj1564.livejournal.com]

Good grief, that must have been scary! And the smell of smoke takes ages to go. Thank goodness no one was hurt and there wasn't too much damage. Good old fire brigade!

[dizzojay.livejournal.com]

Thankfully the smoke smell has finally gone!
Yes, we were very grateful to the Fire Brigade, they were on the scene in minutes :)