So last night I was making dinner. It was almost ready I just needed to cook the corn. I boiled the water on the stove and I think there was something that was spilled on the stove because there was a little bit of smoke. I opened the window (we do that here in January) and pulled out the frozen corn. Dang it! The corn was frozen in one huge hunk. I stood there for a moment trying to chisel away at the corn when I suddenly heard a loud buzzing noise and then a small explosion came from my stove.
It looked like the whole burner was on fire and sparks flew all over my kitchen. Not small sparks either. I seriously thought "houses burn down all the time, now it's happening to me." I'm a little disturbed by how unclear my thinking was though. I always thought that in an emergency everything would come to me to know what to do. Not so. I didn't hesitate however to yell at the kids to get out of the house. However, as I said my thinking wasn't clear because the kids were already playing outside. I just stood there for a moment thinking "where is the dang fire extinguisher" (Under the sink in the very back behind the detergent, grocery bag and cleaning supplies. Maybe I should move it to somewhere a little more accessible). Luckily for me the explosion had burned a hole in my pot (Seriously, it burned a hole in my metal pot. Who has ever heard of that happening?), and the water poured out of the pot and put the fire out.
I am thankful that none of the sparks hit me, or the roll of paper towels, or the pile of grocery ads, or anything else flammable.
I am thankful that my corn was frozen in a huge hunk so that my hand wasn't directly over the pot pouring the corn in when it caught fire.
I am thankful that my pot of water put out the fire by itself.
I am thankful that Murphy's law doesn't hold true. So many things could have gone wrong and they didn't. I didn't even have to use the fire extinguisher.
I'm thankful that my house is still standing and my family is all safe.
I am thankful that I have better incentive to prepare for a fire (yes, I moved the fire extinguisher).
It looked like the whole burner was on fire and sparks flew all over my kitchen. Not small sparks either. I seriously thought "houses burn down all the time, now it's happening to me." I'm a little disturbed by how unclear my thinking was though. I always thought that in an emergency everything would come to me to know what to do. Not so. I didn't hesitate however to yell at the kids to get out of the house. However, as I said my thinking wasn't clear because the kids were already playing outside. I just stood there for a moment thinking "where is the dang fire extinguisher" (Under the sink in the very back behind the detergent, grocery bag and cleaning supplies. Maybe I should move it to somewhere a little more accessible). Luckily for me the explosion had burned a hole in my pot (Seriously, it burned a hole in my metal pot. Who has ever heard of that happening?), and the water poured out of the pot and put the fire out.
I am thankful that none of the sparks hit me, or the roll of paper towels, or the pile of grocery ads, or anything else flammable.
I am thankful that my corn was frozen in a huge hunk so that my hand wasn't directly over the pot pouring the corn in when it caught fire.
I am thankful that my pot of water put out the fire by itself.
I am thankful that Murphy's law doesn't hold true. So many things could have gone wrong and they didn't. I didn't even have to use the fire extinguisher.
I'm thankful that my house is still standing and my family is all safe.
I am thankful that I have better incentive to prepare for a fire (yes, I moved the fire extinguisher).
Seriously, How does this happen? I'm a little worried that it could happen again?
8 comments:
Wow! That's super scary Allison! I'm glad you all are well. I wonder what caused the pot to melt....spooky...
~Anna~
That is so scary! It would make me leery too.
So many things to be thankful for! Truly! Glad you still have a whole body and a home.
Hi Allison...wow! The heating coil went bad and acted as a welder. I believe that is the same principle. So don't use that burner anymore. It probably doesn't work anyway because it basicaly shorted out. I think you can just pull out that burner and replace it...shouldn't be too expensive or hard to do. Let me know the final outcome. Danny
Yikes!!! I'm so glad you are all safe.
WOW! That's a CRAZY story! I can't even hardly believe it, the photo's are insane. I'm so glad everything was fine in the end!
I am laughing at your calmness in realizing, "Houses burn down all the time and now it's happening to me" like you are sitting down to eat a sandwich. Too funny. Glad it all turned out okay in the end! And I hope Hyrum is feeling better soon! (Heard he was home sick today...)
That is too scary! Looks like John needs to get you a new stove! :) Glad you are ok.
Glad to hear everything is ok - that stuff scares me. If I think too much about that sort of thing I end-up not sleeping at night!
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