EEP! Fire across the street

Postby **Mithrandir** » Tue Oct 11, 2005 5:54 pm

Hey All,
If the board goes off-line for no apparent reason tonight, I just thought I'd keep you all informed. The appartment complex across the street is on fire, and we don't know if we're going to have to evacuate or not. If I *do* have to, I'll yank the server out of the wall and throw it in the car.

Just FYI

- Mith

Postby **Scribs** » Tue Oct 11, 2005 6:00 pm

Ooh, that sounds problematic. I hope that that does not become nessisary. Thanks for the heads up.

Postby **ShiroiHikari** » Tue Oct 11, 2005 6:07 pm

Oh my :[

Postby **Felix** » Tue Oct 11, 2005 6:10 pm

Uh oh. I'll keep that in mind. I hope everything will be fine.

Postby **Arnobius** » Tue Oct 11, 2005 6:25 pm

Well, being safe is the important thing. Hope you don't wind up out of a home... it's no fun.

Website · Postby **Alice** » Tue Oct 11, 2005 6:31 pm

'k. We'll pray for you guys.

Postby **Stephen** » Tue Oct 11, 2005 6:32 pm

*laughs* I can so see you doing that man. Everyone hang tight, Mith just tossed CAA in his car and is speeding away from the flames.

HitomiYuriko · Postby **SP1** » Tue Oct 11, 2005 6:39 pm

Oh,

And here I had this vision of racks upon racks of servers running in a clean room in a secret underground complex. Slavishly tended by a legion of techs living lives of monastic asceticism.

Postby **firestorm** » Tue Oct 11, 2005 6:43 pm

I'lll for your safety and those across the street and where you live.

Postby **Yumie** » Tue Oct 11, 2005 7:16 pm

I'll pray that the situation will stay under control and that the peeps across the street from you will be OK and all that jazz.

Postby **Mithrandir** » Tue Oct 11, 2005 7:26 pm

Looks like we're not in any danger. The news helecopters finally left, so I KNOW there's no chance of a flare up.

Quite a bit of excitement though!

EDIT: Oh yeah. Doesn't look like anyone was hurt, either.

Postby **Myoti** » Tue Oct 11, 2005 7:41 pm

If anything did happen, just turn the server upon the flames and our combined forces would have put it out instantly. :grin:

Postby **Scribs** » Tue Oct 11, 2005 7:53 pm

well thats good news

Postby **TheMelodyMaker** » Tue Oct 11, 2005 8:02 pm

It still doesn't explain why I couldn't get on this morning. :sweat:

I'm glad all's well, though.

Postby **Mithrandir** » Tue Oct 11, 2005 8:10 pm

Myoti wrote:If anything did happen, just turn the server upon the flames and our combined forces would have put it out instantly.

But hot air FANS flames, remember?

Postby **firestorm** » Tue Oct 11, 2005 8:16 pm

Mithrandir wrote:But hot air FANS flames, remember?

LOL ha ha

Postby **uc pseudonym** » Wed Oct 12, 2005 8:41 am

...and I come to this thread after everything is done. Well, I'm glad that you and everyone else is safe.

Postby **Chocobo777** » Wed Oct 12, 2005 9:59 am

scary

Postby **Tenshi no Ai** » Wed Oct 12, 2005 2:18 pm

TheMelodyMaker wrote:It still doesn't explain why I couldn't get on this morning. I'm glad all's well, though.

Hmm and yet I've been trying to log into the chat all day and can't make it in for some reason >_< *wonders if it's due to getting a surprise ban 0_0... or maybe just need a new thing from Java?* ...or is it just down? :/

Postby **Nate** » Wed Oct 12, 2005 2:20 pm

Chat seems to be down, Tenshi. There's a thread about it in the Comment Box, I'm sure Mith will see it when he gets on tonight.

Postby **Tenshi no Ai** » Wed Oct 12, 2005 2:25 pm

Oh good so it's not just me! ^^ been here for so long and still never realized there was a comment box >_<

Website · Postby **Alice** » Wed Oct 12, 2005 4:46 pm

Mithrandir wrote:But hot air FANS flames, remember?

Woah... zinged.

Postby **Mithrandir** » Wed Oct 12, 2005 6:18 pm

Four posts. I didn't know so many people used the chat. :lol:

Edit: Fixed.

Postby **The Last Bard** » Wed Oct 12, 2005 6:57 pm

Their was a fire around these parts a few days ago...In a apartment, and three people died. Pretty sad.
At least everyone is okay with the fire where you are at.

Postby **Myoti** » Thu Oct 13, 2005 2:01 pm

But hot air FANS flames, remember?

I resent that. -_-

Postby **Eriana** » Thu Oct 13, 2005 3:38 pm

Oxygen does feed fires. Ever blow on one and notice it gets brighter and larger? I learned that a long time ago. Not that any of you are stupid and wouldn't know this sort of thing so please don't hit me. ^^;;;

Postby **ashfire** » Thu Oct 13, 2005 6:13 pm

I can remember the many times we would be sitting in the station and hear the 3 beeps to alert for a Box Alarm which would be a large fire or large rescue assignment. If the dispatcher said "Across from" a address we could about say we are in for a working fire. There would be times we roll out the whole station on a call. Wagon, pumper, ambulance and chief. If we could get away with it the brush unit just for man power.
Now a days we are down to just a few people and might get two to three on the Wagon and the chief coming from home. If we had the crew we had years ago and empty the house it would be Wagon, pumper, ladder truck, ambulance, brush unit and the chief. Our sub station would be Wagon, pumper, heavy rescue, ambulance, maybe the medic unit and the assit chief. With the county dispatch system as it is now they will only dispatch one unit from a station and the rest sit unless requested.
When I started I was a back step rider and then things changed when accidents were taking their toll on firefighters riding on the back. Open cab units were also a problem so they started enclosing the cabs on fire apparatus and making everyone wear seat belts.
Things do change.

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