Just sharing about my life on the farm.
June 27, 2008 - FIRE! in the Kitchen!
Oh My! God was watching over us today! My husband isn't so sure, LOL... he'd of rather had the entire house burn down! *grin*
I was upstairs on the telephone ordering some SS supplies for church. My daughter was making lunch. She had put a pan of oil on the stove and had a question so came up to ask me. She waited patiently for me to get off the phone... in the meantime, black smoke comes billowing upstairs and we are wondering what is happening.
(here the cupboard you can see is a bit black. We even wiped this... it doesn't come clean. It melted the paint off the hood and the buttons of the hood are melted as well... the only melted items on my spice rack was a bottle of Vit. C tablets!)
We go downstairs (me still on the phone trying to politely finish up my order without saying... goodbye and hanging up). The house is so dark with smoke you couldn't see across it downstairs. Sparks were coming from below the pan. My daughter shuts off the heat and we open windows to clear the air. Once the air is cleared, we come back in to see what happened.
Apparently, the pan of oil caught fire. The front panel of the stove is melted... so that my push button controls no longer work. My pan, my teapot, and some tupperware near the stove are melted and cracked. A bottle of oil that was near the stove is melted and oddly shaped. The stove hood is black and charred... the light cover melted out of it and on the top of the stove. The cupboards are slightly burnt/charred (the one above the hood and the one to the right of the stove. But BLACK soot is all over the entire house! The tile in the kitchen and dining room is questionable as to whether that will clean up... we can't wipe it, it is a soft tile. The tile in the kitchen appears discolored under the soot as well, as if the heat had discolored it as well.
(hood light cover pieces)
We wait for insurance adjusters and a cleaning service to tell us what will clean and what won't. My daughter just feels sick about the situation, but is realizing how she will never do that again. She is so sorry! ... she even learned in home ec what NOT to do, and yet she didn't realize how just slipping away for a short time would cause a fire so quickly. Mom and Dad are just happy no one is hurt. I have much cleaning to do, now... on top of my garden troubles, but we are all fine.
(In this photo, you can see that dh took the ceiling duster and tried to swipe the ceiling... that became black instantly and the part that looks white from his sweep... isn't. It is still fairly gray and sootish looking, despite what the picture is showing. So the gray parts are actually pretty dark black in the house.)
I praised God that we were all safe. I chuckled and said Chelsea... this is a sign from God that we aren't supposed to eat fried foods! She couldn't help but laugh. That was one of my diet changes we plan to make. (less fried foods). I also told her that it is uncommon for a grease fire to put itself out, usually it catches something else on fire and the house starts on fire. I told her that I think God put it out. After all, she was obeying by making lunch. She came and waited patiently and respectfully while I was on the phone... ordering church supplies of all things. She just forgot about what oil could do if left on the stove unattended. God knew that. Even though we have an entire mess of a house to clean up, and we lost our stove and the stove hood... and oven, I guess, too... none of the controls work. God is good to keep us safe.
( these containers both had oil in them. Imagine had they caught fire as well... the tupperware mini pitcher is melted by the handle. The canola oil container is smooth and extended from the heat... instead of molded like the rest of the bottle).
Back to clean up...
(soot. You can tell where we wiped. What you can't tell from most of the photos is even though we wiped, it is still gray on the panelling, not yellow toned like in the photos... because of the flash. The swirly lines in the soot are from Dh vacuuming... the cobwebs were horrendous... really black and he had to clean them up before the adjuster came... I'm like... we've been gone on vacation for 2 weeks... who cares! The soot is on much in the downstairs, the upstairs is less of a mess, so I am thankful for that. For some reason the smoke congregated in the bathroom off the dining room... that room is about as bad as the kitchen. And the smell... well, it isn't going away. I'm sure it will take professional cleaning for that.)
Warmly, ~Melissa
Comments
June 27, 2008 - Untitled Comment
Posted by safords
Oh DEAR! My, well, I am thankful you are all safe and no one is burned. A lesson learned. It could have been far worse.
June 27, 2008 - Untitled Comment
Posted by Isabella
Thank God all is well. I smoke up the house (sometimes). Hope your dd is okay. God Bless. I
June 27, 2008 - Untitled Comment
Posted by GypsyFarmGirl
Wow Awesome is HE !! Yea Grease fires are the worst too so you know HE was there the whole time !!
June 27, 2008 - Hello
Posted by Belle
Hi Melissa,
I am sorry that happened, but I am very glad that you all are all right!
Belle
June 27, 2008 - Untitled Comment
Posted by gabbie427
God certainly was watching over your family and house!!! I am certainly thankful nothing happened to anyone!
God's Blessings,
Amy Jo
June 28, 2008 - <i>Untitled Comment</i>
Posted by Sweetmama2
What did the adjuster have to say?
Hope all goes well. Thank goodness that no one was hurt. My DD has learned not to bother mom on the phone either and to wait patiently. Lesson well taught that sometimes it is good to bother mom and let her knowwhat is going on. Hope that nothing ever happens like this to anyone else.
Blessings
Sweetmama
Edited by Sweetmama2 on June 28, 2008 at 12:00 PM
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