Hopefully you weren't seriously hurt or anyone you care about was hurt in that fire, Praxius.8O
9 years old.... house burned down around me, I was the only one in it. I got out intact on my own with no injuries but we lost a few pets in the process. 5 tanks of fish, two hampsters and a cockatiel...... oh and the house of course. The fire apparently started from an electrical shortage in the stove
(There's an even more interesting story that goes along with that in regards to a few other homes that caught fire around where I lived, but I'll save that for another time.)
The cockatiel survived though as it flew out the door when the firemen opened it. Some guy called up on the lost and found saying they found a cockatiel, described it perfectly, but then when my dad called him up, he changed his story and said it was brown, not gray...... he must have had enough time to see how tame the bird was. Stick your finger out and he'd fly right to it and start singing.
Oh well.... so long as he was taken care of decently, it's all good.
However in keeping with the fire stories, my dad told me one time when he was in university he and my uncle came accross a car accident where it was on fire. A guy was trapped inside screaming, but the fire was so intense they couldn't get near to save him. He claimed that the smell of a burning human is probably one of the worst smells he ever had to experience.
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Oh and some might be wondering why a 9 year old was left at home alone.
My parents headed off to get geroceries, were sick and tired of trying to manage us three kids at the same time, and told us all to go out and play with our friends while they were gone. Of course, I wasn't around when they said this, as I ran downstairs to watch TV, so as far as I knew, everybody was still home and as far as they knew, I already headed out to hang out with friends like I normally do.
