Hey so I’m not gonna make this long, but I really wanted to discuss what just happened to me with all of you and give you a warning.
Last night I went to bed and nothing was wrong, little did I know how close of a call I would have.
I woke up to an awful smell, from my conservatory, I’m greeted to is black soot, EVERYWHERE.
Covering all the windows, the doors, the furniture, everything.
And the charred remains of one of our solar generators.
We’re still not sure what happened but a wire had essentially caught alight and burnt one of the generators and wires surrounding it.
We had a literal fire and we had NO IDEA, why? Because we had one fire alarm and it was broken.
I can’t even begin to convey just how luck to we were, in that conservatory we had paper, cardboard, wood and styrofoam not to mention tons of other flammable objects.
Thank god none of them caught alight otherwise I’m not sure I would even be here right now writing this.
The firefighters said we were so lucky, and it could have been much worse, only some scorching on the stone.
But anyway I can’t stress enough the need to make sure you keep your fire alarms in good order or if you don’t have one, please get one, it very well could one day save your life.
I was always ‘this would never happen to me’, but it did, from now on you can bet I’m going to make sure that my fire alarm is in good condition and also buy another one, one fire alarm is not enough.
Another tip, if you have any loose wiring get it looked asap, one spark is all it takes.
I know I sound pushy but I don’t want any of you to go through what we went through, I mean the firemen were very blunt on just how lucky we were, like a real one in a million chance.