Risking Life and Limb

[SkydiveStMarys 0]

Ok...here's the scenario....

Your house is on fire.....you have gotten you rig, your family, & your pets out of the house, along with important paper work, and the car too, has been backed out of the garage. What is the other "things" you would go back into a burning building for?

For me.....One thing would be...the photos (some 200 of them) that were just given to me by my father.....there is a really old pic of my grandmother (she passed away back in '81 at the age of 77) when she was two...priceless to me.

Bobbi

A miracle is not defined by an event. A miracle is defined by gratitude.

[PLFXpert 0]

I love that you would go back for that.

I am not materially sentimental. I don't have many old photos, at all, and I think I even threw away my yearbooks when they were all in a heavy-box that was a pain in the ass to move when I bought my house

I save the cards my hunny gives me (he writes the sweetest things) but I'm pretty sure I wouldn't run into a burning house for them. Afterall, I still have my hunny
You mentioned the only things I think I would run into my burning home for---MY PETS AND HUNNY.

I don't even think I'd back the car out, and my important paperwork is not kept in the house. And if you didn't mention my rig, I don't think I'd run in for that, either.

Perhaps I think too logically---my insurance company is aware of the value of my skydiving gear and everything else. Of course, I LOVE my rig, but I'm not willinng to suffer potential burns over it.

Paint me in a corner, but my color comes back.

[waltappel 1]

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Ok...here's the scenario....

Your house is on fire.....you have gotten you rig, your family, & your pets out of the house, along with important paper work, and the car too, has been backed out of the garage. What is the other "things" you would go back into a burning building for?

For me.....One thing would be...the photos (some 200 of them) that were just given to me by my father.....there is a really old pic of my grandmother (she passed away back in '81 at the age of 77) when she was two...priceless to me.

Bobbi

That's easy--my PCs. I have a lot of important (to me) data on there.

My paintings.

Walt

[PLFXpert 0]

That's true...it would suck to loose the data. I keep the back-up CD's right on top of my desk, so they would be easy to grab in a hurry. I wouldn't 'grab my actual PC though. I'd love to see this piece of shit burn

<---is getting a whole new office soon

Paint me in a corner, but my color comes back.

[SkydiveStMarys 0]

The way I look at these photos are that they are a piece of history for my children....

I lost both sets of grandparents at an early age (if your grandparents are alive you are sooooo lucky). I know I have memories of them but to be able to hold something in your hand, even if its just a pic, and look into a pair of eyes that some how seem to be looking back at you...a moment of time captured forever, even when the person is long gone, well to me that is just very important. My kids never had an oppurtunity to meet these people, all of my grandparents were quite the interesting person and the stories that go along with each picture is something that I can share with my kids and their memory thru those stories will have them live on forever.

I'm a sentimental fool.

Bobbi

A miracle is not defined by an event. A miracle is defined by gratitude.

[SkydiveStMarys 0]

I'm sorry I just had a little laugh picturing you running out of your apartment carrying those portraits all the while nude.
I know how important they are to you.

Bobbi

A miracle is not defined by an event. A miracle is defined by gratitude.

[PLFXpert 0]

I completely understand and think that's so sweet

Paint me in a corner, but my color comes back.

[waltappel 1]

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I'm sorry I just had a little laugh picturing you running out of your apartment carrying those portraits all the while nude.
I know how important they are to you.

Bobbi

Ok, I have to ask. Did you picture me naked and with an erection running out of my apartment with the paintings so that I would *really* look like a freak?

The paintings are important to me because of their beauty. The world needs beauty. Me running naked carrying paintings, well I doubt that would be beautiful. The paintings themselves, though? Yep--waaaaaay beautiful.

Walt

[New2Blue 0]

I would quite likely risk my life to get my beat up ol' Jeep into the burning garage.

[Feeblemind 1]

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Ok...here's the scenario....

Your house is on fire.....you have gotten you rig, your family, & your pets out of the house, along with important paper work, and the car too, has been backed out of the garage. What is the other "things" you would go back into a burning building for?

For me.....One thing would be...the photos (some 200 of them) that were just given to me by my father.....there is a really old pic of my grandmother (she passed away back in '81 at the age of 77) when she was two...priceless to me.

Bobbi

Okay, Now I have to chime in and be the asshole here. Hopefully you took the above mentioned items on your way out of the house after you smoke detector notified you about the fire. NEVER, NEVER, NEVER, go back into a burning house once you have gotten out safely. People re-entering burning structure fires are one of the number one causes of fire related DEATHS!! Let us do our job which is to protect life and property, instead of making us have to rescue your butt. The time we spend performing a rescue is time lost for fire extinguishment and property preservation. Be smart, stay alive and don't become a statistic. Risking Life and Limb is my and many other trained individuals job, let us do it with the proper equipment so we can be effective.

If you have items that are considered priceless (especially photos) spend a few bucks and get them reproduced. Display the reproductions and store the originals in a safety deposit box or fire safe.

Edited to add: as you are exiting the home close all doors as you go, this will limit the spread of the fire and reduce it's intensity. Also, a fire triples in size for every minute it burns. Smoke from burning home furnishings (i.e. plastic and foam) is extremely toxic and last but not least the carbon monoxide that is present in every structure fire (thus the reason we wear self contained breathing apparatus).

It's hard to watch you home and memories destroyed, but I would rather have you emotionally devastated instead of arriving to hear your kids screaming "MY DADDY"S IN THERE, HE WENT IN FOR THE PHOTO ALBUM!!!" and having them see us bringing your charred, lifeless body from the burning building they called home.

Fire Safety Tip: Don't fry bacon while naked

[SkydiveStMarys 0]

Thank you...but I already have one mother....


I know, I know....


Bobbi

A miracle is not defined by an event. A miracle is defined by gratitude.

[PLFXpert 0]

I took it as my hypothetical, as in "ideally" what could you save, not literally

Paint me in a corner, but my color comes back.

[Feeblemind 1]

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I took it as my hypothetical, as in "ideally" what could you save, not literally

Unfortunately ones hypothetical is anothers reality

Fire Safety Tip: Don't fry bacon while naked

[lisamariewillbe 1]

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Unfortunately ones hypothetical is anothers reality

DEFINITLY...

Kids die in fires because they are scared of being rescued

People die in fires because they try to save cats

My first fire the woman wanted us to save her fish tank. Her fish tank...

People respond poorly when in the situation even with training.

People can and do get lost in their own house when it is completley pitch black with smoke, the mind is not able to fuction in that enviroment, lungs burn with every breathe and every breathe isnt enough

Sudsy Fist: i don't think i'd ever say this
Sudsy Fist: but you're looking damn sudsydoable in this

[SkydiveStMarys 0]

Ok y'all are taking this waaaay to literally....if you HAD A CHANCE to go back in...what would you get.


Humph..


Bobbi

A miracle is not defined by an event. A miracle is defined by gratitude.

[lisamariewillbe 1]

I got my cat, a few seconds before I passed out. So I wouldnt get anything.

Sudsy Fist: i don't think i'd ever say this
Sudsy Fist: but you're looking damn sudsydoable in this

[upndownshop 0]

I am with you. I would go and get as much of the 40 years of Skydiving history photos, reports, stats from PCA and USPA that my parents have generated.

Then I would probably get yelled at by a fireman with great advice knowing that he is right, but...

[PLFXpert 0]

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People die in fires because they try to save cats

An honorable death

For me, seriously

Paint me in a corner, but my color comes back.

[Feeblemind 1]

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Ok y'all are taking this waaaay to literally....if you HAS A CHANCE to go back in...what would you get.


Humph..


Bobbi

What were trying to relay to you is that conditions in a fire change rapidly. What you see as "a Chance to go back in" will most likely result a chance for the individual to visit the hospital or Morge. You are saying I am taking this to literally. Well, yes I am. You started the thread and folks are reading it. Another part of my job is to educate whether it is at a school full of 5 year olds or here.

Stay Safe,

Phil

Fire Safety Tip: Don't fry bacon while naked

[PLFXpert 0]

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educate whether it is at a school full of 5 year olds

Stop. Drop. And Roll.

Paint me in a corner, but my color comes back.

[L.O. 0]

My video equipment. My computer ,it's got 8-10hrs of skydive video, Most of which has been erased. We keep all the pic's of the kids in one big chest, that would be the first thing to get on the way out the door,even before the rigs. I have very good home owners ins., and I keep my rigs at the DZ. of coarse the insurance company wouldn't know that.

HPDBs, I hate those guys.
AFB, charter member.

[cocheese 0]

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Ok y'all are taking this waaaay to literally....if you HAD A CHANCE to go back in...what would you get.
Humph..
Bobbi

I'd have to find the pic of you here and print it. ( I'm wearing a fireman's suit and oxygen tank)

[New2Blue 0]

So then I shouldn't try to get my jeep into the burning garage?

What if I put a smoke detector in my jeep?

[SkydiveStMarys 0]

Oh JC! Cut me a break!! Really I know all of what you are saying....I wouldn't go back in myself...I just saying IF I COULD, this what I would go back in to get!!

This is more like a philosophical question rather then a "practical" question, it is after all The Bonfire forum!!

Bobbi

A miracle is not defined by an event. A miracle is defined by gratitude.

[Iceburner 0]

if you really wanna get rid of the jeep that bad, get a few jumpers, a C-130, and go over the desert and be creative