This is how Maranda greeted my on the phone today at 4:30pm. She followed this statement with, "yeah, the fire department is here and there are men on the roof and in the basement." Yikes, talk about getting your attention! As I raced out of work she was talking with the firemen and the whole story slowly came out.
Apparently our boiler is past maintenance and had built up a lot of oil vapor due to misfiring, and then when the vapor combusted the boiler "belched" a ton of soot and smoke out the chimney. As Maranda was scrambling upstairs to get Kieran in case something was going to blow, the neighbor saw the black smoke and called the firestation.
By the time I was halfway home the fire department had verified that there was no actual fire, just a lot of soot. Our oil company is sending someone out tonight to do maintenance on the boiler, so we will have hot water again. Sheesh...what a scare!
Update: Kieran is now asking "fire trucks again pleeeese"
2 comments:
that story is GREAT.. hehe... Keiran will probably talk about it for months! :)
so glad the house wasn't actually on fire!
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