okay... so I go home for tea tonight and find out we're having a BBQ. Cool, no worries. So I head down to the study to talk to my younger sister (opposite end of the house to the patio where the BBQ is located) I then heard raised voices and Mum calling out... "Dad needs help, the BBQ is on fire"

 

So we go running out and the gas bottle is on fire, can't turn it off as there are flames everywhere, and Dad's freaking out, Mum's freaking out and my sister and I are like 'OMG'. The smell of gas is overwhelming and there is smoke and huge flames.

 

So we grab the fire blanket and extinguisher... try the blanket first... no luck, then the fire extinguisher... no luck. The problem is the gas is still coming out and without stopping that... the fire won't go out. So we keep the blanket on and Mum calls the fire brigade. They said we have done the right thing and to get inside to the other end of the house. Dad is out their trying to move stuff and Mum's yelling at him to get away. At this stage the FULL GAS bottle is hissing with a very high pitch and sounded like it was gonna blow!

 

So, I run out the front to move my car in case the need to get close and I hear sirens... I run inside to hide from embarrassment...

 

So... a fire engine come screaming up the court, light going, sirens screaming. They get here and the two blokes go out the back to where Dad is. At this stage the fire has actually gone out. They put on their gloves turn the gas off and check out what happened... meanwhile...

 

another fire engine turned up. Now my sister and I were in the bedrooms peeking out from under the blinds in fits of laughter that two fire engines had turned up... we start having a discussion when low and behold... another one comes :hap:

 

So... we have a small controlled fire and three fire engines. Obviously it was a quiet night in town. I get that an exploding gas bottle is a serious situation... and if it had of gone up, our house, the next door neighbours and my birds would have been toast... but at the same time it was oh so funny...

 

The conclusion... we had a fault gas pipe-bit that connects the gas bottle to the BBQ. It had a hole in it.

 

* side note... there will be no more BBQ's at our house in a long time!*

Far out!!! I'm very glad it didn't blow up!!

Far out!!! I'm very glad it didn't blow up!!

 

SO AM I!!!! :hap: Needless to say we finished cooking tea inside! :hap:

Whoa that's scary!

Far out!!! I'm very glad it didn't blow up!!

 

SO AM I!!!! :hap: Needless to say we finished cooking tea inside! :hap:

 

 

Brave indeed, I would've rang for Pizza!

Far out!!! I'm very glad it didn't blow up!!

 

SO AM I!!!! :hap: Needless to say we finished cooking tea inside! :hap:

 

 

Brave indeed, I would've rang for Pizza!

 

I must admit... my sister had the coolist head and did all the work... I wasn't much help.

I do not know why you were hiding inside with all those hard bodied firemen at your house. As a straight man, they do nothing for me, but if I was to turn..................................

Edited January 19, 200916 yr by Dave_McMinn

I di not know why you were hiding inside with all those hard bodied firemen at your house. As a straight man, they do nothing for me, but if iwas to turn..................................

 

 

I was thinking the same thing only i am a straight women so eye candy alert! :sadsorry:

wow that will be story you will look back at an laugh at, glad eveyone is safe.

Glad the family is nice and safe... Whats great is when your in the city and you see a bin on fire and 4 trucks turn up... I think its just proceedure, get as many trucks as possible incase its a worse situation then expected... It wouldn't be a good thing if they only sent one and the whole place burnt down :sadsorry:

:sad: what fun! I am so pleased everyone is safe and no property was lost. :sad:

Men in uniform.... :sad: :sadsorry:

Glad everyone is okay.

man........l thought you would be checking those firemen out, l now that is what l would have done

:rofl: :rofl: We were checking them out, from inside... but sadly the eye candy down here is not very sweet!!! lol.

Ooo how scary!. What a pity about the sugar free eye candy.

Ooo how scary!. What a pity about the sugar free eye candy.

 

sugur free i think the candy down our way is all like thoughs sour worms

it not only sends bad shivers it makes your face turn

i think i would rather be single for life

and even if you can look within well

you basiclly find a abandoned shell hard and emotionless

not worth trying to crack and if you do make the effort just turns out rotten in the end

i refuse to have a bbq unless its an electric one cause im hopless with gas apliances dont know how many times i burnt my eye brows off and singed my hair in a gas oven sticking my head in after being frustrated it wont light :doh: got electric one now

 

glad to here all turned out well darl