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Burn Notice

We finally moved to our own apartment by mid-April. Everything should be hunky-dory right. Well, partly. Great trail behind the house, with a huge lake and a beautiful setting. Just picture perfect. Had a major incident last week. As you might have guessed from the title, we had a fire break out in our home. Blame it on the garlic bread or the fact that we had a container with a plastic lid in the broiler. In fact, it had nothing to do with the garlic bread. Thick black smoke blowing all over the cooking range and a contained flame had me and Kirti running for cover. To make matters worse, the smoke detector in the apartment didn't go off. Rather it was the alarms in the hallway that signaled the fire brigade to pay a visit. Did call 911 for the first time and the response time was great. Couple of cops showed up with a fire extinguisher and quieted the fire. Fire personnel made sure that we won't be using the existing cooking range anymore. Just that we have been eating out si