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 since last Tuesday and the wallet became lighter by $400, I am just glad that we both are safe and unaffected by the fire. Soot had covered pretty much the entire counter-tops, fridge and other appliances near the cooking range.
Thanks to $10 pizza and pasta, dinner at Shaily and Vaibhav's on Friday and Sunny's birthday party on Saturday, we are just managing fine.
While we are tired from all the cleaning, and then more cleaning, I am relieved the ordeal is finally past us.
Till I write more, stay cool and stay away from fire and all things flammable.
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 since last Tuesday and the wallet became lighter by $400, I am just glad that we both are safe and unaffected by the fire. Soot had covered pretty much the entire counter-tops, fridge and other appliances near the cooking range.
Thanks to $10 pizza and pasta, dinner at Shaily and Vaibhav's on Friday and Sunny's birthday party on Saturday, we are just managing fine.
While we are tired from all the cleaning, and then more cleaning, I am relieved the ordeal is finally past us.
Till I write more, stay cool and stay away from fire and all things flammable.
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