Took a day for the adrenaline to wear off to post this.
A lot of you know we bought a new place in Lake Arrowhead last year In following my DOC’s Studio build thread. Our last home had a nice BBQ island I built, but I certainly couldn’t move that to the new place so I ordered a new grill for the new house Last month. It got placed against the house in the picture below, just below that light and you can see the natural gas line in the lower right.
So we have friends over for the weekend and we did BBQ chicken on the grill. Nice dinner. Around 2 AM Karen and I both smelled something burning. Then I said, sh#t we left the BBQ on to burn off the chicken. I got up and went out and turned off the 3 burners that were still on.
We go back to sleep and around 3 AM we both wake up since it looks like daylight out the window, WTF! I run over and the back of the house is on FIRE. No kidding a wall of flame. I yell fire as we have another couple staying with us the weekend, and had Karen dialed 911. I then run down into the garage and grab 3 fire extinguishers and ran out the back door. As I was sitting them down getting ready to start shooting, then I remember I just hooked the hose up a few days ago and turned it on (it was in winter mode) as you look at the picture above you see it is disconnected. I grabbed that thing, turned on full blast and started dosing the forward parts of the flame heading to the west under the eve and them the flames climbing up to the second story.
Thank God I was able to get them under control, because if we had slept another minute the entire back of the house would have been in flames. Also it was a windless night or I’d be looking at a pile of ashes.
So Karen calls 911 and they answer, “911, Anaheim” since our Magic Jack phone number is still 714 area code and that’s where it got routed. It took another few minutes to get through to the local 911. 2 engines and an ambulance showed up, by that time I had the flames out but there was still a lot of hot spots. They took over from there.
A lot of you know we bought a new place in Lake Arrowhead last year In following my DOC’s Studio build thread. Our last home had a nice BBQ island I built, but I certainly couldn’t move that to the new place so I ordered a new grill for the new house Last month. It got placed against the house in the picture below, just below that light and you can see the natural gas line in the lower right.
So we have friends over for the weekend and we did BBQ chicken on the grill. Nice dinner. Around 2 AM Karen and I both smelled something burning. Then I said, sh#t we left the BBQ on to burn off the chicken. I got up and went out and turned off the 3 burners that were still on.
We go back to sleep and around 3 AM we both wake up since it looks like daylight out the window, WTF! I run over and the back of the house is on FIRE. No kidding a wall of flame. I yell fire as we have another couple staying with us the weekend, and had Karen dialed 911. I then run down into the garage and grab 3 fire extinguishers and ran out the back door. As I was sitting them down getting ready to start shooting, then I remember I just hooked the hose up a few days ago and turned it on (it was in winter mode) as you look at the picture above you see it is disconnected. I grabbed that thing, turned on full blast and started dosing the forward parts of the flame heading to the west under the eve and them the flames climbing up to the second story.
Thank God I was able to get them under control, because if we had slept another minute the entire back of the house would have been in flames. Also it was a windless night or I’d be looking at a pile of ashes.
So Karen calls 911 and they answer, “911, Anaheim” since our Magic Jack phone number is still 714 area code and that’s where it got routed. It took another few minutes to get through to the local 911. 2 engines and an ambulance showed up, by that time I had the flames out but there was still a lot of hot spots. They took over from there.
ty day
. Seems like you were able to get the fire under control before total devastation happened, including the fact that no one was injured or lost their lives. I'm hoping no squirrels were hurt either, ha ha! After looking at your pics, I'll never have a BBQ grill tethered so close to the house. Have you already thought of some new plans for a BBQ station?
