- Aug 20, 2010
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Had an interesting morning yesterday, got out of work at 4AM and stayed up to meet my GF for a quick breakfast in Niagara Falls Canada, got home at around 8AM. I was pretty tired from the long shift and the driving to and from the border so I was upstairs in bed pretty quickly like maybe 5 minutes after getting home. Thankfully instead of passing out straight away I derped around on my phone for about 10 minutes and then I heard it...smoke alarm downstairs. Run downstairs straight up naked and my entire kitchen is filling with thick smoke ! Somehow the toaster oven was turned on. I haven't used that thing in months I have zero clue as to how the heck it was on (the dial showed it was off). Grabbed some pot holders and ran that thing outside to my patio (still naked) and opened up every window in my house to dissipate the smoke. I am the worst at checking my detector batteries I know for a fact I have a couple that aren't working that is going to change very very soon. Also definitely picking up a fire extinguisher. Man that got my blood flowing. Also I'm a pretty heavy sleeper and I was exhausted, I don't think the alarm downstairs would ever wake me up it'd have to hit the detector right above my bed. Scary thought.
TLDR: toaster oven went rogue and tried to light my house on fire minutes before I was supposed to be sleeping smoke alarm saved my life.
TLDR: toaster oven went rogue and tried to light my house on fire minutes before I was supposed to be sleeping smoke alarm saved my life.
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