I was just promoted and am the manager of a group home for mentally challenged people. I started there last Sunday.
On Tuesday, a co-worker turned on a pot pf potatoes to boil for dinner while I was sitting at the table doing some paperwork. She had walked out of the room and I smelled something burning. I saw a small flicker under the pot and went to check it out.
When I moved the pot off the burner, flames shot out of the burner and hit the range hood. I began to yell to the co-worker and our residents to evacuate. I assisted in the evecuation then ran back into the kitchen, grabbed the extinguisher and put the fire out.
There was moderate damage in the kitchen, but no structual damage. We’ve been out of the house for a few days now, until clean up can take place, as our resident have compromised systems and the smoke and chemicals may hurt them.
Do you thin that I did enough to get employee of the month now?
I’m glad no one was hurt. And sure, employee of the month for you!
My workplace caught on fire once. I was working at a radio station and one of the AC units on the roof caught on fire. Four engines and the hazmat team showed up.
The chief was really pissed to find we were all still in the building. The sales manager (one of the owners) wouldn’t let us leave because “It’s a really important meeting and the fire is on the roof not in the building.”
My workplace caught on fire once, too. It happened in the middle of the night when one dude’s printer overheated. Luckily, the sprinkler system activated and put out the fire but the water did a lot of damage to our computers. And the smell of wet soot permeated everything. We were displaced for a couple weeks while a team came in and repaired and replaced everything.
In the months following, whenever any of us who screw up, we’d say, “Yeah, well at least we didn’t burn the place down.”
My ex-wife taught 3rd grade. One year her students set her room on fire. She stepped out into the hall to talk to someone and while she was out of the room a couple of kids set the bulletin boards on fire with a lighter. :smack:
Nope, it happens. I worked on the 11th floor of a 12 story office building once where there was a bomb threat on the office on the 7th floor. They evacuated the 6th-8th floors, and left the rest of us in place.
We only found out because we saw the emergency vehicles, bomb squad van, and HAZMAT team in the parking lot.
We watched them remove the package and explode it in the parking lot. From our office window.
I had 2 sure signs of fall this weekend. I had a fire page Sunday for a lady close to my house that had her CO detector beeping. The batteries needed changing, and it doesn’t get done until there’s at least one fire truck and an ambulance in her driveway to get it done. :rolleyes:
Monday morning was the other one. A fire page to the local nursing home for a smell of smoke. The cause was the half-inch mat of dust in the heater filters, which had not been cleaned since we were there for the same reason last year. :rolleyes: :smack:
Rescue - clear out building
Exposures - anything that we need to protect that is near fire
Contain - not really applicable at this scale
Extinguish - surround and drown baby
Overhaul - make sure its really out
If you have enough people, several steps can happen concurrently.
You should have told your boss that*** the roof, the roof, the roof is on fire***. Bet he wold have let you out of the meeting if you had all started singing that.
That was very correct-thinking of you to get the residents out before putting out what probably looked like not a big deal of a fire. Instinct would be to take care of that first, but just in case, residents first. You did good; congrats on the promotion
