Verandah fire

[Mike K]

I had a brain fade last week. I put the wood heater fire ashes in a cardboard box on the verandah . 5 hours later it was all on fire . I came home and an old freezer and other stuff was well alight . I picked up the freezer and managed to get it off onto the grass , burnt my face a bit doing that and the acrid smoke too.

I ran to the car and the extinguisher got out some of the fire, then i remembered I had 2 plastic jerry cans full of water . this finally got the fire out . It burnt a big hole in the floor , the bearer was badly burnt too.

I normally have 44 gallon drums of water around the house during summer , but they were not in place as its Winter here .

Scary stuff mike