RDrancher
Veteran Member
My wife and I were sitting on the couch today, enjoying a lazy afternoon and waiting for the Belmont Stakes to start. My wife said that she smelled smoke and watched outside to check it out. She saw flames and smoke coming from the front of a rental mobile home that sits back in the trees behind our neighbor's home. It looked like a fire in a barrel to me. She wanted to make sure, so I started a search for my boots. By the time I found them she was headed down the road and up their driveway at a full run. I looked at the fire and it was obviously not a barrel. The front porch was on fire and growing fast!
I had just regraded our gravel driveway this morning and left the tractor in front of our house. I grabbed my phone, jumped on the tractor, glanced at the number on my neighbor's mailbox on the way by and grabbed a bucketful of their driveway gravel at full tilt as I headed toward the fire. When I reached the porch to throw the first bucket load, I saw my wife coming around the corner of the trailer with a hose. The hose was about 5 feet too short with a big hole in it a foot from the end, but she gave it a go anyway. The length of the hose put here directly in the path of the smoke, so she couldn't get too close.. I threw her my phone and told her the address so she could call 911. I found out later that she had been beating on the backdoor of the trailer yelling FIRE before I got there. She figured that no one was at home.
It took five buckets of gravel thrown out and under the porch cover to get the upper hand on the fire. My wife had retreated behind the trailer figuring that if I didn't have a handle on the fire I would be pushing the porch down in the general direction of the hose. Smart woman! I grabbed the hose and kept the hotspots down. Then...the front door opens and out walks this young lady! She yells, "What the **** is going on?" My wife yells back at her, "Your ****** house is on fire!" :laughing: The fire dept arrived twenty minutes later to save the day.
My neighbor just stopped by and gave me a big bear hug. My wife is already working the books at a ranch rodeo, so she missed out on all the glory.
I had just regraded our gravel driveway this morning and left the tractor in front of our house. I grabbed my phone, jumped on the tractor, glanced at the number on my neighbor's mailbox on the way by and grabbed a bucketful of their driveway gravel at full tilt as I headed toward the fire. When I reached the porch to throw the first bucket load, I saw my wife coming around the corner of the trailer with a hose. The hose was about 5 feet too short with a big hole in it a foot from the end, but she gave it a go anyway. The length of the hose put here directly in the path of the smoke, so she couldn't get too close.. I threw her my phone and told her the address so she could call 911. I found out later that she had been beating on the backdoor of the trailer yelling FIRE before I got there. She figured that no one was at home.
It took five buckets of gravel thrown out and under the porch cover to get the upper hand on the fire. My wife had retreated behind the trailer figuring that if I didn't have a handle on the fire I would be pushing the porch down in the general direction of the hose. Smart woman! I grabbed the hose and kept the hotspots down. Then...the front door opens and out walks this young lady! She yells, "What the **** is going on?" My wife yells back at her, "Your ****** house is on fire!" :laughing: The fire dept arrived twenty minutes later to save the day.
My neighbor just stopped by and gave me a big bear hug. My wife is already working the books at a ranch rodeo, so she missed out on all the glory.
