To remind people to keep a bucket of sand/ fire blanket....

[RubyGates]

to hand if you're barbequing
Please!
I've just watched my neighbour's house go from smoldering eves to no roof and flames in a frighteningly short space of time.

Her next-door neighbour's barbeque got swiftly out of hand, the fence caught, then the shed... it crept up to her eves and then into the roof-space.

Terrifying!

OMG that,s terrifying. Was everyone ok?

Oh poor people.
Especially when it wasn't even their own carelessness.

Bbqs are overrated anyway

thats awful, your poor neighbour!

Everyone is fine. The fire brigade attended very quickly, and fortunately my friend had just moved down to her new home having just retired so they were not inside..

The house was mostly empty, they were returning tomorrow to pack the last of their stuff up.

Good thread. Doesn't hurt to remind people re safety.

Saw an awful story on the news about two kids playing with floaty toys in the sea. Man of 25 died rescuing them.

Same about sand - burying. Holes can collapse.

Er oshuk that is a bit of a random deviation but you are right. A boy from our village died when a hole he was digging in sand dunes collapsed on top of him

We have a fire blanket and extinguishers, OH used to be in insurance

Hope your neighbours are okay, and can get repairs done on the insurance of their neighbour as it was their BBQ. We used to have a neighbour who liked to use lighter fluid to get a nice big woooosh from his BBQ- he was a safety officer in the oil industry, ffs

It didn't help that the neighbours kept a lovely pile of old matresses and broken furniture right next to the fence.

The neighbours with the BBQ, not my friend that is.

Crikey! Hope they are OK. Thanks for the public service announcement, I will be passing this advice on :-)

Sorry, 5foot5 was being a bit random, wasn't I

Or maybe just don't light a BBQ next to a pile of old mattresses and a flammable fence?.... The neighbours in question are clearly so thick, if they'd had a fireblanket (big if), they wouldn't have a clue how to use it.