To have scooped my DC up and run outside thinking 'fire'?

[TheShowMustGoOn]

At 3am?

This is going to be an AIBU by stealth, isn't it

There's a lot you're not telling us here!

I'm going to take a chance and say UABU

Ach wasn't meant to be by stealth

where's the rest of my post?

Okay I was woken up by noise so half awake and shattered - looked through the shutters and saw smoke and flashes of orange.

We have buildings attached to our flat and I was certain one was on fire.

so what was happening?

We were standing in the street shoeless when a lovely binman asked if we were alright (it was orange lights from their van) Oh I was mortified

Then when I went to the back saw it was the condesing pipe from our own bloody house that was causing the 'smoke'

Better safe than sorry though hey?

Better to do than then be telling the firemen afterwards?.?well, I could have run for the door?.but I didn?t want to over react!?

A bin lorry? At 3am?
Are they on overtime?

Very true!

I applied to be a fireman recently so I think all that is still in my head.

purpleturtle - no idea - they are here at 1am sometimes.

YANBU but that really did make me laugh!

YANBU
Consider it a trial run, just in case (God forbid!)
Do other people have an escape plan? Or is it just me?

I did similar once (although didn't quite make it out of the house luckily)...

Turned out it was just a particularly beautiful and golden morning sunrise streaming in through the window and reflecting around the room.

Probably the most terrifying 20 secs or so of my life!

not just you CDM, we have an escape plan - DSs bedroom window looks over the flat roof of the porch (which is the size of a box room) woe betide DH if I find he has locked it and taken the key away! - it has a special hook, and there it must stay!

glad was a false alarm OP ! better safe than sorry!

YANBU - you did the right thing. Better to be over cautious than not to be cautious enough.

Bet you felt like a tit though

I've asked for a free fire saftey check frm the fire service in our town
I want to get an escape ladder attached to my bedroom window

I do too Trinity but DH won't let me. We do have a plan for who gets which child though.

YANBU it's better to be safe then sorry.

As an aside, is anyone else's fire plan very similar to their zombie plan?
Mine is, except the bit about getting to the TA base. I probably won't need to go to the TA base in the event of a fire.

well its better safe than sorry, we have a plan that involves my husband getting the two youngest and ill take the two oldest either downstairs to the front door OR out onto the flat roof on the middle floor. If we got stuck on the top floor we would have to hope someone with a really tall ladder was nearby. This is one of the reasons we are moving soon!