First of all, check all of your smoke alarms! Make sure they are working. Please. If you don't have any, get some today. :)
Last night around eleven o'clock, we turned our heat back on, and started noticing a distinct smell in the house. It was more towards the back of the trailer. We couldn't figure out what it was at first, but it kept getting stronger. Bad enough that we thought it wasn't safe for the kids to be in their room. We called our landlord, told him, and he said that he'd be right over. They live just down the road from us. Well after I had called Al, we noticed that an outlet in the kids room was smoking and beginning to melt. That's when a little moment of panic set in. We didn't know if it was up in the wall already, and the trailer was going to start on fire. Al showed up as I was packing the kids. He and Aaron pulled the fuse, and figured out what was going on. It wasn't too bad yet, but if we'd been sleeping, or not home, it could have gotten there. It was a scary what-if moment. It was about two a.m. before we felt safe enough to go back to bed. I still get the chills thinking about it. But we're safe, and the outlet is out of commission and that is what matters most.
So, this morning, we double checked all of our fire alarms. When is the last time you checked yours?
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GOOD REMINDER! Change the batteries twice a year and test them monthly!
We've had some of those 'what-if' moments out here too. We have those infra-red heaters as our back-up heat source. (Think baseboard heaters but up at the ceiling.) Of the three heaters, two have shorted out with spectacular looking spark showers. (One shorted out in the middle of the night! Took me an hour to fall back asleep.) Lanny managed to rewire one so it works properly and, luckily for us, the breakers tripped both times so we didn't need to worry about that. It's still a scary thing to have happen. Glad your situation turned out alright in the end.
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