Wednesday, January 7, 2009

Fire!

Ok, so as alot of you have heard, yes, cj's house caught on fire.
for those who havent heard the story yet ill tell it, and for those who have, they'll be more info as well.

The Story:
cj and i went to petco last friday night. we were having a good ol time, and thought, instead of just getting a new fishtank, lets get a lizard.
so we got a small anole lizard like bob, the one that i used to have. We picked out the lizard, and asked one of the employees to help us pick out the rest of tghe equiptment. We got a plastic 'critter cage' bit enough for him to be comortable, but still small enough to fit in his room. we ended up setting it on his big huge computer desk in his room.
we also got a small heating lamp to keep him warm, as well as the crickets to feed him.
So...
we got home, set it all up, and all was good. we left for dinner to amigos, and then came back and set everything up further, making the desk look nice and clearing our things off of it, so we could fit both the lizard, and the fish tank on there so it would look nice. we left the room.
We played guitar hero world tour for a while with Nick, Becca, Jake, Casey, Jesse, and Erin.
cj went back to the room to check on the lizard. all was fine. he left the room.
so, 20 minutes later, my feet were cold, so i headed back to the room to get my slippers, i opened the door and the room was in flames and engulfed with smoke.
i ran into his parents room saying "the room is on fire!" so they went and got the fire extinguisher, and put it out. the whole house filled with smoke and all the kitties were scared. as for the lizard, well im sure he is dead.

so, heres the updates...
nothing expensive, important or sentimental got burnt. The damage origionally consisted of the burnt desk, curtains, broken window from the heat, as well as the ceiling and walls being blackened, and the paint was bubbling from the heat, and everything in the entire room is now covered in ash and soot, and is stinky.
The insurance people came today to take a look to see the damages and all that, and what his parents thought was around 2000 dollars in damage, ended up being about 7800. as it turns out, they have to replace the whole back wall in their room. The insurance is covering all costs, we just have to clean everything out of the room and wipe it off/wash it.
i hope its done soon!
ill have some pictures of the burnt room up soon. ill take some pics and post them by next week.

were just glad i went in there and found it when i did, because if i had waited much longer the whole house could have caught.
everyone is ok though :)

2 comments:

Tina said...

Once again, glad you & Cj's family were all okay.

Yes, it costs a lot of money to fix fire damage. Ick.

Marybo said...

yeah and its all stinky in there. like wayyyy stinky. we were coughing up black gunk for a day or two after the fire even happened too. it was gross.