Very minor luckily, wall panel heater set my couch on fire because someone had pushed the couch up and accidentally flicked the switch on!..My middle son woke up smelling smoldering smoke as his bedroom was close to the lounge.. No smoke alarms back then either and that panel heater was taken out after this incident and a heat pump installed.
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Renee 1556074
No thank God, I haven't but that is my biggest fear! I fear that I would be in my house & not be able to get out!!
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Debra D 624780
My mobile home almost caught fire but the smoke alarm alerted and the firemen put it out.
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Lyn A.
4pts many years ago. one of the kids was 'being helpful' and cleaned out the 'ashes' from fire place wrapped in newspaper and put in the attached outside laundry-yes the inevitable happened, hot 'ashes'/ember caught the paper alight. Luckily was seen while still relatively small in the laundry. Walls had to be replaced, but house proper not involved
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Miriam R 782611
6
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Rosie 563501
2pts OMG, one of my worst nightmares
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Sue 1664345
In 2008 our dryer caught on fire. Thankfully our neighbours helped put it out.
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Helen E 469767
yes lost everything. not nice was 40 years ago. Beautiful old home.
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Diane 1457492
When I was a child the woman who lived upstairs in our apartments had a fire. I remember my parents waking me, the wall being hot, my Nanna trying to get her jewellery, my Dad telling her leave them,and the woman being carried down the stairs on a stretcher. She used to give me bonbon sweets when my Mum and I visited her. I seem to recall her recovering.
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Jacqueline R 353303
4 a dear friend lost her father, sister & brother in a fire her Mum & her were able escape. So tragic
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mike B 1066235
4
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Larry S 382961
My uncle ( mum’s brother) had a house fire. It was made worse as out in the bush,no water. Big problem was he was a rifle shooter and had kerosene tins full of bullets. CHRISTMAS,NYE and cracker night all in one go. Here we have smoke alarms hard wired to power and battery backup. One thing we did have over the weekend was our alarm died. Guy came yesterday and box on garage wall was ok. The sensors were ok but no power from box to control panel. He said possible mice have had a feed on wires. So he had to divert new wire and bingo it works. So if you alarm dies it could be hungry mice in the roof
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Lee b 979050
Wish it on no one just the thought makes me sick inside
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Paula J 395266
We have no smart bikes, scooters etc. but our fear is the bush on our back doorstep. I took a walk along the fire trail today and there is an awful lot of fuel out there.
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Sheree T
No, thankfully never.
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Gary 1660396
It was a kitchen fire - my flatmate was cooking in the oven & went outside to get something off the clothesline and got talking to the neighbours who where in their pool - I have come in the front door and could smell smoke - rushed into kitchen as flames started coming out of the slightly open oven - luckily I managed to get close to oven to turn it off and close the door which extinguished the fire but there was a bit of smoke, so opened front & back door which allowed smoke to escape - the only damage was the inside of the oven was singed but insurance brought decided to replace it
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Paula J 395266
Scary.
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Imperia S
not a house but nearly my back yard, was hosting my 12 year old son's birthday party, and had the webbed out cooking all sorts, and just pulled the food out, and noticed that the table was dirty, I only just walked into the laundry to grab a cleaning cloth to clean a table that the kids had play dough on, I forgot that we had put the dog in the laundry, so he won't annoy the kids, honestly I only had the door open for a few seconds, and the dog bolted out chasing the kids, and it knocked the webbed over on to a carpet, As my husband started to pull it up some of the beads slipped out and the carpet caught on fire, flames went the gazibo netting, and if was not for the quick thinking of one of the fathers that was there, and grabbed the hose and put it out , we would have had a Flaming Great Party, Luckly the party was saved, but was the talk of the Neighbour hood, teasing me, about what happened, and did I burn the dinner?
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Missy Wyld
4
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Susan KTC
No thankfully, never ??
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Cecily 1622826
I had a pot of stew cooking on the stove and I had a synthetic blouse on and it caught on fire. Then my hair went up 8n flame's. The first thing I thought was head for the shower. By the time I got there I had lost all my hair and my head was burnt and my neck and some of my forehead. I think the water saved me though otherwise I would have been terribly burnt Thank God for quick reaction.
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Lawrence W 1178882
I had a pot of cooking oil catch fire and could not get it out and the cupboards started to burn so I decided to carry the pot outside but the hair on my arm caught fire and burnt up the arm and then all the way up one side of my face, it was a terrible feeling. Of course I drop the pot and the spreading oil on fire burnt across the floor. The house was easy to fix but my arm and face took over a year to heal. To this day I can not sit infront of a camp fire or flames.
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Wayne Wilson
4
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Bugalugs
Never BUT, here's the really weird part. Before coming to Australia we had a wonderful Family Home, shortly after we arrived here that house burnt down.I have lived in QLD, NSW, Victoria and SA and owned houses in each, months after selling and moving to another State 2 of those houses burnt down. Nothing suspicious just one of those things but still weird.
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Fairy D
We had a large bush fire come right up to our garden fence as kids, but thankfully didn’t get past the fence.
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EILEEN W 310556
I was once trapped in a bushfire but my house was saved although we lost animals.
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pam rae
hi again Hanno
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Hanno.
5 points for No, thankfully never.
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Teri 1282723
Growing up in the farming area where people would make their own maple syrup, there were a few families who had fires in their homes and barns. Not all from syrup but some were. I have never been in a house fire and thankfully, I never will be. I've prayed for decades (likely 5 or more) that I would never have a fire in my home, and none of my family or friends either. In those 50+ years, not a single one of us has had one and I believe we never will. God is good:)
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Robert T 597718
yes
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Janet B 814772
When in high school, I emptied an ashtray into the kitchen garbage can. Went down the hallway to my room to get a book. Came back to a roaring fire in the kitchen. Thank goodness we had a fire extinguisher right there and I knew how to use it. Fire out, no damage to the ceiling but my mother got a new kitchen floor!
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Daniel A 2
4. Not that I remember.
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boy blunder
have attended house fires, on the clean-up side of things, but was involved in a hotel fire at WATERLOO STATION hotel quite a few years back. It was a very weird experience,i was the cleaner and the hotel had their money girl in she started at 4 am i could smell smoke coming from the kitchen i went in to check it out the roof was full of around 2 meters of smoke fire was pouring out of the area set aside for dishes ,i rang the department they were there quick i went around opening the doors for easy access before they arrived taking my time when i got to the foyer the police were there and 5 trucks, the hotel girl was screaming for me to get out, which i did, and then I saw the roof was totally alight flames shooting meters into the sky may have been a minute or two and the roof caved in, was a lucky boy that night,it started by tea towels combusting they were put away hot from being dried
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Lones
Wired in smoke alarm saved both our home and lives with just minor damage
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Derek T 647795
Have put lots of them out, some saved, some not.
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LEAH G. (Philippines CEBU )
4 pts
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Andrew B 1222902
Nearly have a couple of times.
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Robert F 1161011
Minor kitchen fires, easily extinguished by putting a lid on it. Six car fires, though.😑
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Linda J 383315
No thank God.
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writerrochelle
5 points for Thankfully, No! Thinking about the fires all over the world, and the loss it causes makes me want to cry for everyone who lost all they had. Thankfully, Jehovah's Witnesses always step in to help those who've lost everything due to fire, flooding or famine! ;-D
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sherrydp
My parents had on right before Christmas in 1973. Very scary.
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Brandy Yining Z
4 points
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Maria B 89860
No, thankfully never, thank goodness.
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Linda 3
Yes. had 2nd degree burns on the whole left side of my face and on left ear Doctors did an excellent job, At first they thought I would need skin grafting but I didn't,,, no scars whatsover and no hearing loss.,Got the large bandage off the day before my 16th birthday, Best birthday gift ever!
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Maria B 89860
Sweet 16 and what a Gift! And what luck not to have any other forms of treatment to endure. Must have had some magic cream under the bandages. My little painful mishap happend when I burnt the back of my right hand the bit under my little finger. I had the back of the chair facing the put belly stove and I was kneeling on the seating part and for some reason started swinging and my hand wedged between the stove and the back of the charir so I was trapped. There was nothing I could do otherwise I would have fallen onto the top of the stove. So I yelled out to my mum, who yelled out to my dad, who was in the loo in the backyard, he broke the toiled do, by then my mum came to her senses and grabbed me, dashed outside and shoved my hand in the snow. Happened to my in Hungary in a place called Mucsony (the cs is pronounced as ch). Had the scare for years. It actually smelt lik Pork Roasting. It was a place full of superstitions and a few other mishaps befell me there.
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Kathleen 1396104
We are having serious forest fires in Canada. We live next to the woods. So I am very nervous about climate change and the frequency of fires. So far so good. Fingers crossed.
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Sandra H 2204 NSW
5 points for never, thank goodness. One thing I never ever do is use candles (except on a birthday cake). All I see is danger with them.
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pam rae
5 pts
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Liane H
A minor issue when my sister decided to melt wax on the brand new stove top to do her legs .. Mum got home to find the builders ( who thankfully were still there !) ..casually just " finishing up " for the day in her newly painted kitchen .. 😬
Then we had our back fence on fire another time .. but I think the neighbours just hosed it out by the time the firebrigade arrived. Extremely fortunate on both occasions .l wouldn't like to be involved in a true one ,it must be devastating.
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Val 1394045
2
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Darlyne1980
Once, but IT was in Garbage container, the fire take the wall behind IT, the fireman stopped IT before IT came inside. So we had to get out in pyjamas, but we didn't loose anything.
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Cher
1 pt
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BLACK LIVES MATTER
Have I ever been in a house fire? Never (and I hope I 'never' get caught in a house fire in my future)!
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Grommie
Not me but it happened to a friend. House not completely burned down and it was rebuilt. After any seriously damp weather the house had a terrible burnt smell.
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