I had two encounters with fire yesterday

At work, cutting 120mm steel plate, a lot of sparks are produced and these normally go down into the water bed.
10 months after having the bed renewed, there is a lot of molten metal build up. As the job piece was being cut, the sparks were hitting the dross and flying out of the side of the plate. The sparks were hitting the cutting section of the machine and the plastic concertinaed covering caught fire. I quickly grab the nearby extinguisher and doused the flame.
Minor damage, machine down for about half and hour to affect repairs.

Last night my power went off, when I went out to investigate, the upstairs neighbours electrical box had caught fire. There were already firemen there. They had turned all power off as a precaution.
My power was restored within 20 minutes.

One more to go then.Hopefully it’s just burning the toast.

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I rarely have toast so maybe the microwave oven might explode :slightly_frowning_face:

Keep an extinguisher close at hand Bretrick. Strangely I have just replaced my smoke detectors in the house…
:wink:

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You’ll have to try toast today then

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