This is another very unexpected situation that I had happen to me, but it will definitely get you to think, especially about what happened. When I was still learning about something and was seeing if an alternative worked and I had wiped my hands on the back of my pants. I wasn’t thinking about it, and I had taken my pants off at the side of my bed and went to bed. I wake up, I can’t see my hand in front of me and all I am able to see as I search around. I see a pile on the floor on fire. At this, Knowing I had tile and nothing was nearby new was no threat to anything or anyone but needed to ventilate the room.
I open windows open my bedroom door and rush out, on the way out someone I know mother was asleep on my couch she had nowhere to go for the night and didn’t mind helping at the time. She’s calling out to me saying “hey I think something is on fire.” and I tell her situation and I believe told her we needed to step out because smoke was in the hallway too. It airs out eventually, and I notice, I didn’t have any trouble breathing like I did in Testimony #6. Everything just seemed fine, so I go back inside and tell myself, “Why didn’t the smoke alarms or carbon monoxide or carbon dioxide go off there was a total of 2 carbon monoxide/ dioxide alarms and 1 smoke alarm. Both carbon monoxide detectors were approximately 4″ from the floor like supposed to be. One in my room and one in the hallway. Smoke alarm in the hallway at the end of the hallway. Now these carbon monoxide/ dioxides weren’t the cheap ones, they were the expensive digital ones that show PPM and have a threshold of when they go off. They go off at 17, It’s deadly after 25. So, I go to check them see why they didn’t go off, because I know the batteries were good within them. As I check the one in my room after it had emptied, it registered at 78. The one in the hall was 45 I believe. Also, at the 4” mounting for it.
I tell myself what happened with them, they’re broken or what and push the test button and it beeps like functioning normally. I can’t believe they didn’t go off. And soon I understand what happened.
I am very scared of fire always have been, since a kid when me and my dad both had same bad dream on the same night, we moved shortly after. Even in scouts I was afraid of it, I could never light a lantern until that was only light I had for me and the mother of my child at one point in time when our electric was off while she was pregnant. Someone had tampered with the meter, and we got stuck with repairing it and dealing with the argument that it wasn’t us and took several months. I was that scared doing it and typically asked her to do it, light the lantern that is.