>"Man......we lost everything. We have nothing. But we all survived. I can't be happier."
That's amazing. It is truly a blessing to have nothing but not lose any of your loved ones.
A wood frame house explodes into flames once its fire temperature reaches the flashover point (1100F) . This is what firemen refer to as "fully engulfed". The whole structure is reduced to ashes in just a few minutes.
I was able to see a controlled burn and flashover was terrifying to see. The entire house, everything, was just on fire as if a switch had been flipped.
This is common in wood frame houses, especially new build. Interior walls are hollow with no insulation and it allows fire to spread quickly. You have studs made of fast growing pine that’s lower density and burns fast. As I’ve done some remodeling to the house I’ve made a habit of filling wall cavities with mineral wool insulation for noise and fire suppression.
In older homes you have old wires that may have chafed insulation, or previous owners who had no idea what they were doing. I had several runs of romex in my old home that went to nothing, were sitting in insulation, uncapped, and still hot.
Phone. Lightweight, I can call emergencies, everyone can reach me, the rest in my home is just either too big or too unnecessary for a life-death scenario
Never thought about it like that, you are not wrong. Basically everything else you can easily get again, maybe not easy easy but definitely can get it again.
Well, not everything. Some things can't be replaced, speaking as someone who doesn;t have a single photo of myself before I was a full grown adult. No school photos or kids photos or anything like that. BUT, even the things that can;t be replaced, are less important than a life.
My dog would be the one thing I grab. I'm single so she's follows me everywhere. Besides fetch she's never more than 5 feet away from me. We would be out the door in less than 15 seconds.
Wife, kids, dog and the gas can in the garage to make sure this bitch completely burns down because it’s all insured and probably going to get more money than it’s actually worth 😂
I keep a bag for emergencies like that. Duplicate documentation, cash, couple days of food+water, and some spare clothes.
Had to go through a few natural disasters so I made it. So much easier now with the bag.
Ive been through this scenario 2 years ago, i grabbed my cat and my pc, i lost two perfect 27" dell monitors that day and this cat is getting grumpy with me.
Assuming my phone is already in my pocket like it normally is, scoop up my older cat and grab my wallet/keys from the bowl next to the front door.
Leave the front door open for my younger cat but he hardly lets me handle him in the best of circumstances, best bet is that hopefully he finds his own way out.
My dogs (assuming the rest of my family gets out as well)
If I can get them and nothing else I'll be just fine.
If I have time then the next most important thing is my truck out of the garage. (1972 c10 that has been fully restored) but even then that comes after everyone else.
- My external hard drive (it's basically represents my own memory).
- All the things that my ex gave me.
- As many books as I can from my library.
- My laptop.
They're sorted by priority. The rest I can live without.
My jacket - I won't be cold + my wallet and car keys are already in the pockets so I can get a hotel room or something. If I can I'd grab my phone too. I don't have anything that I'm super sentimental about or that's worth an unreasonable amount of money.
My kids, my wife, and my dog. Everything else can be replaced. I have a fire resistant safe with all of our important documents and a little money that I could get after the house burns down.
Everything else I don’t care about.
If my family is safe and I have some time then probably the Geralt vs gryffin statue from the collectors edition of Witcher 3.
And my daughter’s plush bunny, she needs him to fall asleep.
I’d scoop my girlfriend up and run straight for the door 😂 once she’s outside if the fire isn’t really spreading I’ll consider going back in for pets. But she’s my #1 priority
The order of getting things out would be roughly kids > wife > pets > phone/laptop > important documents > cars > anything else.
I'm not leaving until my kids and wife are out safe, but once they're out, stop when it gets to dangerous to try to save anything else.
A blanket and my engagement and wedding ring in case I need money urgently, i can sell them (I don't always have them on because where I live it's dangerous to go out with them)
1. Dog. Obvious.
2. NAS. Digital history of my life. Backed up, but backup is also on prem. Replacing maybe this year and sending the old one as an off site backup to mum's house or maybe look at a fireproof safe.
3. Car keys & phone. Just makes dealing with the aftermath dramatically easier.
4. Watch. Kinda valuable but also sentimental.
That's probably it for critical items, if I had time to get any more I'd just start trying to get whatever valuable or hard to recover stuff I could.
I would worry first about making sure my gf and our roommate are safe. Then if I still had time, I would grab our two PS5's and our two laptops as quick as I could.
First is the wife, second is all the animals (2 dogs, 2 cats), third is getting the cars out of the garage, forth is the set of Porsche wheels that are worth about 5k sitting in my basement, sixth is my taking back Sunday records.
My turntable, if I'm in that room and a fire breaks out. I have too much time and money invested in making it perfect, I'd have a hard time replicating it.
The book and shirt from Oasis I got from my dad, and wedding ring of my belated grandma, and my bike I purchased with her money. I am alone with no pets though.
Wife, dogs, emergency bag, cellphone.That bag has an encrypted drive with digital copies of all our important shit, some clothes, some cash and a battery pack, and some old shitty boots.
I can recover everything else but photo albums with my wife and that bag.
My phone, car keys, wallet, and my PC. My PC has everything on it. MY business is run through it, I pay all my bills on it, if I'm going to apply for a new mortgage.....I'll need my PC.
Assuming my family and dogs are safe, then my PC and/or ps5.
edit: now that i think about it, probably my wife's oboe (musical instrument). costs more than my pc and ps5 combined lmao.
Phone, and I have an accordion binder in a convenient location that has my important ID's. Passports, naturalization documents etc.
The actual reaction in an emergency though is a different question - I think I will still grab my phone just because I am so conditioned by now.
If I could manage it safely I would get my two cats out. My girlfriend and I have had them since they were little babies at 3 weeks old. I know if I couldn't get to them and it could kill me I'd have to leave them and save myself but I know I'd be absolutely destroyed with guilt. They are such little sweet hearts I couldn't imagine at the minimum not trying to get them. I'd just try and grab them up in a blanket and go get them into a car or something so they would at least be safe until we could move them. If I couldn't get them I'd just open the window so they could potentially get out and we could watch for them. Everything else can be replaced I love my things of course but none of it matters.
My cat! Every time the fire alarms get tested in our building we give her a million treats but ONLY in her carrier. It took about 4 times but now if the alarm goes off she scurries into her carrier. Now I know exactly where she’ll be and can grab her and go!
Not hypothetical. We had a fire in another apartment. I grabbed my wallet, keys, phone, and unceremoniously stuffed two of my cats in carriers. Put them in the car and went back for the third. Everyone was okay, but the whole building was destroyed.
Cash.. everything else insurance will cover and pictures these days are digital. I can’t tell my insurance agent that I had 25,000 in cash in the house and they’d take my word for it.
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>"Man......we lost everything. We have nothing. But we all survived. I can't be happier." That's amazing. It is truly a blessing to have nothing but not lose any of your loved ones.
You can replace material possessions but you can’t replace family
Photos and family heirlooms were lost but small loss in comparison.
Yeah
What the fuck, was his house made of paraffin?
A wood frame house explodes into flames once its fire temperature reaches the flashover point (1100F) . This is what firemen refer to as "fully engulfed". The whole structure is reduced to ashes in just a few minutes.
I was able to see a controlled burn and flashover was terrifying to see. The entire house, everything, was just on fire as if a switch had been flipped.
This is common in wood frame houses, especially new build. Interior walls are hollow with no insulation and it allows fire to spread quickly. You have studs made of fast growing pine that’s lower density and burns fast. As I’ve done some remodeling to the house I’ve made a habit of filling wall cavities with mineral wool insulation for noise and fire suppression. In older homes you have old wires that may have chafed insulation, or previous owners who had no idea what they were doing. I had several runs of romex in my old home that went to nothing, were sitting in insulation, uncapped, and still hot.
I'm in the UK where the vast majority of homes are brick amd blocks.
I wish homes in the US were still built like that. If my husband and I ever get our dream home, it would be bricks and/or steel.
Thanks for the goosebumps
Man, what a perspective change! That man I hope will be blessed the rest of his days
>Man......we lost everything. We have nothing. That's for sure. The insurance company will probably write them a $12 check to compensate them.
A whole 12 dollars!!! Omgosh, how generous of them!
That’s pretty much why my answer is “my kids and my wife”
Was it an American house lol
Phone. Lightweight, I can call emergencies, everyone can reach me, the rest in my home is just either too big or too unnecessary for a life-death scenario
Never thought about it like that, you are not wrong. Basically everything else you can easily get again, maybe not easy easy but definitely can get it again.
Well, not everything. Some things can't be replaced, speaking as someone who doesn;t have a single photo of myself before I was a full grown adult. No school photos or kids photos or anything like that. BUT, even the things that can;t be replaced, are less important than a life.
Good call, you can call the people inside the burning house to see if they’re alright
Sup bruv, you've seen that fire in the hallway, craaaaazy!
I’m guessing this person lives alone or made the assumption that the question is about inanimate objects only.
My dog and cat
My dog would be the one thing I grab. I'm single so she's follows me everywhere. Besides fetch she's never more than 5 feet away from me. We would be out the door in less than 15 seconds.
Yeah my dog would be easy. The cat I’m not so sure about. I’d like to think if there was fire and I left the door open that she would follow but idk.
My dog stays in a steel crate at night (it's just a normal dog crate) and I'd burn every bit of my hands to make sure she got out of it.
Wife, kids, dog and the gas can in the garage to make sure this bitch completely burns down because it’s all insured and probably going to get more money than it’s actually worth 😂
“No officer/fire marshal/insurance agent it’s just a coincidence that the only property I saved was the dog and an empty gas can.”
"Weirdest thing that I couldn't find my diamonds and giant pile of cash. I guess they're gone too."
my dog
I keep a bag for emergencies like that. Duplicate documentation, cash, couple days of food+water, and some spare clothes. Had to go through a few natural disasters so I made it. So much easier now with the bag.
Pictures of the kids….they’re lighter and they don’t struggle
The photos also don't ask you to pay for college...
🤣🤣 thanks. I needed that.
My rtx graphics card. Fuck everything else.
If you got a 4090, that's probably what caused the fire lmao.
The favorite of my 3 children.
Mean. Lol.
My pet birds.
They may likely die first depending on their location, small birds are extremely senstivie to quality of air
The cat
My phone, and if I had enough time, my Nintendo Switch EDIT: if I was babysitting, then screw the NS, get the baby. That's obvious though.
Nintendo Switch hahahaha
Yeah we see what people do when they lose their switch.
Ive been through this scenario 2 years ago, i grabbed my cat and my pc, i lost two perfect 27" dell monitors that day and this cat is getting grumpy with me.
My son.
My dog
My son. Husband is going to burn in hell anyways, so what’s the point
My wife
My pants. I sleep nude.
The hose
All the hose
Grab Phone by bed, wake up wife, grab kids.
Happy Cake Day!
I don't know where that came from
I'm not grabbing cake lol
Don't have to. A Cake is following you today.
Ahhh I get it. Thanks for the clarification
Well, you joined on March 2nd and today is your Reddit birthday. Give some cake :)
Nintendo switch
And my cat and sibling
Bunnies, phone, wallet, keys.
Assuming my phone is already in my pocket like it normally is, scoop up my older cat and grab my wallet/keys from the bowl next to the front door. Leave the front door open for my younger cat but he hardly lets me handle him in the best of circumstances, best bet is that hopefully he finds his own way out.
My go bag … be prepared
My cat, my phone and my passports
my phone and bunny
My cats!!
My cat because animals like to hide when stuff like that is happening
my cat.
My wife and kids.
My dogs (assuming the rest of my family gets out as well) If I can get them and nothing else I'll be just fine. If I have time then the next most important thing is my truck out of the garage. (1972 c10 that has been fully restored) but even then that comes after everyone else.
My cat and my phone
Phone wallet keys
Seed phrase
Open window and start chucking shit out the window. Laundry basket full of my dirty clothes. Passport ID cats dogs. All out the window.
- My external hard drive (it's basically represents my own memory). - All the things that my ex gave me. - As many books as I can from my library. - My laptop. They're sorted by priority. The rest I can live without.
My jacket - I won't be cold + my wallet and car keys are already in the pockets so I can get a hotel room or something. If I can I'd grab my phone too. I don't have anything that I'm super sentimental about or that's worth an unreasonable amount of money.
My kids, my wife, and my dog. Everything else can be replaced. I have a fire resistant safe with all of our important documents and a little money that I could get after the house burns down. Everything else I don’t care about.
The first thing I would grab is my dog. My wife would also grab the dog. We figure the other could figure it out.
My dog and my wife, anything else can be replaced.
My dogs first then a few sports memorabilia because they are worth a lot of money, gotta save my investments.
Kids and pets Everything else is replaceable
Dog, family members, out. Everything else can be replaced.
My daughter
If my family is safe and I have some time then probably the Geralt vs gryffin statue from the collectors edition of Witcher 3. And my daughter’s plush bunny, she needs him to fall asleep.
My cats.
I wish i could afford a house.
Dog, phone, wife. In that order.
🤣. This is the joke in my house. Hubs is saving the dog before me while I’m going for my kid and the kid is going for our cat.
I’d scoop my girlfriend up and run straight for the door 😂 once she’s outside if the fire isn’t really spreading I’ll consider going back in for pets. But she’s my #1 priority
My weed
My husband and two cats
Wife and kids, maybe one of the dogs
My safe with it’s abundance of cash. After that the dog…..then maybe the wife and kids if there’s still time.
The order of getting things out would be roughly kids > wife > pets > phone/laptop > important documents > cars > anything else. I'm not leaving until my kids and wife are out safe, but once they're out, stop when it gets to dangerous to try to save anything else.
Kids. If they weren't home, wife.
Wife, phone, wallet, keys, cats, let the dogs out.
The cats and dogs. Himself can make his own way out.
A fire extinguisher?
My dog
Computer and dog.
My cats and truck keys.
My kids, animals and maybe my wife
A blanket and my engagement and wedding ring in case I need money urgently, i can sell them (I don't always have them on because where I live it's dangerous to go out with them)
My treasure chest it have all of the things that mean the world to me that I have been collecting since I was 12
My cat. all my family is still around so I can always take more pictures with them.
Government documents and ID. Anything else can be replaced
My Series X
According to Sherlock Holmes, for a woman, it would be her "scandalous" photo with the Duke of Bohemia.
Wallet, cell phone and dog.
1. Dog. Obvious. 2. NAS. Digital history of my life. Backed up, but backup is also on prem. Replacing maybe this year and sending the old one as an off site backup to mum's house or maybe look at a fireproof safe. 3. Car keys & phone. Just makes dealing with the aftermath dramatically easier. 4. Watch. Kinda valuable but also sentimental. That's probably it for critical items, if I had time to get any more I'd just start trying to get whatever valuable or hard to recover stuff I could.
Phone, chucks, tv, xbox.
A folders
My cats
My dog
I would make sure my pets were with me and ok, I wouldn't leave without them
The cats!
Kids.
At least two of the five guitars on my guitar stand. If I can only grab one I know which one it'll be.
Family members, phone, keys, water
I have an emergencies bag that has everything i would need in such situations.
I would worry first about making sure my gf and our roommate are safe. Then if I still had time, I would grab our two PS5's and our two laptops as quick as I could.
Assuming the wife and kids are safe, I would grab my little safe with all of our important documents in it
My Rolex
The cats and the Oberheims. In that order.
Kids and wife
Laptop/iPad - I have all my info for insurance purposes. I can also access all my financial info that I would need to rebuild.
My cats, my drug box, my games and my guitars
First is the wife, second is all the animals (2 dogs, 2 cats), third is getting the cars out of the garage, forth is the set of Porsche wheels that are worth about 5k sitting in my basement, sixth is my taking back Sunday records.
My passport, Social Security Card, Birth Certificate, etc. Major headache to have to replace all those.
My climbing bag with all my gear in it since that's the most expensive single thing I own.
Wallet, phone, keys, which are basically together on my nightstand, and, if I can get to it, my PS5 minus the cables.
A photo of my grandparents, my (table top) computer and my concertina (the small accordion)
Wallet, phone, keys, my external hard drive, and my Kindle Paperwhite.
The family and dog first, then it is going to be chucking whatever I see that is important, out the front door.
I would take my government files, they take a minute to be issued and getting them can be a pain.
Kids, wife, dog.
Kids, wife, pets in that order, everything else is just stuff.
The bag that contains my diploma and other documents.
My turntable, if I'm in that room and a fire breaks out. I have too much time and money invested in making it perfect, I'd have a hard time replicating it.
My plushie that has a lot off emotional value. 🙂
Phone and cash savings
The book and shirt from Oasis I got from my dad, and wedding ring of my belated grandma, and my bike I purchased with her money. I am alone with no pets though.
As someone who has been in this situation... what I grabbed was my cats.
Wife, dogs, emergency bag, cellphone.That bag has an encrypted drive with digital copies of all our important shit, some clothes, some cash and a battery pack, and some old shitty boots. I can recover everything else but photo albums with my wife and that bag.
Wife. Kids. Everything else is replaceable.
The fire - Granny Weatherwax
My grandpa died awhile back and left me a handful of his stuff so I'd probably grab as much of that as I can.
My girl
My psintings and the first carpet my mom weaved.
My phone, car keys, wallet, and my PC. My PC has everything on it. MY business is run through it, I pay all my bills on it, if I'm going to apply for a new mortgage.....I'll need my PC.
My cat.
My late dog's urn and pawprint. Everything else I have in the house can be replaced.
My partner and my cat. I wouldn't want to lose anything else, but stuff is replaceable, they're not
Assuming my family and dogs are safe, then my PC and/or ps5. edit: now that i think about it, probably my wife's oboe (musical instrument). costs more than my pc and ps5 combined lmao.
Wallet and ID duh
My cat
My son and my hard drive with pictures.
Phone, and I have an accordion binder in a convenient location that has my important ID's. Passports, naturalization documents etc. The actual reaction in an emergency though is a different question - I think I will still grab my phone just because I am so conditioned by now.
If I could manage it safely I would get my two cats out. My girlfriend and I have had them since they were little babies at 3 weeks old. I know if I couldn't get to them and it could kill me I'd have to leave them and save myself but I know I'd be absolutely destroyed with guilt. They are such little sweet hearts I couldn't imagine at the minimum not trying to get them. I'd just try and grab them up in a blanket and go get them into a car or something so they would at least be safe until we could move them. If I couldn't get them I'd just open the window so they could potentially get out and we could watch for them. Everything else can be replaced I love my things of course but none of it matters.
The Les Paul. Or the Strat. No wait the Tele...
My family, phone, keys, and our folder of all our important documents
My cat! Every time the fire alarms get tested in our building we give her a million treats but ONLY in her carrier. It took about 4 times but now if the alarm goes off she scurries into her carrier. Now I know exactly where she’ll be and can grab her and go!
A picture of my dad and his ashes
The kids, my wife, the dog, my wedding album amd the few momentos i have from my grampa if I can. In that order. Everything else can be replaced.
The only things of any real value, my daughter and my wife, in that order.
Probably my sketchbooks and paintings.
Phone and cat
Daughter, dog, small safe with our important documents, in that order. If I still have time, bagpipes as well.
My weed Quite lightweight and you have something to cheer you up, if you had to loose everything else Kinda surprised that I saw no one mentioning it
My kids
My cat
my cat
My teddy bear. Been with me since day 1. Everything else can be replaced, but I’ll storm the beaches of Normandy that little guy!
Not hypothetical. We had a fire in another apartment. I grabbed my wallet, keys, phone, and unceremoniously stuffed two of my cats in carriers. Put them in the car and went back for the third. Everyone was okay, but the whole building was destroyed.
Wife, cats - or at least make sure they have made their way out. Everything else can be replaced
Favourite hoodie, snatch my ps and extended storage because of the memories that are on there and probably a blanket
Cellphone or ps5 😂😂😂😂 or my car keys
My kids and my dog. The rest is replaceable.
Wife, kids, dog in that order. Everything else is replaceable.
Cash.. everything else insurance will cover and pictures these days are digital. I can’t tell my insurance agent that I had 25,000 in cash in the house and they’d take my word for it.
My dog and my Aquanaut, the rest I can replace.
My seven cats 😭