On 1/22/2019 10:47 AM, Dave Smith wrote:
> We had a near disaster here this morning and I was pertinent to a resent
> thread about seniors and fires.Â* I was in the back room doing my morning
> crossword when I heard my wife yelling " Help. Fire" I went running into
> the kitchen expecting to see something burning on the stove. It was her
> clothing thatÂ* was burning.Â* I ran over and batted out the flames with
> my hands. ... not the best way, but the fastest.
>
> We are lucky that she was almost unscathed. She had one small first
> degree burn on a finger, but a microfibre sweater and vest are ruined.
>
> I hope that she learned a valuable lesson from that because she may not
> be so lucky if it happens again. She had a pot on the front burner of
> the stove. The (electric) burner was on high. She reached up into the
> spice cupboard to get something. Either the vest or the sweater was
> dragged over the hot burner. Since she had just returned from walking
> the dogs she was wearing long johns, another layer of protection, but
> one which might have also caught on fire or melted in the heat.
>
>
>
OMG! That's scary! Thank goodness she's okay. BTW, that microfibre
stuff will *melt*, which is dangerous.

I couple of thoughts: stop, drop and roll. That's what we were taught
in school if your clothing ever catches on fire. Don't run, don't just
stand there. You did good, though.

The other thing is, why are the spices above the stove? No matter how
small my kitchen ever was, I never had to reach up and over a hot burner
to get to spices or really to anything. Might be time to rearrange
things in the kitchen.

Thankfully your wife is okay.

Jill