When I was 14, my family had a scary situation happen that could have turned out much worse than it actually did and for most it does. Let me tell you the story and I hope you learn from others, including my family.
It was a cold morning in November, and as usual, my dad had built a fire in the fireplace to heat the house prior to everyone heading off to school. We had built his house from the ground up and it had now been 7 years since we moved in. Through out those 7 years we had many fires, just like the one we had that morning. But, what we had never done during those summer months when we were not using the fireplace was hire someone to clean it.
Well, that morning when walking out to the school bus, my friends starting yelling to me that there were flames coming from our chimney. Yep, you guessed it we had a chimney fire. Lucky for us, before I had a chance to get the rest of my family out, a neighbor had already called the fire department. We all got out safe and the fire department put out the chimney fire, before any of the rest of the house was damaged. They told us to get it cleaned before we tried starting another fire or it could happen all over again.
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Thank you Steven and Scott,
You are right we did get lucky and we know it! My parents still live in that same house and I know they have the chimney swept every year now! They are never going to let that happen again.