{"id":665,"date":"2005-08-16T08:19:19","date_gmt":"2005-08-16T16:19:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mainecourse.com\/mt\/?p=665"},"modified":"2006-10-17T17:33:27","modified_gmt":"2006-10-17T21:33:27","slug":"two-alarm-fire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mainecourse.com\/mt\/2005\/08\/16\/two-alarm-fire\/","title":{"rendered":"Two Alarm Fire"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At 3:10 this morning, Diane and I awoke to the sound of two screeching fire alarms, an entire house full of smoke, and Matt\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s room so thick with it you couldn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t see his bed. As I screamed, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Fire, Get Out, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153 Matt hollered from downstairs, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153We\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve got it covered.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d <\/p>\n<p>What happened?<\/p>\n<p>The in-house fire reconstruction team determined that Matt\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s friend, sleeping in Matt\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s loft, knocked over an incandescent light which caused the mattress fire, which woke up Matt, who along with his friend, raced downstairs with the mattress, which by the time they hit the yard, was fully engulfed. <\/p>\n<p>Little did they know that the down comforter was also on fire, still in the loft.<\/p>\n<p>Had it not been three in the morning, I am certain we would have called the fire department immediately, not after we\u00e2\u20ac\u2122d put out the fires and tidied up. <\/p>\n<p>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"matress_deck.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/mainecourse.com\/mt\/archives\/image\/matress_deck.jpg\" width=\"229\" height=\"270\" border=\"0\" \/><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"matress_fire_sm.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/mainecourse.com\/mt\/archives\/image\/matress_fire_sm.jpg\" width=\"230\" height=\"172\" border=\"0\" \/><br \/>\nEven the men from our local fire department were impressed with this sight. One muscular guy with a Fu Manchu suggested sending the back pack back to LL Bean. &#8220;Lifetime unconditional warranty,&#8221; he said. <br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/mainecourse.com\/mt\/archives\/image\/mattress_fire.html\">View larger image<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At 3:10 this morning, Diane and I awoke to the sound of two screeching fire alarms, an entire house full of smoke, and Matt\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s room so thick with it you couldn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t see his bed. As I screamed, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Fire, Get Out, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/mainecourse.com\/mt\/2005\/08\/16\/two-alarm-fire\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-665","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mainecourse.com\/mt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/665","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mainecourse.com\/mt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mainecourse.com\/mt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mainecourse.com\/mt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mainecourse.com\/mt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=665"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mainecourse.com\/mt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/665\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mainecourse.com\/mt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=665"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mainecourse.com\/mt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=665"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mainecourse.com\/mt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=665"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}