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Not for anything, but on that day, as I was getting ready to go to sleep, I smelled something burning all the way in Inwood. I just thought it was somewhere nearer. I wonder if someone else smelled it from that far.
Think this will have broader implications? Perhaps renew a push to bring NYC public housing up to par? That could be devastating to the city's finances.
I saw this on TV tonight. Hopefully Red Cross will be helping them find a place to stay. So sad. We live near our local fire department and we are hearing many sirens lately. People trying to stay warm and heating systems being overloaded by the cold weather.
My Guess is a space heater or something to do with keeping warm...
I'm using a space heater right now. It's right next to me. Keep glancing at it too as if it's some strange bug to make sure it's still upright and "okay". It's one of those DeLonghi heaters (supposed to turn off if it falls over to its side or becomes too hot). Maybe I should kind of turn it off...just in case...
I'm using a space heater right now. It's right next to me. Keep glancing at it too as if it's some strange bug to make sure it's still upright and "okay". It's one of those DeLonghi heaters (supposed to turn off if it falls down or becomes too hot). Maybe I should kind of turn it off...just in case...
We had an explosion in a small house in our town on July 4th last year. Temperature was in the 90's but this sweet little old lady must have been cold because she had the heater on. Her pet animal knocked the space heater over and she was on oxygen and the fire with the oxygen blew the house up. Luckily she got out O. K. She must have moved fast.
Think this will have broader implications? Perhaps renew a push to bring NYC public housing up to par? That could be devastating to the city's finances.
Wasn't public housing, but something New York City has tons of; non-fire proof buildings that went up before 1940's or even 1920's, there is quite a lot of it out there.
It doesn't take much to get a blaze going in one of those buildings. On a windy night like this things can get out of hand very quickly. More so if tenants don't heed the lessons about keeping doors closed.
What often happens is people rush out of their apartments leaving the doors open, and or out the front door (doing same). That just creates a chimney effect as air rushes in that feeds and spreads fire.
Worse many of these buildings from early part of last century (or before) have unenclosed staircases. Again fire and smoke simply travel upwards because the staircase acts like a chimney. This is why radiators are placed near or at bottom of such staircases. Convection carries heated air to the upper floors/hallways all the way towards skylight.
Might be Xmas decorations. Between dried out trees and overused outlets, seems like the holidays bring extra fires.
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