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Did you ever live in a time or place where it was normal to burn your trash? - No, never did that.
What have you struck a match to light? - A bowl and a joint (cannabis). Well, more than one, ha, ha.
Do you have:
Any lighters? - Yes
A fireplace? - No
A grill? - Nope
Did you ever use one of those long fireplace matches? - Nope
Have you lit a grill? - Nope, not my thing.
Charcoal or gas? ^
Do you like grilling or would you rather someone else did the honors? - Even if I wanted to it would be difficult. I'd go if invited but I'm only having one grilled boneless chicken breast and maybe fish. Vegetables okay too but I never had them off a grill. The last time was about 15 years ago, I bought my own chicken breast to the outing.
How about toasting marshmallows? - I remember once as a kid.
I can hardly believe we had gas jets in our classrooms growing up. Did your chemistry classes include using a Bunsen burner? - I don't remember.
Is your home equipped with natural gas? - Apartment, not sure what they have here.
Have you ever seen a car or building on fire or the aftermath? - A few months ago awful people or person burned down 3 historic row houses in my neighborhood because they had pride flags on their houses. Sadly they were never caught. The answer? More and more pride flags went up.
Everyone got out but at least one cat died. An ugly stain on this great neighborhood that will take years to rebuild.
I've seen a couple of cars go up in flames.
What else can you tell us about your experiences with fire or are you done ? - I guess that's it.
Did you ever live in a time or place where it was normal to burn your trash? Nope
What have you struck a match to light? At various times in my life....a fireplace and a grill is all that I can think of. I Don't smoke and never did.
Do you have:
Any lighters?
A fireplace? Not any more<I use to love mine, but probably wouldn't be able to use one anymore, because I have adult onset asthma. Smoke tends to make me have an asthma attack.
A grill?
Did you ever use one of those long fireplace matches?
Have you lit a grill? I tried once years ago and didn't succeed. It's okay though, my Husband is the one who likes to grill out
Charcoal or gas? Charcoal
Do you like grilling or would you rather someone else did the honors? Husband is the one who likes to grill out....It's good, I get a day off from cooking
How about toasting marshmallows? Haven't since I was a child, roasting them on a bonfire...but I loved it then!
I can hardly believe we had gas jets in our classrooms growing up. Did your chemistry classes include using a Bunsen burner? One day someone actually made an explosion in one of the chemistry classrooms, which set off the overhead sprinklers and smoke alarms all over the school.
Is your home equipped with natural gas? No, it's all electric.
Have you ever seen a car or building on fire or the aftermath? The Aftermath
What else can you tell us about your experiences with fire or are you done ? Thanks PegE!
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As soon as we have had rain for a while I will burn the slash pile. The neighbors have some much larger piles to burn. They took out an orchard. We are just pyromaniacs in my area.
I have a wood stove. I use it all winter. Also have gas furnace and stove.
Don't they have bunsen burners in classes now? We also used propane torches to melt metal in jewelry class in highschool.
I spent this afternoon deep cleaning my kitchen. So posting these is a welcome break.
Did you ever live in a time or place where it was normal to burn your trash? Nope. Always had trash pick up.
What have you struck a match to light? Stove, candle, that's about all I can think of.
Do you have:
Any lighters? Yep. Though I'm not much of a fire bug, I have a very small collection of lighters.
A fireplace? Nope. Only ever had them in apartments a couple times.
A grill? Not at this time, but previously.
Did you ever use one of those long fireplace matches? We had them when I was a kid though we had no fireplace. I think they were used to light the stovetop when the burners didn't self-start.
Have you lit a grill? Have.
Charcoal or gas? Prefer charcoal. Taste the heat and the meat.
Do you like grilling or would you rather someone else did the honors? I can take it or leave it.
How about toasting marshmallows? Love 'em.
I can hardly believe we had gas jets in our classrooms growing up. Did your chemistry classes include using a Bunsen burner? Oh, yes.
Is your home equipped with natural gas? Yep. Furnace, stove, and water heater. Less expensive than electric, at least in previous years.
Have you ever seen a car or building on fire or the aftermath? I have seen a house on fire as I answered yesterday. I called 911 to report it. I've seen cars after. I've seen various burned out vehicles as a trucker passing collision clean ups. . . . Drive safe, y'all!
What else can you tell us about your experiences with fire or are you done ? Sunburn? The sun is a burning ball of fire.
Did you ever live in a time or place where it was normal to burn your trash? Yup. Then, after a couple months or so, you have to hire somebody to haul off what won't burn
What have you struck a match to light? Yup
Do you have:
Any lighters? Got one in my pocket
A fireplace? Not sure if it can be used. Hadn't been used in 15+ years and can't afford an inspection to be able to use it
A grill? Charcoal grill. Only kind I'll ever have
Did you ever use one of those long fireplace matches? Yup
Have you lit a grill? Yup
Charcoal or gas? I've lit both but at home it's charcoal
Do you like grilling or would you rather someone else did the honors? I'll do it
How about toasting marshmallows? Love them. Ex and her mother used to roast them inside over a burner on the stove
I can hardly believe we had gas jets in our classrooms growing up. Did your chemistry classes include using a Bunsen burner? Yup
Is your home equipped with natural gas? Yup. Just for the furnace
Have you ever seen a car or building on fire or the aftermath? Both
What else can you tell us about your experiences with fire or are you done? Almost made an "ash" of myself once!
Covering the Wednesday questions because Kathryn has left the building.
I spent this afternoon deep cleaning my kitchen. So posting these is a welcome break.
Did you ever live in a time or place where it was normal to burn your trash? I don't know. Not normal for me but others may have.
What have you struck a match to light? incense, sparklers, a candle and when we used to have a gas stove.
Do you have:
Any lighters? No A fireplace? Not currently. Previous 2 apartments had them. Didn't use it. A grill? Not now.
Did you ever use one of those long fireplace matches? Yes, but for other things.
Have you lit a grill? Yes, in the past.
Charcoal or gas? Charcoal and propane,
Do you like grilling or would you rather someone else did the honors? Someone else.
How about toasting marshmallows? When camping.
I can hardly believe we had gas jets in our classrooms growing up. Did your chemistry classes include using a Bunsen burner? Oh yeah, forgot about that. Eleventh Grade.
Is your home equipped with natural gas? No. All electric.
Have you ever seen a car or building on fire or the aftermath? Car fire.
What else can you tell us about your experiences with fire or are you done ? Forest fire that jumped the road in the pine barrens (LI, NY) and a controlled burn in a wildlife refuge. I think I was in North Carolina. Somewhere I have a photo of the aftermath. Edit: I forgot I saw the making of Ladder 49 (John Travolta, Joaquin Phoenix, Robert Patrick and Billy Burke) in Maryland when they burned down what I think was some kind of empty high rise Grain Elevator near the water. Have a photo of it taken after the scene was shot. If you saw the movie, it's the building that Joaquin Phoenix's character supposedly dies in.
I spent this afternoon deep cleaning my kitchen. So posting these is a welcome break.
Did you ever live in a time or place where it was normal to burn your trash? We did burn leaves a few times when we lived on a farm.
What have you struck a match to light? Candle
Do you have:
Any lighters?
A fireplace? No, but we do have a fire pit
A grill?
Did you ever use one of those long fireplace matches?
Have you lit a grill? Yes
Charcoal or gas?
Do you like grilling or would you rather someone else did the honors? Someone else
How about toasting marshmallows?
I can hardly believe we had gas jets in our classrooms growing up. Did your chemistry classes include using a Bunsen burner?
Is your home equipped with natural gas?
Have you ever seen a car or building on fire or the aftermath? Yes
What else can you tell us about your experiences with fire or are you done ? When I was little, I heard the story of my grandmother's house being on fire. I have always been afraid of a house fire.
I spent this afternoon deep cleaning my kitchen. So posting these is a welcome break.
Did you ever live in a time or place where it was normal to burn your trash?
----- Yes. A garbage man came, but what was burnable went in the coal furnace, or fall leaf pile. There was no such thing as plastic before the 50s.
What have you struck a match to light?
------ Coleman camp stove, hundreds of times. Early gas stoves had no pilot light.
Do you have:
Any lighters? Yes
A fireplace? No
A grill? Not now
Did you ever use one of those long fireplace matches?
----- no
Have you lit a grill?
------ Yes
Charcoal or gas?
----- charcoal
Do you like grilling or would you rather someone else did the honors?
----- There are always workaholic volunteers to do all chores
How about toasting marshmallows?
------ I just light them with a match or electric stove and let them flame out.
I can hardly believe we had gas jets in our classrooms growing up. Did your chemistry classes include using a Bunsen burner?
Is your home equipped with natural gas?
------ No, LP cannisters
Have you ever seen a car or building on fire or the aftermath?
----- Evacuated a house once, but there no damage to my house. At 12, I reportes seeing kitchn flames in the window of the house next door, firemen kept the damage to minor. Also lived on ground floor in a building with flaming 3rd floor windows, had to leave for a few hours.
What else can you tell us about your experiences with fire or are you done ? That's about it.
Did you ever live in a time or place where it was normal to burn your trash? Yes, when on the farm, we always burned trash in metal barrels.
What have you struck a match to light? Trash, Candles
Do you have:
Any lighters? No
A fireplace? Not in this house. We really didn't like the one we previously had
A grill? No
Did you ever use one of those long fireplace matches? Yes
Have you lit a grill?Yes
Charcoal or gas? Both
Do you like grilling or would you rather someone else did the honors? I hate grilling. It's too much work for me, and too time consuming. We put our grill on the curb, many years ago.
How about toasting marshmallows? No
I can hardly believe we had gas jets in our classrooms growing up. Did your chemistry classes include using a Bunsen burner? Yes
Is your home equipped with natural gas? No. Most historic homes have oil conversion hot water heat, like we do. It's a steady, even heat, and doesn't blow out of vents.
Have you ever seen a car or building on fire or the aftermath? Yes
What else can you tell us about your experiences with fire or are you done ? No experience. Done.
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Not any more<I use to love mine, but probably wouldn't be able to use one anymore,
