Rough night for my neighbor

[sandman2234]

Last year one of my neighbors put on a fireworks show that rivaled the city's show downtown. We were hoping for a repeat this year, as it was nice sitting by the window upstairs looking over our yard like front row seats.
I think he was getting ready for the show, and I heard a few preliminary pops of rockets. I looked out the kitchen window, and realized there was a problem. His barn was engulfed in flames, and I don't mean like a sparkler.
The entire building is a loss, including the nice JD tractor and his zero turn mower. I am sure going to miss that JD, as I have used it several times when I needed a front end loader.
Thankful that the fire was contained to his barn, and left his house alone, and that nobody was hurt.
For all of you, please be extra careful during this fire season.
David from jax

 

[Treemonkey1000]

I hope that his insurance will cover it all. They may want to give him a rough time if they hear about the fireworks part.

 

[Matt_Jr]

That's too bad. A shop around here had a fuel tank out of a vehicle and the gas vapor got to the hot water heater. The whole building was engulfed in seconds. Tool boxes were nothing but a pile of slag afterwords. The insurance company didn't cover anything. They claimed that it was caused by negligence. Many techs lost tens of thousands of dollars in tools, cars parked outside, and the building. It's really sad to hear when people lose stuff that takes years to accumulate, their livelyhood and all, but at least it can all be bought or worked for again. Lives can't. Let's hope it works out for him and they cover everything.

 

[Flatheadyoungin]

i think about this all the time, i built the garage about 4 years ago and i've yet to tell the insurance company.....most of my net worth is in that garage. i've always figured they'd blame my wiring, my coal stove, my fuel cans or something....

That's too bad. A shop around here had a fuel tank out of a vehicle and the gas vapor got to the hot water heater. The whole building was engulfed in seconds. Tool boxes were nothing but a pile of slag afterwords. The insurance company didn't cover anything. They claimed that it was caused by negligence. Many techs lost tens of thousands of dollars in tools, cars parked outside, and the building. It's really sad to hear when people lose stuff that takes years to accumulate, their livelyhood and all, but at least it can all be bought or worked for again. Lives can't. Let's hope it works out for him and they cover everything.

 

[EddieWalker]

That's just depressing. Sorry to hear about stuff like that.

Eddie

 

[jinman]

I have quite a few fireworks left over from July 4th, but my county has a burn ban and I refuse to bring out the fireworks in unsafe conditions.

This is not to say your neighbor was unsafe, David, there are many things that can happen with fireworks. Last year I had a shell explode as soon as it came out of the tube. It sprayed me and all the spectators with sparks. Next year, the spectators will be back much further from the show. Nobody got badly burned this year, but we were all lucky. I wish your neighbor good luck with his insurance claim.

 

[brandoro]

Hopefully insurance will cover it but, even if it does there are always little things that you gather up over time that are difficult to replace or put a value on.
One of the most entertaining fireworks shows I have seen around here was watching one of my neighbours get chased down the beach by a rocket that fell over just as it was launching. No harm done so it was pretty funny, took him a little longer than the rest of us to see the humour in it. Still, lots of potential for something like that to cause a fire if it ended up against a house or shed.
I bought a 20 foot container last year mostly so I could get things like propane bottles and fuel cans out of my shop. Never liked having them in there but if I leave them outside they have a tendency to wander off.

 

[sandman2234]

Not your average John Deere colors. I much prefer the green and yellow.
Fire Marshall determined that the electical had suffered from the effects of rodents compounded by his leaving the lights on for the last 24 hours, which started the fire. The origin of the fire was right on the other side of the wall from the tractor, and was the last part that the fire department put out. The Deere had no chance...






David from jax

 

[DWCox]

Good to hear no one was hurt. Sad to see a nice J.D. end up like that though. I hope everything works out for your neighbor.

 

[irwin]

That is one sad picture......