Posted by Bob on January 10, 2018 at 20:03:37 from (64.255.159.199):
In Reply to: Lucky fire. posted by Heyseed on January 10, 2018 at 04:40:17:
Back in the 80's, a friend of mine, Terry, was on the local VFD.
Through cooperation with the local phone co, the firemen could blow the town's fire siren by flipping a little accessory toggle switch on their phones.
One morning, while Terry and his wife were at work, an electric blanket that had been inadvertently left on started a fire on the bed.
For one reason or another, apparently the nightstand phone had been used earlier that morning and left setting on the bed.
The bed fire partially melted the phone and shorted the wiring, causing the fire siren to mysteriously blow.
One way or another, by that time smoke was billowing out of the house, making it easy to spot where the FD was needed. They quickly out out the fire, and the house was saved and cleaned up, and Terry still lives there today.
The last I heard, the melted/charred phone was still one display at the firehall!
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