I had a bad day!
Posted: Tue Apr 15, 2014 12:48 am
Lost 1/2 my collection to a basement fire! The bad thing is it's all my good ones! 
My entire mancave is gone. The only good car I have left is the Worlds car that I took to work to put on display to help sales of the rere!
The fire was confined to the basement but the whole house has smoke damage, no water or electricity as all the wires and pipes are melted! I have insurance but will never replace some of my items! They say could be months to repair!
Cause? E-flight charger! My old one died this morning (my day off) so I had a bag of them from all the RTF's I purchased over the years. Pulled one out, charged a lipo that I have charged many times with no issues!
Went up stairs to load new maps on my GPS, after 10 min there was a soft bang, never thought much about it, dogs must have pushed something over! After 10 or so min Garmin says I need a 4g card for all the maps. So I go down stairs to go get one, smell smoke, nothing in or on the stove, so I open the basement door and bang plumes of thick black smoke and flames shooting out of the kitchen vents! In that split second of me opening the door the room was filled with so much smoke I could not see, but rushed to open the back door for air. I tried to go down the basement to try to out the fire but it was so bad I could not see or breath! Called 911 (this all in seconds) got out name, fire and address to 911 and the land line went dead, cell phone was not possible to find!
Wet a towel with the garden hose and went back in to get the dogs 2 times and could not get them to come to me (all the time blind and can't breath). Finally the third time went feeling to the front door got out side and yelled COME and Ricky and Bubba came running out of the smoke! I was so happy but when the Fire engine came Bubba was scared and ran off. After a few hours we found Bubba. 6 fire engines, 2 ems and one chief!
I'm ok and the dogs are ok, wife was at work, son at school at the time. They rushed home though!
Sucks that my hobby has destroyed their house! Staying with daughter and son in law! Will be cramped for a few months!
Yes the Edinger,Cadillac, CE, Graphite, TQ's,Team, B2, B3,B4, 10T,2,3,GTs, about 12 NIB Tamiya and Yokomo kits all gone! You guys would cry if you could see all the damage! I do have some pictures but they are poor because it is dark and all blackened! Life just keeps dealing me bad hands, not sure how to play them?
My entire mancave is gone. The only good car I have left is the Worlds car that I took to work to put on display to help sales of the rere!The fire was confined to the basement but the whole house has smoke damage, no water or electricity as all the wires and pipes are melted! I have insurance but will never replace some of my items! They say could be months to repair!
Cause? E-flight charger! My old one died this morning (my day off) so I had a bag of them from all the RTF's I purchased over the years. Pulled one out, charged a lipo that I have charged many times with no issues!
Went up stairs to load new maps on my GPS, after 10 min there was a soft bang, never thought much about it, dogs must have pushed something over! After 10 or so min Garmin says I need a 4g card for all the maps. So I go down stairs to go get one, smell smoke, nothing in or on the stove, so I open the basement door and bang plumes of thick black smoke and flames shooting out of the kitchen vents! In that split second of me opening the door the room was filled with so much smoke I could not see, but rushed to open the back door for air. I tried to go down the basement to try to out the fire but it was so bad I could not see or breath! Called 911 (this all in seconds) got out name, fire and address to 911 and the land line went dead, cell phone was not possible to find!
Wet a towel with the garden hose and went back in to get the dogs 2 times and could not get them to come to me (all the time blind and can't breath). Finally the third time went feeling to the front door got out side and yelled COME and Ricky and Bubba came running out of the smoke! I was so happy but when the Fire engine came Bubba was scared and ran off. After a few hours we found Bubba. 6 fire engines, 2 ems and one chief!
I'm ok and the dogs are ok, wife was at work, son at school at the time. They rushed home though!
Sucks that my hobby has destroyed their house! Staying with daughter and son in law! Will be cramped for a few months!Yes the Edinger,Cadillac, CE, Graphite, TQ's,Team, B2, B3,B4, 10T,2,3,GTs, about 12 NIB Tamiya and Yokomo kits all gone!
You guys would cry if you could see all the damage! I do have some pictures but they are poor because it is dark and all blackened! Life just keeps dealing me bad hands, not sure how to play them? 
Glad the dogs made it out!