Yesterday there was an electrical fire in the basement of the house i'm currently staying at. My bedroom is right next to the room that the fire was under. My friends woke up practically 10 minutes before the fire started and woke me up.
The house was full of smoke, it was really hard to breathe let alone find all our animals and get them out safely. We have 9 cats and 5 dogs! It was insanely hectic. After everyone was safe which took less then 5 minutes, I proceeded to grab the extinguisher while my friends called 911. Thankfully I managed to put out most the fire before the emergency units arrived, which hopefully saved on a lot of damage. It was hard to get a good angle to put it out, most the fire was on the ceiling of the basement.
But on the good side, noone was hurt and the damages wasn't to severe. A loss of electric on the entire left side of the house, some smoke damage, and some support beams which under the insurance coverage has to be completely replaced, and the entire house re-wired is about the extent of the damage.
An electrician came out today and said it was safe to use an un-injured circuit on the right side of the house until things are re-assessed. Which all boils down to me still being able to work on the project for 4e6, just got to be careful for awhile.
Heres some pics of the aftermath:
