Photo Series: Your house is burning, what do you take with you?
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October 5th, 2011 at 9:49 am
I’ll take myself. I have off site backups and insurance for everything else.
October 5th, 2011 at 10:08 am
This is where a completed bug-out bag is handy. Grab the essentials, grab yourself, get out.
October 5th, 2011 at 10:12 am
Hmm. Do they make a bug out bag I can put my kids in?
October 5th, 2011 at 10:16 am
Depends on how large your kids are. Ever seen 8 Heads in a Duffel Bag? lol
October 5th, 2011 at 10:23 am
The Mrs and I just went through this. Fire was stopped 1/4 mile from our house.
Gun safe has a shelf that is our grab n go bag of documents. Hard drive is backed up and we have a go bag of meds and such already packed. We had time to grab all the pictures and photo albums as those are irreplaceable. Also grabbed Shadow Box with flag and shells and medals of my Dad’s.
Next go bag was for the cats, they have their own along with their carriers.
Next was he “Go trailer” for the horse, already have supplies in it ready to roll now.
October 5th, 2011 at 11:38 am
I would probably die of smoke inhalation trying to 1.) put my leg on and 2.) rescue my turtle and cats.
Oh well.
October 5th, 2011 at 11:59 am
I’d probably die, throwing things out of windows: guns, old radios, typewriters, telegraph keys. Not (to my horror) books; I can find most of them again but the old radio stuff, etc., they are not making any more of it.
(First thing out? Cats, in carriers if at all possible).
October 5th, 2011 at 12:00 pm
My purse, computer, backup, and data drives. The important papers are in a safe that claims to be fire-resistant.
October 5th, 2011 at 12:15 pm
After waking up to an apartment fire, I can tell you that most of those people are delusional about the amount of stuff they’d be able to grab. One helpful tip is leave your keys, wallet, money, etc in the pants you wore that night. That way, when you have to throw them on in a hurry, you already have those with you.
Oh, and the girlfriend moved my phone roughly one foot from where I had put it when I went to bed… couldn’t find it when I needed it.
October 5th, 2011 at 1:16 pm
Right now… Go-bag and gun. Though this does remind me to back up my hard drive and put a back-up in my go-bag.
I like having a go-bag for the pets, I’ll have to do that once we’re reunited. Though honestly, if this is a “You wake up in the middle of the night with the house on fire,” trying to grab the pets will probably kill you.
October 5th, 2011 at 1:17 pm
Safety deposit boxes in banks rarely catch fire, or flood, for that matter, and make a pretty good backup location for important documents.
I’ve jokingly said that if I have to move again, I’m just burning my current house down and starting fresh. That is just a joke about the unpleasant aspects of moving, however.
People and pets get saved first, everything else is just stuff that can be replaced.
October 5th, 2011 at 4:50 pm
I do the “leave your pants pockets full” thing. Need to get around to packing a bug out bag. I have the HD backed up remotely – is only way to fly.
I could do a few more things, but all the same I shudder to think of all the things I’d lose in a fire. You can’t take it all with you.
October 5th, 2011 at 8:36 pm
I leave my pants pockets full. I’m taking my pants and my son. I think my wife will follow me if I have the kid. Hard drive is remote back up and all of the important documents are in a good fire box.