We had our little tea warmer candles burning on our kitchen table last week. All of us had been in the basement for awhile, when I smelled burning rubber or plastic. I first checked my iron in the basement since I have been known to leave it on by mistake. It was cold. So we ran upstairs and once we got to the top, we could see heavy black smoke through the crack in the kitchen door and an eerie glow over the top of my counter. We burst in to the kitchen to find the runner in flames, the plastic box of one of the candle holders melted down, and its inside glass broken. The other two were still doing their job quietly and prettily. (The yellow box is one of the two that were still fine.) Donovan, who was right behind me, and I started throwing glasses of water over the counter and on to the table. We thank the Lord that the fire was contained very quickly. We do have a fire alarm in the house, but because the door to the kitchen was almost closed, it didn't go off until we went in to the kitchen and the smoke escaped to the stairwell. We immediately thanked the Lord for His protection from a potentially serious fire! (I went ahead and threw away the other two candle holders, too, not knowing what had caused the first one to break and melt. I have had them about two years, I think.)
We had our little tea warmer candles burning on our kitchen table last week. All of us had been in the basement for awhile, when I smelled burning rubber or plastic. I first checked my iron in the basement since I have been known to leave it on by mistake. It was cold. So we ran upstairs and once we got to the top, we could see heavy black smoke through the crack in the kitchen door and an eerie glow over the top of my counter. We burst in to the kitchen to find the runner in flames, the plastic box of one of the candle holders melted down, and its inside glass broken. The other two were still doing their job quietly and prettily. (The yellow box is one of the two that were still fine.) Donovan, who was right behind me, and I started throwing glasses of water over the counter and on to the table. We thank the Lord that the fire was contained very quickly. We do have a fire alarm in the house, but because the door to the kitchen was almost closed, it didn't go off until we went in to the kitchen and the smoke escaped to the stairwell. We immediately thanked the Lord for His protection from a potentially serious fire! (I went ahead and threw away the other two candle holders, too, not knowing what had caused the first one to break and melt. I have had them about two years, I think.)
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