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The frustrations, failures and fun of rebuilding after a fire

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Did you know?

June 23, 2016 /

Just wanted to share a few interesting facts we learned from the forensics electrical engineer after the spent a day investigating our fire.

  • Car engines. Only about half of a car engine is made of steel. That

    My car trapped under the collapsed garage roof. Although the fire investigation was inconclusive, they suspect my car was at the root cause of the fire.

    was all that remained of my car’s engine as the rest of it melted. Those parts were aluminum, plastic and other material.

  • Number one cause of garage fires. Lithium batteries are by far the number one cause of garage fires right now, according to our investigator Most commonly, it is the result of a rechargeable battery that has been left plugged in overnight and it overheats.Screen Shot 2016-06-23 at 9.20.15 AM
  •  Melting point of copper. Copper wiring doesn’t melt until it reaches 2,000 degrees. I know this because the copper wiring had melted and the investigator couldn’t determine any electrical issues because there was nothing left.
  • Arc mapping. This is a technique used by forensic electrical enginers to find electrical faults or electrical arcs. Arc mapping assumes that when fire impinges on an electrical line  it will melt the wire insulation and cause an electrical fault at the first point that it reaches on the electrical line. Our garage got too hot and had too much damage to effectively do any arc mapping.

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What if?

June 18, 2016 /

I’m not one for “what ifs”, but since the night of the fire, there are a million thoughts running through my head about what happened and how it could have had a different outcome. So, out of that, I want to share some ideas of things I’ll manage differently moving forward.

Heirloom Jewelry. I lost some lovely, sentimental pieces of jewelry in the fire, including the diamond earrings my mom gave me on my wedding day. I was the fourth generation of women in the family to have worn them. There was also the cocktail ring that belonged to my great-aunt Doc,an amazing woman who challenged the system and went to medical school back in the 1930s. We spent an entire day searching for these pieces and found nothing. It would have been simple enough to have a small fireproof safe in my bedroom that could have changed that outcome.

I will be getting a small, fireproof safe for our next home.

I will be getting a small, fireproof safe for our next home.

The Cloud. I wish I would have backed up more things to a cloud, because we’d have a chance to save more family photos, phone contacts and other archived material from our lives. We were lucky enough to find some photos from nine years ago in a Shutterfly album, which was a fun little treasure to find.

Home Inventory. It wouldn’t have been that difficult to take some quick digital photos or video of our home. It would have helped as we try to inventory our personal property and remember what we lost. It also would have been helpful to have in the rebuilding process so we could accurately describe some of our home’s features that we love.

Fire Plan. We were lucky that we were able to get out of our house safely. The fire investigator said it easily could have had a different outcome. We hadn’t ever really talked about a plan in the event of a fire. Had we all been asleep, or if the kids were home alone, some preparation like this could have made the difference.
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