WEBVTT - Jack Armstrong Talks About a Threatening Brush Fire at His Home 0:00:00.280 --> 0:00:02.200 So I was thinking about this is as in bed 0:00:02.279 --> 0:00:04.640 last night, as it took me many hours to get 0:00:04.640 --> 0:00:07.600 to sleep, all the adrenaline going from having my house 0:00:07.640 --> 0:00:10.440 almost burned down, and I was thinking about how the 0:00:10.520 --> 0:00:15.560 good things in life generally occur fairly slowly and uh 0:00:15.600 --> 0:00:18.560 and and happen in a planned fashion. They unfold that way, 0:00:18.720 --> 0:00:21.239 and getting married, having kids, all those kind of things 0:00:21.280 --> 0:00:24.320 that the impactful good things happened, vacations or whatever they are. 0:00:24.560 --> 0:00:28.200 You see them coming, you plan for him. It's arigned 0:00:28.240 --> 0:00:30.840 in that direction. Finally you get there. The really awful 0:00:30.880 --> 0:00:33.040 things that happened in your life seemed to come out 0:00:33.040 --> 0:00:35.200 of the blue and are often over in a couple 0:00:35.240 --> 0:00:38.040 of seconds or minutes, and you spend the rest of 0:00:38.080 --> 0:00:39.760 your life thing and what the hell was that? Or 0:00:39.960 --> 0:00:42.320 I should have done this or whatever, and it you know, 0:00:43.880 --> 0:00:47.040 horrifying accidents, crimes, all that sort of stuff. They unfold 0:00:47.120 --> 0:00:49.640 so quickly. And we had that happened with a fire 0:00:49.720 --> 0:00:53.280 on our property yesterday. We live on twenty acres and 0:00:53.360 --> 0:00:54.960 we live in a part of the country where it's 0:00:55.160 --> 0:00:58.200 you know, incredible dry grass. We have basically the same 0:00:58.280 --> 0:01:01.520 landscape as they did up in Paradise. California where you're 0:01:01.600 --> 0:01:03.560 You heard about that town getting wiped out last year 0:01:03.560 --> 0:01:06.840 and all those people dying, and um, and everybody's very 0:01:06.840 --> 0:01:08.520 careful about it, and there are rules to follow and 0:01:08.560 --> 0:01:11.120 all that sort of stuff. But you know, you just 0:01:11.160 --> 0:01:13.800 always assume it's gonna happen to somebody else. And we 0:01:13.840 --> 0:01:17.080 don't know how this started. Um, still haven't figured that 0:01:17.120 --> 0:01:19.920 out yet. But I'm laying in bed with Henry, my 0:01:20.000 --> 0:01:22.639 youngest God, getting him to sleep. It's about seven thirty, 0:01:23.080 --> 0:01:25.839 coming off a medical procedure the last couple of days. 0:01:25.840 --> 0:01:28.560 He's on a lot of medicine. I'm hanging out with him, 0:01:28.600 --> 0:01:31.000 and my son Sam comes in the room and starts 0:01:31.040 --> 0:01:34.800 waving his arms and I said, ship, why I didn't 0:01:34.800 --> 0:01:36.360 know what he when he needed? You know, the dog 0:01:36.440 --> 0:01:40.000 is Pete on the floor or whatever. He's like waves 0:01:41.800 --> 0:01:44.080 And I get up, get up quietly as Henry is 0:01:44.080 --> 0:01:45.280 about to go to sleep and come out and he said, 0:01:45.280 --> 0:01:48.160 the fields on fire? Said the what the fields on fire? 0:01:48.520 --> 0:01:51.120 So I go out the door and I see over 0:01:51.120 --> 0:01:53.120 and there's a lot of smoke over there on the 0:01:53.160 --> 0:01:57.080 on the on the front of our field. Um. And uh, 0:01:57.120 --> 0:02:02.680 but but you know, looking manage bullish, not good because 0:02:02.840 --> 0:02:04.480 you know, I've heard about how these things can spread 0:02:04.480 --> 0:02:06.360 and whatnot, and it's windy, and you know this is 0:02:06.360 --> 0:02:09.280 gonna be a crisis, and uh, and I start jogging 0:02:09.360 --> 0:02:11.200 toward it, kind of thinking, okay, what am I going 0:02:11.240 --> 0:02:13.440 to do about this? Exactly? And I'm thinking about where 0:02:13.440 --> 0:02:15.760 a hose bibbs and where hoses and what can I 0:02:15.760 --> 0:02:18.120 turn on and off? And how big a deal is this? Exactly? 0:02:18.160 --> 0:02:20.640 Another and I said, have you called the fire department? 0:02:20.680 --> 0:02:22.600 And and Laura's on the phone right then, Yeah, I'm 0:02:22.600 --> 0:02:24.320 on nine one right night. I've called the fire department 0:02:24.360 --> 0:02:26.400 and sort of say okay. So I'm thinking, okay, I 0:02:26.440 --> 0:02:28.760 need to and I start jogging over. Well, I could 0:02:28.760 --> 0:02:31.160 get a hose. I turned. I remember I turned. I 0:02:31.200 --> 0:02:32.800 think I said I could get that hose in that 0:02:32.840 --> 0:02:35.079 hose and hook come together, maybe it would reach part. 0:02:35.120 --> 0:02:37.040 And then when I turned back around, it's ten times 0:02:37.120 --> 0:02:40.600 as big as it was twenty seconds ago. In that 0:02:40.720 --> 0:02:44.520 amount of time, it was okay, this is full on. 0:02:44.600 --> 0:02:47.520 Oh okay. So then I'm I realized, okay, the fire 0:02:47.560 --> 0:02:49.520 department is going to be coming, and I'm thinking they 0:02:49.560 --> 0:02:51.160 gotta get in some gates. And I jump in my 0:02:51.200 --> 0:02:53.160 truck and I'm going down. I'm gonna open up gates 0:02:53.160 --> 0:02:55.320 so they can get in the property somehow because they 0:02:55.320 --> 0:02:58.600 wouldn't know where to drive in. And uh. And by 0:02:58.600 --> 0:02:59.920 the time I get in my truck and I come 0:03:00.000 --> 0:03:01.880 on the driveway, it's twice as big as it was 0:03:02.000 --> 0:03:05.880 a minute ago. And it's just so much smoke everywhere, 0:03:06.400 --> 0:03:08.359 and it's so hard to see and even have any 0:03:08.440 --> 0:03:10.280 idea what's going on and how big the fire isn't 0:03:10.280 --> 0:03:11.720 when I get around to the front of the property, 0:03:11.800 --> 0:03:13.840 I get on the other side of the wind, I 0:03:13.880 --> 0:03:16.120 can see how big it is and it's it is. 0:03:16.280 --> 0:03:19.120 It is quite a large fire. Um it probably covers 0:03:19.160 --> 0:03:23.480 a quarter of an acre at that point. And um uh. 0:03:23.560 --> 0:03:27.560 I get around and the fire people start arriving, Thank God. 0:03:27.600 --> 0:03:29.320 And I mean, this made all the difference in the world. 0:03:29.360 --> 0:03:31.600 If I lived a couple of miles down the road, 0:03:31.840 --> 0:03:34.920 I probably wouldn't have a home. I live a couple 0:03:34.920 --> 0:03:37.920 of golf shots away from a volunteer fire department, and 0:03:37.960 --> 0:03:40.720 they got over there with trucks pretty damn fast. And 0:03:40.760 --> 0:03:42.400 they are really good at what they do, so it 0:03:42.480 --> 0:03:45.760 must be one of those volunteer places that staffed. I 0:03:45.800 --> 0:03:48.680 don't know. I didn't I didn't nail down how that 0:03:48.720 --> 0:03:51.080 even worked, because usually they usually they blow a whistle. 0:03:51.600 --> 0:03:53.600 We hear the whistle all the time, and people come 0:03:53.720 --> 0:03:55.560 driving in who are part of the volunteer fire apartment 0:03:55.560 --> 0:03:56.920 and they go do their thing. I don't know if 0:03:56.920 --> 0:03:58.520 there are people already there, or if they got that 0:03:58.680 --> 0:04:00.640 there that fast. I don't have the idea. I know 0:04:00.720 --> 0:04:03.560 one guy is a neighbor of ours, um that I 0:04:03.560 --> 0:04:06.800 had never met before. He later said to my wife, 0:04:06.800 --> 0:04:08.280 he said, yeah, My wife said, I think it's the 0:04:08.280 --> 0:04:10.280 place that's got the goats. We gotta get over there. 0:04:10.640 --> 0:04:13.160 They got a lot of goats. Um But Laura had 0:04:13.240 --> 0:04:16.000 run around and opened the gates for all the animals, 0:04:16.880 --> 0:04:21.400 and um Uh was gathering up stuff. And I went 0:04:21.480 --> 0:04:24.120 over and started to trying to deal with the fire 0:04:24.160 --> 0:04:26.760 a little bit. But but and it was moving so fast. 0:04:26.839 --> 0:04:28.760 It was so loud, that was one thing I had. 0:04:28.800 --> 0:04:31.880 It was surprising to me. It was just crushingly loud, 0:04:32.160 --> 0:04:36.479 like you couldn't yell and be heard the fire. It 0:04:36.560 --> 0:04:40.800 was just a and it moved so fast across the 0:04:40.839 --> 0:04:42.760 field and got to this line of trees we've got 0:04:42.760 --> 0:04:47.520 along our really long driveway and these green, well watered 0:04:47.560 --> 0:04:52.160 trees just turned into bombs, just flame bombs. It's just 0:04:52.320 --> 0:04:54.400 it was just it was like, how is this even happening? 0:04:54.880 --> 0:04:57.360 And I thought, Laura's got to get out of here. 0:04:57.480 --> 0:05:00.680 I ran back toward the house and realized she already gone. 0:05:00.760 --> 0:05:02.679 She had the kids and the dogs and a goat 0:05:03.120 --> 0:05:06.359 in my suv and had already driven down the driveway. 0:05:06.400 --> 0:05:09.080 I found out later through smoking flames because the flames 0:05:09.080 --> 0:05:11.920 are going across our driveway and uh, and got out 0:05:11.960 --> 0:05:13.800 of there, and the kids are screaming and they were 0:05:13.800 --> 0:05:15.560 afraid I was gonna die because they didn't know where 0:05:15.560 --> 0:05:18.000 I was. But there was one point where I had 0:05:18.120 --> 0:05:20.440 I had gotten a long hose over and I was 0:05:20.560 --> 0:05:24.279 spraying on the field and the trees that were on fire, 0:05:26.080 --> 0:05:28.320 trying to keep it across our driveway because I just 0:05:28.360 --> 0:05:32.360 felt if it crosses our long driveway, it's we're We're doomed, 0:05:32.400 --> 0:05:34.200 which turns out the fire department said, yeah, if it 0:05:34.240 --> 0:05:36.920 had gotten across your driveway, I think it wouldn't have 0:05:36.960 --> 0:05:39.400 stopped until it got to road. I'm not gonna give 0:05:39.480 --> 0:05:43.320 the name, Like three properties down and a mile down, 0:05:43.400 --> 0:05:45.120 he's I don't think we'd have stopped it until it 0:05:45.160 --> 0:05:47.320 got down there if it had crossed your driveway. And 0:05:47.400 --> 0:05:49.039 I'm standing out there at the hose and I'm just 0:05:49.080 --> 0:05:51.560 trying to get closer and closer, and it's hot, I mean, 0:05:51.640 --> 0:05:53.720 the flames are hot, and I can't breathe. And once 0:05:53.760 --> 0:05:56.480 the winds turned and I got covered with smoke and 0:05:56.480 --> 0:05:58.440 I kind of put my head down and I'm holding 0:05:58.440 --> 0:06:00.839 the hose, and then I realized I can't breathe anymore 0:06:00.839 --> 0:06:02.240 and I gotta get out, and I didn't know which 0:06:02.240 --> 0:06:05.200 direction was out. Then I'm kind of stumbling around and 0:06:05.240 --> 0:06:08.200 everything like that, and it's just black and I looked 0:06:08.240 --> 0:06:10.200 down at my shoes are part of my tennis shoes 0:06:10.200 --> 0:06:11.960 are melted, and I'm trying to figure out how to 0:06:12.000 --> 0:06:13.400 get out of here. And then I just to stumble 0:06:13.480 --> 0:06:15.400 far enough into and I'm coughing, and I got the 0:06:15.440 --> 0:06:18.279 hose and everything like that. Well then this fire chief 0:06:18.360 --> 0:06:21.680 vehicle comes comes flying down the driveway. He just comes 0:06:21.680 --> 0:06:25.680 out of the smoke, which I later realized that was 0:06:25.680 --> 0:06:28.200 probably the scariest thing that happened the whole night, the 0:06:28.240 --> 0:06:31.680 most danger we had, because my wife drove blind down 0:06:31.760 --> 0:06:34.440 the driveway in the smoke, and the fire chief told me, 0:06:34.480 --> 0:06:36.360 he said, I just took a he just I took 0:06:36.520 --> 0:06:38.080 he said, I took a flyer. I didn't know how 0:06:38.080 --> 0:06:40.000 long your driveway was. Were was on the other side, 0:06:40.000 --> 0:06:42.839 but I couldn't see anything. If they had at the 0:06:42.920 --> 0:06:47.440 same time been going thirty five minur and hit head on, 0:06:47.560 --> 0:06:50.880 that would have been that That was the biggest That 0:06:50.960 --> 0:06:54.240 was the biggest opportunity for for disaster right there, I mean, 0:06:54.279 --> 0:06:57.200 and and it was three minutes apart, maybe at most. 0:06:57.240 --> 0:06:58.880 I don't even know how long any of this took. 0:06:59.200 --> 0:07:02.240 I think the whole thing lasted fifteen minutes, but it 0:07:02.279 --> 0:07:04.039 seemed like a lifetime. But when I was in that 0:07:04.080 --> 0:07:06.599 smoke with the hose, I had I've only had that 0:07:06.600 --> 0:07:08.279 feeling a couple of times in my life where I 0:07:08.279 --> 0:07:10.920 thought this might be it, this might be it, this 0:07:11.040 --> 0:07:14.200 might actually be And I know that's what people think 0:07:14.320 --> 0:07:17.400 before they die. If you've ever read The Perfect Storm, 0:07:17.440 --> 0:07:21.160 there's a whole bunch of people that survived drowning. Some 0:07:21.240 --> 0:07:23.440 of them die and come back to life, and Jesus 0:07:23.480 --> 0:07:25.880 like and uh and or think they're gonna die. And 0:07:25.880 --> 0:07:27.800 that is what people think before they're gonna die. Wow, 0:07:27.840 --> 0:07:29.680 this might actually be it? And then it is it. 0:07:30.160 --> 0:07:32.120 People you know died That's what they were thinking before 0:07:32.160 --> 0:07:34.520 they died. Anyway, I was thinking, this might actually be it, 0:07:34.680 --> 0:07:37.640 This might actually be it. And then and then and 0:07:37.680 --> 0:07:39.440 then when I got out of the smoke and was 0:07:39.480 --> 0:07:41.600 able to to get enough air to breathe, and I 0:07:41.600 --> 0:07:44.280 thought this might act. We might actually lose our place here. 0:07:44.400 --> 0:07:47.720 This might actually happen here. Um uh and and and 0:07:47.840 --> 0:07:50.600 you know, and I was kind of at first, I 0:07:50.640 --> 0:07:52.040 had a bit of a feeling of what do I grab? 0:07:52.080 --> 0:07:55.720 What have I gotten? That? It's just there's no time 0:07:55.760 --> 0:08:00.280 and what the hell difference doesn't make anyway? Um, But 0:08:00.360 --> 0:08:02.120 I got the hose on the trees and stuff like that, 0:08:02.160 --> 0:08:04.840 and I feel like with the hose, I will tell you, 0:08:04.840 --> 0:08:06.560 if you ever one of these situations, a hose does 0:08:06.600 --> 0:08:08.760 a lot more good than I thought it would. I 0:08:08.800 --> 0:08:11.000 was thinking, is this ridiculous? Is this gonna do any 0:08:11.040 --> 0:08:15.080 good against this roaring fire? And it's just a regular 0:08:15.120 --> 0:08:19.320 garden hose. It actually was making a dent, I could tell. 0:08:19.480 --> 0:08:21.440 So it's worth it if you if you're ever in 0:08:21.440 --> 0:08:23.960 that situation, it would have catching on fire. But no, 0:08:24.040 --> 0:08:27.120 it's not worth dying over, but if you can safely 0:08:27.880 --> 0:08:30.160 do that. But I think I kept it from spreading 0:08:30.200 --> 0:08:32.839 that direction. And then the fire cruise with their big 0:08:32.880 --> 0:08:34.840 trucks and tankers were coming from the other way, and 0:08:34.880 --> 0:08:37.440 eventually they got on top of it and and and 0:08:37.480 --> 0:08:40.040 got it out, and it kept popping up various places, 0:08:40.040 --> 0:08:41.760 and we'd run around with hoses and try to put 0:08:41.760 --> 0:08:43.640 it out. And I don't know how many vehicles there 0:08:43.679 --> 0:08:46.199 were total total there at the end, eight ten vehicles, 0:08:46.280 --> 0:08:49.199 thirty people, something like that. How much you burned total, 0:08:49.320 --> 0:08:52.920 these folks, It was two acres, which you know, if 0:08:52.960 --> 0:08:56.319 I heard on the news about fire, two acres, that's nothing. 0:08:57.040 --> 0:09:00.679 Two acres. And the thing is it's on fire at once. Yes, 0:09:01.200 --> 0:09:03.640 two acres on fire at once is a lot of 0:09:03.760 --> 0:09:06.280 flame and a lot of heat and a tremendous amount 0:09:06.320 --> 0:09:08.800 of smoke. Laura showed me a picture she took from 0:09:08.800 --> 0:09:10.760 the fire station of our house, and I thought, holy cow, 0:09:10.760 --> 0:09:12.600 that's what it looked like while I was inside it, 0:09:13.040 --> 0:09:15.720 and it was, you know, it's just if it had 0:09:15.720 --> 0:09:19.320 been a windier day. And I told the fired guy, 0:09:19.360 --> 0:09:20.960 I said, I think if we had gotten at this 0:09:21.000 --> 0:09:23.320 ten minutes later, it had been over he said, oh yeah, 0:09:23.320 --> 0:09:26.839 ten minutes later, there would have been no stopping it. Yeah, 0:09:27.000 --> 0:09:29.960 it's just amazing stuff like that that happens in your life. Well, 0:09:30.200 --> 0:09:34.719 growing exponentially, like you're describing, ten minutes is forever. I 0:09:34.800 --> 0:09:36.400 was talking to the fire guy later. I said, I 0:09:36.800 --> 0:09:39.120 do broadcasting for a living. I said, if there's anything 0:09:39.200 --> 0:09:41.240 I could do where like I go give speeches to 0:09:41.280 --> 0:09:43.960 homeowners or something like that, and explained to him like 0:09:44.559 --> 0:09:47.240 I thought, I knew how fast fire moved, and know 0:09:47.280 --> 0:09:50.400 what a big deal you have no idea. It goes 0:09:50.559 --> 0:09:53.079 from it's a little fire over there in a corner too, 0:09:53.520 --> 0:09:56.199 you can't control it in a blink of an eye, 0:09:56.559 --> 0:10:00.240 and then it's you're gonna lose everything you've got in 0:10:00.280 --> 0:10:04.880 ten minutes. Yeah, it's just it's amazing. And it was 0:10:04.920 --> 0:10:07.360 a windy night, but nothing compared to the kind of 0:10:07.360 --> 0:10:10.360 wind we often have. And there's another lucky thing. If 0:10:10.400 --> 0:10:12.000 it had been one of those really windy nights, no 0:10:12.120 --> 0:10:15.800 stopping it, no no freaking chance. And there were goats 0:10:15.880 --> 0:10:20.960 running around, dogs running around, and I don't know what 0:10:20.960 --> 0:10:24.320 we're gonna do. I've got to ask you. Laura grabbed 0:10:25.040 --> 0:10:29.839 the one goat, did the other goats resent that are 0:10:29.880 --> 0:10:33.040 there going to be goat morale problems? Is the one 0:10:33.040 --> 0:10:37.000 goat gonna be looked down upon by the other goats? Yeah, 0:10:37.080 --> 0:10:39.320 and I think it was one of those. Here comes 0:10:39.360 --> 0:10:41.760 the king of the goats, they'll say, is the one goat. 0:10:42.880 --> 0:10:44.640 She didn't even know. She didn't even know what she 0:10:44.720 --> 0:10:46.600 was doing at the time, just like throwing stuff in 0:10:46.600 --> 0:10:49.120 the car. They saw a living thing and grabbed they 0:10:49.120 --> 0:10:50.960 couldn't get ahold of the dogs. Dogs were running a 0:10:51.040 --> 0:10:54.000 like crazy, and Sam tackled one of the pugs and 0:10:54.000 --> 0:10:56.880 and they got and got it in the vehicle and 0:10:56.920 --> 0:11:00.760 they're all screaming and crying. And I'm glad she took 0:11:00.760 --> 0:11:03.679 the initiative to drive out when she did, because it 0:11:03.679 --> 0:11:07.319 it it got so much worse so fast. I ran 0:11:07.360 --> 0:11:09.120 back to the house and say, you've got to go now, 0:11:09.160 --> 0:11:13.880 but she was already gone. Thank god. Um, I'll be damned. 0:11:14.080 --> 0:11:17.200 That's something I can't imagine. I can't imagine what it 0:11:17.200 --> 0:11:19.000 looks like if it if it gets bigger than that, 0:11:19.040 --> 0:11:23.840 because it was. It was hellish, just hellish. It took 0:11:23.840 --> 0:11:26.080 me so long to calm down from that. I can't 0:11:26.120 --> 0:11:30.400 imagine near Mrs are so I've almost had motorcycle rex 0:11:30.440 --> 0:11:31.960 before where I had to pull over and sit down 0:11:31.960 --> 0:11:34.760 on the curb for a while to like gather myself 0:11:34.800 --> 0:11:36.839 before I could drive on. And this was like one 0:11:36.880 --> 0:11:39.559 of those. Well, and you went to sleep in the 0:11:39.679 --> 0:11:42.959 very place where you know the craziness had happened, right, 0:11:43.040 --> 0:11:46.320 Oh yeah, so yeah, that's man. You sleep with one 0:11:46.360 --> 0:11:48.120 eye open, and both years I did, I had the 0:11:48.120 --> 0:11:50.040 shades open, and I kept waking up looking out the 0:11:50.040 --> 0:11:51.920 window to see if it started back up again. And 0:11:52.640 --> 0:11:55.960 oh god, it was something. It was absolutely freaking crazy. 0:11:56.040 --> 0:11:58.280 Those volunteer firefighters though they were, they were good at 0:11:58.320 --> 0:11:59.719 what they did. And thank God for him. And I 0:11:59.760 --> 0:12:01.439 don't know if I send him a fruit, booquet or 0:12:02.400 --> 0:12:04.079 gift cards. I don't know what you're supposed to do 0:12:04.120 --> 0:12:06.640 in that situation, but holy cow, without them might have 0:12:06.679 --> 0:12:09.760 been doomed with I mean, without a doubt. Yeah, yeah, 0:12:09.800 --> 0:12:15.319 that's noble work man, it's your firefighters. Oh yeah, yeah, Wow, 0:12:15.520 --> 0:12:20.160 Well glad everybody's all right? How still standing? Huh yeah? Yeah? 0:12:20.240 --> 0:12:23.400 And uh we I got a more that burnt to nothing. 0:12:23.679 --> 0:12:26.160 We had a but some boxes for ups had delivered, 0:12:26.160 --> 0:12:27.800 some big boxes full of stuff. Laura is not sure 0:12:27.880 --> 0:12:29.120 what was in him. She's gonna have to check the 0:12:29.120 --> 0:12:31.679 tracking wherever they're just gone. There's no evidence that they 0:12:31.679 --> 0:12:34.079 ever existed. And I had a more parked over there, 0:12:34.120 --> 0:12:36.120 like a string more. It's like a six hundred dollar 0:12:36.240 --> 0:12:38.960 more or something like that, and it's just some of 0:12:39.000 --> 0:12:42.640 the frame is there because those fires get so hot 0:12:42.880 --> 0:12:46.040 this metal and it's metal. They get so hot when 0:12:46.080 --> 0:12:49.160 the wind's bowing, and it's just it's just gone. I 0:12:49.160 --> 0:12:50.520 don't know if I'm gonna make a claim on the 0:12:50.520 --> 0:12:52.360 insurance or even try. I don't I don't know. I 0:12:52.360 --> 0:12:56.680 haven't figured any of this out yet, right uh Like, 0:12:56.679 --> 0:12:59.319 Like I kept telling the kids as we were going 0:12:59.360 --> 0:13:00.840 to bed and try trying to calm down. You know, 0:13:00.880 --> 0:13:04.400 everybody's fine. Everybody's fine, and that's that's fine. We buy 0:13:04.480 --> 0:13:06.800 we get new stuff. If everything disappeared and burned down, 0:13:06.880 --> 0:13:09.000 we'd get new stuff. Yeah, it'd take a while, but 0:13:09.080 --> 0:13:12.360 everything the important things. Everybody's fine. Next family lecture on 0:13:12.400 --> 0:13:18.200 fire safety, they'll have attentive listeners. Feel like yeah, no kid, yeah, yes, 0:13:18.520 --> 0:13:20.920 I don't know what. You have a giant tanker truck 0:13:21.040 --> 0:13:23.480 parked on your property. It's excellent advice that might be 0:13:23.520 --> 0:13:26.200 if you could afford it, good lord anyway, or just 0:13:26.280 --> 0:13:29.240 live on rock. Nothing would rock. I don't know. I 0:13:29.280 --> 0:13:30.920 don't know how long it'll take me to calm down 0:13:30.920 --> 0:13:33.199 from this. Like my heart, I feel like it's still 0:13:33.360 --> 0:13:35.439 my heart rate is still elevated from it. I did 0:13:35.480 --> 0:13:37.240 so much running around a man at my age and 0:13:37.320 --> 0:13:39.640 poor shape, running from here to there and getting another 0:13:39.679 --> 0:13:41.440 hose and trying to get it together and stuff like that, 0:13:41.480 --> 0:13:45.959 and I just I'm covered and smoken, my shoes are hot, 0:13:46.200 --> 0:13:49.280 and he's, oh, it's freaking crazy. It's good you didn't 0:13:49.320 --> 0:13:52.040 have a heart attack. Don't don't bother with a stress 0:13:52.080 --> 0:13:57.719 test at the cardiologist. There's no need for one.