Stories: Fire in the Chapel
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| Fire in the Chapel | 05 Feb 2002 |
| In the summer of 87, when we still lived in 505 Nagwon Apt. and had church in our living room, someone accidently left the windows open one day during a rain storm when no one was home. We had the traditional paper floor covering and soon the mildew set in pretty bad. We ripped up all of the rotten paper one P-Day and scrubbed the mildew off the floor, but just to be sure that it wouldn't grow back under the new paper, my companion Ho Hui, poured a small amount of gasoline in the one corner of the floor that had been the worst. He carefully moved the plastic can of gas across the room, but did not notice that the can had a leak in it and that he had left a little trail of gas from one corner of the room to the other. When he went back to the spot he had been working on he lit a match to burn up any remaining mildew spores, and the flame zipped between his feet, across the room and onto the gas can where the plastic immediately melted and turned the whole floor into a lake of fire. Not exactly what you want in your "chapel". We spent about ten mintues, though it seemed like longer, frantically beating the flames out with whatever we could grab. Only after it was all over, did we realize that what we had used to put out the fire was the other elders' good P-Day clothes. Their clothes were completely ruined, but our living room was saved. The next day we called a professional floor guy to come in and do the work for us. | |
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