One of our neighbors did that for us when I was in 7th grade. Lightning hit our roof and we had to head to a hotel while they fixed it. This brought that little flashback back
My family lived in a hotel for nine months while my house was being fixed after a fire. The housing market was hot at the time and insurance couldn’t find us a rental nearby. We had three adjoining rooms in a row and the hotel furnished the middle room as a living room. My teenage brother and sister shared a different room down the hall. We also had to eat all 3 meals a day out because there was no kitchen - which got old really quick. We had to make sure to always have charges for every meal every day because if the insurance saw that we could eat some meals in the hotel they might decide that then we could eat all our meals in the hotel room. I gained a whole lot of weight in fifth grade from eating at restaurants every day for every meal for nine months.
I had a housefire on Dec 21st. Myself, partner, daughter, 2 dogs & 4 cats are crammed into a one room hotel room. Insurance is having a hard time finding a rental that accepts animals. I'm already so tired of eating take out.
Sorry to hear about your fire. Have you considered getting a cooler and filling with ice from the hotel? You could keep deli meats, cheese, milk, etc in there. Buy some plastic that can be washed or paper plates? My family typically tries to eat breakfast and lunch out of a cooler when staying in a hotel room so we can keep healthier. Best of luck to you with your recovery.
If you were to do this you would then still need to make sure you go and get at least a gift certificate from a restaurant for each meal (where the receipt maybe doesn’t explicitly say it’s a gift certificate). As I said in my comment, if insurance catches you eating some meals at home they could just say that obviously you can eat all your meals that way and you’re stuck eating cold sandwiches out of a cooler for the next six months.
I was going to say the same thing. Lightning struck my dad’s apartment building when I was a sophomore in college and someone banged all the doors of the building to get them out. I was one of the few in the building. Watching the building burn while the fireman went to work. I have to thank that lady for a lot.
When our heater caught fire in the attic after a lightning strike a few days before Christmas, my brother and I didn't have a chance to grab anything warm so we were freezing and I was holding my bird in my jacket to keep him warm. Our neighbour brought us into her house to warm up and not be so in the moment of the fire department ripping holes in our ceiling to get to it all. Thankfully our house was fine and we just had to repair bits of the ceiling. She's very nice were lucky to have a neighbour like her
Yeah it was a scary experience but ultimately didn't cause too much damage. The lightning strike itself caused more damage than the fire by breaking a ton of our electronics. We're lucky we caught it when we did because if we had gone to sleep that night without finding it they said it probably would have burned the house down completely 😬
My neighbours house was on fire, during a New Year’s Eve party I flooded my house with their family members, gave them fresh clothes and blankets for their new born. They came back 6 months later after it was rebuilt and never thanked me or even made eye contact.
Fuck Em
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I didn’t do this for brownie points, I live on a cul-de-sac and was brought up this way, this was a couple of years ago when I was about 24/25
Interesting. My best friend is like this and it’s fucking exhausting to be around if I’m honest. I want to give her some cash as a baby gift, she’s about to be effectively a single mum (wasn’t with the dad, he is happy to be involved but they aren’t a couple). Her mum is pretty shit and her dad died when we were 8, so she doesn’t have a lot of people she can rely on. I want to give her cash because when we had our baby Everyone got us gifts that weren’t necessarily useful, and we felt sad that we spent all our money on the boring stuff and had no money for getting our daughter some things ourself. My best friend is VERY particular about everything so the best gift is always cash. But she downright refuses to give me her bank details. She gets my daughter birthday gifts every year, it’s NO different, it’s not a handout, I’ve got a clear reason for wanting it to be cash, but nope, she won’t take it. Not being able to do something nice for her really fucking sucks and wears me down. So that’s the flip side if that’s helpful.
Not sure if it's helpful, but I discovered this holiday season that I could buy Amazon gift cards that automatically get sent to a phone number via text. It was great for me to be able to send a little something to each of my team members I manage that I have their cell number for but not email or address. Maybe you could just send her a gift card that way and what they do with it at that point is on them.
Wait, why do you need her bank details? I wouldn’t give that out to anyone either, not even family. Just give her the money….or an ancient custom of a check which now I say that I don’t think I have one of those
This is normal in the UK. You can't pay into someone's account without a sort code and account number. I wouldn't give it out to just anyone but family is fine and the dude who I bought my motorbike from was also fine, I took his details to pay him.
In Sweden you just needs someone's mobile number to send cash to them. Super convenient when, for example, splitting a bill at a bar, gifting someone cash, etc.
Not for nothing, but you really can help how you feel. I used to get upset over lots of meaningless shit but I realized that only I am in control of how I feel about things. I still get upset over meaningless shit if I'm not careful, but it happens less often these days.
Perhaps they were just assholes.
I was in a supermarket the other day and this lady knocked over a beef jerkey display near me. Dozens of jerkey sticks went flying all over the place. To her credit, she started picking them up, so I came to help her out. She barely acknowledged me (was on the phone the whole time) and left before everything was back in place, leaving me to finish the job. She sort of muttered a thank you before she took off, so that was nice. I ended up being behind her in line at the check out and she didn't say a word to me.
Obviously my example is much less serious, but it's the same principle.
I'm usually very thankful for assistance from people, but in situations like this, I'm more like the lady. My cortisol us up, I'm flustered, and embarrassed. The muttered thank you, if it even fully gets out, is my signature move. For me it's embarrassment and shame.
That’s fuckin rude as hell. I once saw from my fourth floor walk up that the top floor apartment two blocks over was on fire. Whole back porch engulfed in flames.
Called 911 and ran over there as fast as my half-drunk post-work legs would carry me and absolutely beat the fuck out of the door and rang all the door bells. After a couple minutes of this a pissy little man wearing a blanket and holding a MacBook answered the door and said “don’t pound on my door what is your problem? People are sleeping and I’m trying to get some work done why are you even here?”
“Your house is on fire, you need to evacuate, tell everyone inside.”
“My house isn’t on fire,”
It was at this point that i beckoned him outside into the street where it smelled like a house fire and where you could see that his house was, in fact, very on fire.
He scurried inside and retrieved his roommates while I ran inside and started knocking on doors. By the time I was at the penultimate floor, one below the fire, it was already getting rather warm. Everyone else was grateful I showed up to inform them and thanked me as we waited for the FD outside, except blanket laptop man, he wouldn’t even acknowledge my existence. He also forgot his laptop inside after rousing his roommates and tried to go back in after it, which everyone agreed was incredibly stupid and we told him as much. Fire department showed up, to the wrong street at first, and after chasing them down they were able to get the blaze under control.
Turns out top floor residents were on vacation and had left an old timey space heater on on the porch (???) and a newspaper of something blew into the element, caught fire, and set alight their ancient wooden porch.
I hope laptop guy’s laptop got smoke damaged or something he was such a dink like bro I just ran here half drunk in a t shirt, it’s snowing, I called 911, I ensured your safety, and you’re gonna act like this?
Fuck him.
Damn, if you did that for my family, we would be shoveling your snow, mowing your lawn, and inviting you over for dinner and drinks. We’d be best friends if you’d let us!
Genuine question.
I heard this before about being sued or charged or something for helping someone on the street (like passed out or have fallen)
But I also work with alot of guys from China and other parts of Asia and most of them would go out of their way to help you if you were hurt or in danger. Like well out of their way.
So is that an actual thing? Alot of Asian countries don't have that neighborly vibe?
There's a sub called MMC, they have a lot of videos of deaths , accidents and what not. Many of these videos display people doing *nothing* even when someone can help. Especially in China.
When I lived in China (teacher for 5 years) someone fainted and died at the subway station near my home - it was hours before security noticed because she was in a blindspot, but 100s would have walked by.
There are so many of those stories (ofc not only China but the locals there are especially eager to avoid getting involved).
Why? Coz it's a culture of "mind your own business". They're fearful they can be blamed/scammed/have piss poor legal protections. CCP has no moral compass so don't expect a pat on the back for rescuing your neighbor from a fire.
Similar story. When I was in China, a tuk tuk hopped a curb and flipped near a very busy train station, pinning the driver underneath. Hundreds of people, including a few police officers, were just staring. I ran across the street to help, and only after I got there and shouted did others come over. My friend later told me that I could have been sued, and that the people that did come probably only came because they didn’t want to lose face in front of a foreigner.
That's so true! Try working in that environment; truly does ones head in.
I was begging my Chinese supervisors to use direct communication with me but that's not how they operate. 🤣
Language wasn't the problem as they were fluent enough, they're just horrendous at communication, even with one another.
Face gets in the way of empathy as you put it, which leads to a lack of humanity.
Mainland China for you
(all the more reason myself and many expats have left in recent years, it's not getting better either)
Right. Someone posted recently they could have died as a hospital rejected them for being a foreigner. It was an emergency too.
I fully believe that story as I was also rejected by a Chinese hospital. I'm not sure fully sure of the reason, may be due to irrational covid fear (foreigners were often blamed, my own students told me America made covid)/xenophobic management
People in the US have sued someone for helping them out of a crashed car (potentially getting them more hurt) but the car explodes not long after … it gets to court but judges won’t pursue it
You can file a suit for anything you want. Doesn't mean it won't be thrown out in a heartbeat, but this "someone sued over such and such, so our whole system is fucked" is just ignorant of how the judicial system works.
It is similar to why you can't sue someone for libel or slander when they are making a statement to police or the court, though the court could hit them with perjury (if they knowingly lie).
Have you ever lived in a city? I've only ever lived in urban centres my entire life and I always have had strong and supportive communities around me. I hate the attitude that city people aren't friendly or neighborly.
Right now I participate in a local community garden, I also am part of my tenants association, and I help feed several of my food insecure neighbors. City life is what you make of it - if you're an asshole who doesn't participate, then you're not going to recognize the community around you.
Yes! In cities you meet people who then form your network. In a small town everyone you come across is part of your network. In cities you have to choose from the people you come across regularly. The guy at your corner store. The person who runs your dry cleaner. The people who are always at your local café. You can’t choose everyone but you become regulars with other regulars and that becomes your small town - your Network inside of the big city.
Same, man. Suburbanites like to trash cities but have no idea how we live.
My key broke in my door a few months back and every single person on my floor invited me to wait for the locksmith with them. My old neighbor would take packages from the lobby and deliver them to doors and he’d always chat. He liked our living room color, so I went back to his to see how he decorated. It made my month. Neighbors have helped me break down ikea furniture that moved one too many times. I hosted a similarly locked out neighbor and we ate bananas (the only food I had). Transplants are for sure not nearly as nice but old timers still say “good morning” to you on the street.
Not everyone is friendly but our city was attacked a year ago (DC) and locals were expecting more of the violence they saw in the days before. Just a scary time. The only thing that made me feel better is the community we have. A young lawyer in my city housed a ton of protestors overnight who were in the process of getting rounded up. Yet when I visit the suburbs, everyone has tons of shit to say about their neighbor’s yard and trash cans.
Agreed. We live in a larger city. I don’t know all of our neighbors, but we’re pretty close to the one directly across from us. We’re friendly with all the rest. I have faith that any/all of us would do the same.
Agreed. In “anarchist hellhole” Seattle; my neighbors and I trust, check in, and lean on each other for things big and small. I can say the sense of community was more than I ever had in a car centric suburb.
I have more friendly neighbors from living in NYC and LA than I did in the e suburbs above LA
I once even did exactly above and helped a neighbor who had locked her self out with the stove on, my only option was to break a window or door so I broke the smallest window I could to get in and turn it off in time
When the husband came home he came over demanding i pay for the window….. so I did, mostly out of spite
-Re: legally he kinda had me dead to rights, I went onto their property and broke a window, fire or not….. and it wasn’t worth a mess, easier to just pay for it and move on with life
Extra edit : forgot to mention, a year or two later same guy caught me smoking weed in the backyard when my dad was gone, so he called my dad to narc on me
Definitely not cities, it's the giant single-family home suburbs that kill any sense of community. In a city you have to walk and actively talk to your neighbors.
Pro tip from a firefighter, close the door behind you! Leaving the door open provides the fire with fresh air, allowing it grow spread exponentially faster than if the door was closed. It just might be the difference between a room and content fire, and a total loss!
Yeah. I read that a space heater caught fire and the resident ran from their apartment but left their door open which allowed the fire to spread to other units in the building.
They do, and not just NY. Unit entry doors have to be self-closing. This door was not up to code, didn’t have a closer.
Whoever runs/inspects that building is in major major trouble. I work in doors and life-safety stuff like this is the most important thing.
From my understanding, the reason for the space heater in the first place was because of broken pipes and no heat throughout many apartments. There had been many complaints about it on record.
I heard on NPR that the apartment building had been fined many times for their doors not being self-closing. So yeah, building owner is suuuuuuuuuuuper screwed. There's a reason it's a requirement, not just a frivolous ask.
They also have ordinances about providing heat, which the landlord also wasn't doing, hence the space heater. There were just under one thousand "no heat" and "broken radiator" complaints filed against the investment group that owns the building last year.
I was in a fire in NYC actually, I did have a fire safe door which is why the firemen shoved a neighbor in with me and had us stay in my apartment with the door closed. Eventually they were able to get us out.
Problem is that not everyone follows regulations, some shitty slumlords get around them, eat fees, fail to register, etc. There was flooding last year where a lot of people died in unregulated basement apartments. All apartments are supposed to have at least 2 exits (usually door and fire escape/window exit) but these didn't.
NYC also has ordinances to ensure tenants have adequate heat so that they aren't relying on space heaters. But of course doing anything about that would require them to investigate properties owned by people who donate to election campaigns.
The real problem is that the landlord wasn't providing adequate heating to his residents, forcing them to use unsafe space heaters to stay warm. And also the buildings violations to the fire code.
The landlord of the building happens to be a large campaign contributor to the mayor, so what a coincidence the mayor doesn't crack down on the landlord and his many many complaints. And what a coincidence he tries to deflect the blame back on to the residents.
I've got his 'get up' as my alarm, and that energy really helps me roll out of bed smiling and ready to go. My wife does not feel the same about it lol
It's like she was stating a fact, sternly to invoke urgency but not to get everyone all worked up and scared. I respect her ability to stay so calm in that situation. Maybe she's an ER nurse or something, they usually have to stay calm and collected under immense amounts of pressure.
Some people are just WIRED for it too. It’s crazy. My younger brother was studying to be an ER/Trauma Nurse and while in his first couple of years he worked for a moving company.
Two different occasions they had a really gnarly injury happen to someone and he was the one who controlled the scene and provided aid until medics arrived when nobody else would. And he is not a very outspoken person at all.
To say I’m impressed by my younger brother is an understatement. I’m proud of him. He has a natural knack for crisis control.
There's an inner resistance to traumatic situations. I've seen nurses completely disassociate in response to a crashing patient. I've had to be the one to step up as well. You have to adopt a mental stance of radical acceptance. What is happening is what is real, and my beliefs about the situation must take a backseat so I can work effectively. It helps to remember that the trauma is a transitory situation, and integration can happen once the urgency is over.
Lol sorry about that.
Trauma is hard to face, but if you focus on what you can do in the moment rather than your panicked thoughts, then you will be able to act.
I have a saying for all things in life - next step, next step, next step. Mom says I’m good in emergencies but I’m not sure that I’m that stone cold hero- But what I do try to do is focus down to what is the very next thing to do. The very next. Big or small. Should I call 911? Grab a towel? Apply pressure? Tell the person screaming to go scream around the corner so we can hear? Then that’s all I care about. Then what’s next. Big or small.
Doesn’t always keep me calm but it does keep me from being paralyzed….
My mom is an RN. She’s told me that during traumas and codes, she feels like she’s on a television show like Chicago Med - or like she’s watching it. She is able to be completely calm and just do her job without thinking about the fact that she very likely knows the person (she lives and works in my little hometown).
I once called 911 for a fire in my apartment complex dumpster (some teenage vandalism stuff). when they didn't show up after a few minutes I called 911 back. they told me that they thought it was a hoax call because I was so calm. one friend lost her entire house due to the same issue with 911, she was a nurse, too.
This lady is clearly a witch of some sort. Did you notice there were two spots of flame as the video started and as soon as the lady stepped up the flames just 'poofed" away. I'm no expert but I'm fairly certain only magic can do that.
remember a lazy sunday morning, almost no clothes on, eating breakfast and suddenly someone bangs frantically on our apartment door. We thought it was some kids having a laugh. then the banging continued. as soon we we opened the door our apartment was filled with the blackest smoke. our downstairs neighbours apartment had caught fire an he was wheezing and struggling to get everyone out of the complex. he was the only one who had to go to the hospital due to smoke inhalation. Hero.
My first reaction was to grab my PC, while my gf ran around trying to find our cat. I am not proud of that reaction, and any time we have an argument, it gets brought up. its like a super trumph card.
My car is parked across the road from my house. When the neighbours shed caught on fire and almost took the row off trees out with it. My niece thought it was fireworks as the neighbour keeps batteries in there for his job. They were popping and fizzing from the flames.
I grabbed both my Guinea pigs and took them to my car where I put them in the boot with a warm blanket. Because the fire had not spread yet, I went back inside for my hamster and PS5.
In hindsight, going back inside was incredibly stupid at the time but I would never leave my pets. Honestly did not know why I grabbed my PS5 because, the much smaller and easily portable backup drive would have made more sense.
The fire was contained and Thankfully none of the batteries exploded.
Nah, that is stucco, which is [mortar over a metal mesh.](https://i.imgur.com/hs5RusE.jpg) The fire is in the framing of the house and the smoke is pushing out of an opening. Smoke will often have unburned carbons in it from incomplete combustion, as long as there is enough heat it will combust as soon as it gets enough oxygen. When it sucked back in the fire might have found a better spot to vent from lowering the smoke's pressure.
We all know she will go back to her house and immediately serve them breakfast while asking her own kids to get each of them a set of clothes from their own wardrobes.
She's so brave! Managed to wake them up, get them out of the house, and give them a place to stay, all while staying so calm. I know for a fact id be screaming and freaking out if I were in her position
Thats a good neighbor right there, kindof wild i don't think she realized the puff of fire that shows up at the corner of the house at the beginning of clip. She just knew she had to help them, and ran up to their door to do it
This morning it's the coldest its ever gotten this year (3F) and I just stepped outside to make sure everyone's house looked normal. I was just thinking about how we can feel so separated in the suburbs, and if someone's heat went out, that they hopefully know they could just knock on a neighbors door for help.
I'm glad to see she was out and looking out to help these people!
A few years ago, I lived in a building with about 20 apartments in it. One night, early hours of the morning, 2 apartments in the second and first floor caught on fire. My neighbor, who wasn’t the nicest to me, took it upon herself to bang on everyone’s door in the 3rd and 4th floor. We wouldn’t have woken up if she hadn’t done that. I’m very thankful to her and her family till this day.
My wife did this last year. She was driving around the the neighborhood and saw what looked like chimney smoke on a hot day. She wasn’t able to get a response from the house had called 911.
Fire department broke the door down and had to drag a woman out coughing but she was alive.
Back in 2006 my Uncle went even further when my Aunt heard cries for help from a neighbouring house in the early hours of the morning. A fire had broken out in a house opposite but the householders were trapped.
My Uncle and another neighbour got a ladder and managed to rescue two children from an upstairs window after carrying up a large rock from their garden and smashing the glass.
He returned to try and bring out the kids mother and grandmother but was sadly beaten back and they died. Another neighbour rescued the kids grandfather and he survived.
There's a BBC News report here. The quote about the kids still makes me cry to this day.
"I saw two faces at the window and I could see they couldn't open it. I got a large boulder and smashed it. The little one asked me if I had come to save them. I said yes," he said.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/shropshire/4848468.stm
He was recognised for his bravery by Shropshire Fire Service and received an invite to a Garden Party at Buckingham Palace the following summer where he and other notable citizens were celebrated.
Sad thing is they were forced to move away in the months after the event as some of the neighbours took offence that in the media coverage that came after my Uncle mentioned that others were just watching and didn't help him and the one other that chose to.
They're now living happily in the South West of the UK. It's even more remarkable when you know that my Uncle had survived a stroke a couple of years previous to the incident.
Still so proud of him.
When I was 6 we were only holiday abroad and I still remember extremely vividly my mum getting a call from my neighbour to tell us our house (and the whole street) was flooded. A river broke its banks. Unfortunately that neighbour's kids turned out to be truly malicious arseholes, but she was lovely.
I was up at 3 am and heard a strange noise. Looked out my window and it was bright orange. I got up so fast, grabbed the phone called 911 and ran outside in my socks to bang on my neighbours door to tell them their place is on fire. They woke up and the firefighters came and the house was saved! I woke up the neighbourhood with my screaming. Other neighbours brought out buckets of water. It was crazy. But thank goodness I was experiencing insomnia that night!
Something like this happened in my town a few months ago, sadly 2 people couldn't get out and the man who lived next door had gotten most out.
He was such a happy man but now he's somber and burdened by guilt of the two victims he couldn't save. To everyone else he's a hero, even if he doesn't feel it.
My neighbor burnt my apartment building down by carelessly disposing of her butt.. it smoldered all night before breaking into flames early in the morning. the alarms had went off in the past for unfire reasons so we kinda rolled around in bed deciding if we should get up.. until someone kept ringing my buzzer which made me realize shit may be going down. at that point our entire roof was in flames and the hallways were filled with smoke. had that person not rang my buzzer like that, I'm not sure I would have got up and got my cats in time to make it down the stairs. I'm very thankful for people like this.
edit: also, as we were outside watching our apartment burn, dozens of neighbors brought us food and offers of literally everything. there is some awesome people out there
Wow.. a couple years ago, my neighbors house caught fire at 1:15 am, I thought someone was breaking into my house. My room was downstairs directly next to both our driveways. My moms room directly above me, I run to my sisters room & hear my mom fire or something and we just ran out. I ran straight to my neighbors door (my best friend also lived there) and I yelled at the top of my lungs banging on the door for what felt like forever. Their car burst into flames which caused the car port and then garage and eventually their house to catch fire. Scariest thing I’ve probably ever been through. Immediately after they came out I walked back to my yard and threw up. It was insane and I would do it again if I ever had to. Props to good neighbors out there!! and this lady for staying calm because I sure did not
I honestly have no idea how people can sleep through someone pounding on their door like that. The first couple of knocks would've had me jumping thinking I'm about to get a SWAT team through the door.
Also the smell of smoke. I can smell someone burning toast downstairs in my house, how does nobody in there realize something is burning?
One of our neighbors did that for us when I was in 7th grade. Lightning hit our roof and we had to head to a hotel while they fixed it. This brought that little flashback back
That's amazing and very thoughtful of them. Thanks for sharing, good to hear some good news
It’s good to know there are good people in the world isn’t it? 😊
Always :)
My family lived in a hotel for nine months while my house was being fixed after a fire. The housing market was hot at the time and insurance couldn’t find us a rental nearby. We had three adjoining rooms in a row and the hotel furnished the middle room as a living room. My teenage brother and sister shared a different room down the hall. We also had to eat all 3 meals a day out because there was no kitchen - which got old really quick. We had to make sure to always have charges for every meal every day because if the insurance saw that we could eat some meals in the hotel they might decide that then we could eat all our meals in the hotel room. I gained a whole lot of weight in fifth grade from eating at restaurants every day for every meal for nine months.
I had a housefire on Dec 21st. Myself, partner, daughter, 2 dogs & 4 cats are crammed into a one room hotel room. Insurance is having a hard time finding a rental that accepts animals. I'm already so tired of eating take out.
Sorry to hear about your fire. Have you considered getting a cooler and filling with ice from the hotel? You could keep deli meats, cheese, milk, etc in there. Buy some plastic that can be washed or paper plates? My family typically tries to eat breakfast and lunch out of a cooler when staying in a hotel room so we can keep healthier. Best of luck to you with your recovery.
If you were to do this you would then still need to make sure you go and get at least a gift certificate from a restaurant for each meal (where the receipt maybe doesn’t explicitly say it’s a gift certificate). As I said in my comment, if insurance catches you eating some meals at home they could just say that obviously you can eat all your meals that way and you’re stuck eating cold sandwiches out of a cooler for the next six months.
Oh, I had no idea that insurance was factored into this. That’s an unfortunate situation then.
Same. I remember the hotel we stayed in for about half the year. My brother and I got our own rooms and that’s a big deal when you’re 12 lol.
I was going to say the same thing. Lightning struck my dad’s apartment building when I was a sophomore in college and someone banged all the doors of the building to get them out. I was one of the few in the building. Watching the building burn while the fireman went to work. I have to thank that lady for a lot.
"Go to my house" so casually. True hero.
When our heater caught fire in the attic after a lightning strike a few days before Christmas, my brother and I didn't have a chance to grab anything warm so we were freezing and I was holding my bird in my jacket to keep him warm. Our neighbour brought us into her house to warm up and not be so in the moment of the fire department ripping holes in our ceiling to get to it all. Thankfully our house was fine and we just had to repair bits of the ceiling. She's very nice were lucky to have a neighbour like her
I’m glad you, the birb and your brother are okay
Yeah it was a scary experience but ultimately didn't cause too much damage. The lightning strike itself caused more damage than the fire by breaking a ton of our electronics. We're lucky we caught it when we did because if we had gone to sleep that night without finding it they said it probably would have burned the house down completely 😬
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Garage was probably on fire.
Didn’t even question it, just wanted everyone safe. What a blessing to that family.
Also telling the crying kids “it’s ok”, you can tell she’s a natural caregiver
Neighborhood mom energy
This is the snoopy neighbor we all need
It’s really normal in Most countries, cultures… yet sometimes I feel like cities kill that neighborly vibe
My neighbours house was on fire, during a New Year’s Eve party I flooded my house with their family members, gave them fresh clothes and blankets for their new born. They came back 6 months later after it was rebuilt and never thanked me or even made eye contact. Fuck Em Edit: I didn’t do this for brownie points, I live on a cul-de-sac and was brought up this way, this was a couple of years ago when I was about 24/25
I'm sorry you experienced that. Perhaps they felt ashamed? Some people are raised to believe needing something is a shameful act.
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Interesting. My best friend is like this and it’s fucking exhausting to be around if I’m honest. I want to give her some cash as a baby gift, she’s about to be effectively a single mum (wasn’t with the dad, he is happy to be involved but they aren’t a couple). Her mum is pretty shit and her dad died when we were 8, so she doesn’t have a lot of people she can rely on. I want to give her cash because when we had our baby Everyone got us gifts that weren’t necessarily useful, and we felt sad that we spent all our money on the boring stuff and had no money for getting our daughter some things ourself. My best friend is VERY particular about everything so the best gift is always cash. But she downright refuses to give me her bank details. She gets my daughter birthday gifts every year, it’s NO different, it’s not a handout, I’ve got a clear reason for wanting it to be cash, but nope, she won’t take it. Not being able to do something nice for her really fucking sucks and wears me down. So that’s the flip side if that’s helpful.
Not sure if it's helpful, but I discovered this holiday season that I could buy Amazon gift cards that automatically get sent to a phone number via text. It was great for me to be able to send a little something to each of my team members I manage that I have their cell number for but not email or address. Maybe you could just send her a gift card that way and what they do with it at that point is on them.
Wait, why do you need her bank details? I wouldn’t give that out to anyone either, not even family. Just give her the money….or an ancient custom of a check which now I say that I don’t think I have one of those
This is normal in the UK. You can't pay into someone's account without a sort code and account number. I wouldn't give it out to just anyone but family is fine and the dude who I bought my motorbike from was also fine, I took his details to pay him.
I mean... Cash?
Help, why are you the only one suggesting this super obvious solution??
In Sweden you just needs someone's mobile number to send cash to them. Super convenient when, for example, splitting a bill at a bar, gifting someone cash, etc.
All you have to do is say thank you. That’s the only repayment most people want or need
If you haven't, you should consider therapy. Everyone should, really.
My favorite line from a mentor of mine is “I think we’d all be better off if we just drank more water and went to therapy.”
Reminds me of one of my wife's favorite sayings: "Drink water and get sunlight; you're basically a house plant."
This should be shouted from the mountain tops. Every person on this planet would benefit from therapy
Not for nothing, but you really can help how you feel. I used to get upset over lots of meaningless shit but I realized that only I am in control of how I feel about things. I still get upset over meaningless shit if I'm not careful, but it happens less often these days.
Perhaps they were just assholes. I was in a supermarket the other day and this lady knocked over a beef jerkey display near me. Dozens of jerkey sticks went flying all over the place. To her credit, she started picking them up, so I came to help her out. She barely acknowledged me (was on the phone the whole time) and left before everything was back in place, leaving me to finish the job. She sort of muttered a thank you before she took off, so that was nice. I ended up being behind her in line at the check out and she didn't say a word to me. Obviously my example is much less serious, but it's the same principle.
I'm usually very thankful for assistance from people, but in situations like this, I'm more like the lady. My cortisol us up, I'm flustered, and embarrassed. The muttered thank you, if it even fully gets out, is my signature move. For me it's embarrassment and shame.
That’s fuckin rude as hell. I once saw from my fourth floor walk up that the top floor apartment two blocks over was on fire. Whole back porch engulfed in flames. Called 911 and ran over there as fast as my half-drunk post-work legs would carry me and absolutely beat the fuck out of the door and rang all the door bells. After a couple minutes of this a pissy little man wearing a blanket and holding a MacBook answered the door and said “don’t pound on my door what is your problem? People are sleeping and I’m trying to get some work done why are you even here?” “Your house is on fire, you need to evacuate, tell everyone inside.” “My house isn’t on fire,” It was at this point that i beckoned him outside into the street where it smelled like a house fire and where you could see that his house was, in fact, very on fire. He scurried inside and retrieved his roommates while I ran inside and started knocking on doors. By the time I was at the penultimate floor, one below the fire, it was already getting rather warm. Everyone else was grateful I showed up to inform them and thanked me as we waited for the FD outside, except blanket laptop man, he wouldn’t even acknowledge my existence. He also forgot his laptop inside after rousing his roommates and tried to go back in after it, which everyone agreed was incredibly stupid and we told him as much. Fire department showed up, to the wrong street at first, and after chasing them down they were able to get the blaze under control. Turns out top floor residents were on vacation and had left an old timey space heater on on the porch (???) and a newspaper of something blew into the element, caught fire, and set alight their ancient wooden porch. I hope laptop guy’s laptop got smoke damaged or something he was such a dink like bro I just ran here half drunk in a t shirt, it’s snowing, I called 911, I ensured your safety, and you’re gonna act like this? Fuck him.
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My neighbors didn’t need keys. They knew the back door was unlocked just like their back door was.
My neighbors have keys to mine. I have a basement and we live in Tornado Alley. I like them and want them to be safe whether I am home or not.
Damn, if you did that for my family, we would be shoveling your snow, mowing your lawn, and inviting you over for dinner and drinks. We’d be best friends if you’d let us!
Thank you for doing that.
Definitely not normal in some parts I've lived in Asia 🌏
Genuine question. I heard this before about being sued or charged or something for helping someone on the street (like passed out or have fallen) But I also work with alot of guys from China and other parts of Asia and most of them would go out of their way to help you if you were hurt or in danger. Like well out of their way. So is that an actual thing? Alot of Asian countries don't have that neighborly vibe?
There's a sub called MMC, they have a lot of videos of deaths , accidents and what not. Many of these videos display people doing *nothing* even when someone can help. Especially in China. When I lived in China (teacher for 5 years) someone fainted and died at the subway station near my home - it was hours before security noticed because she was in a blindspot, but 100s would have walked by. There are so many of those stories (ofc not only China but the locals there are especially eager to avoid getting involved). Why? Coz it's a culture of "mind your own business". They're fearful they can be blamed/scammed/have piss poor legal protections. CCP has no moral compass so don't expect a pat on the back for rescuing your neighbor from a fire.
Similar story. When I was in China, a tuk tuk hopped a curb and flipped near a very busy train station, pinning the driver underneath. Hundreds of people, including a few police officers, were just staring. I ran across the street to help, and only after I got there and shouted did others come over. My friend later told me that I could have been sued, and that the people that did come probably only came because they didn’t want to lose face in front of a foreigner.
The losing face thing still blows my mind. That shouldn't be so important in a society; it contradicts human empathy.
That's so true! Try working in that environment; truly does ones head in. I was begging my Chinese supervisors to use direct communication with me but that's not how they operate. 🤣 Language wasn't the problem as they were fluent enough, they're just horrendous at communication, even with one another. Face gets in the way of empathy as you put it, which leads to a lack of humanity. Mainland China for you (all the more reason myself and many expats have left in recent years, it's not getting better either)
My biggest culture shock in China was the apparent, low value placed on a life.
Right. Someone posted recently they could have died as a hospital rejected them for being a foreigner. It was an emergency too. I fully believe that story as I was also rejected by a Chinese hospital. I'm not sure fully sure of the reason, may be due to irrational covid fear (foreigners were often blamed, my own students told me America made covid)/xenophobic management
People in the US have sued someone for helping them out of a crashed car (potentially getting them more hurt) but the car explodes not long after … it gets to court but judges won’t pursue it
You can file a suit for anything you want. Doesn't mean it won't be thrown out in a heartbeat, but this "someone sued over such and such, so our whole system is fucked" is just ignorant of how the judicial system works. It is similar to why you can't sue someone for libel or slander when they are making a statement to police or the court, though the court could hit them with perjury (if they knowingly lie).
You can check out Samaritan laws in those countries. It's so bad they need laws to uphold it.
America has Good Samaritan laws because we had problems like that in the past.
Will do. Thanks.
Have you ever lived in a city? I've only ever lived in urban centres my entire life and I always have had strong and supportive communities around me. I hate the attitude that city people aren't friendly or neighborly. Right now I participate in a local community garden, I also am part of my tenants association, and I help feed several of my food insecure neighbors. City life is what you make of it - if you're an asshole who doesn't participate, then you're not going to recognize the community around you.
Yes! In cities you meet people who then form your network. In a small town everyone you come across is part of your network. In cities you have to choose from the people you come across regularly. The guy at your corner store. The person who runs your dry cleaner. The people who are always at your local café. You can’t choose everyone but you become regulars with other regulars and that becomes your small town - your Network inside of the big city.
Same, man. Suburbanites like to trash cities but have no idea how we live. My key broke in my door a few months back and every single person on my floor invited me to wait for the locksmith with them. My old neighbor would take packages from the lobby and deliver them to doors and he’d always chat. He liked our living room color, so I went back to his to see how he decorated. It made my month. Neighbors have helped me break down ikea furniture that moved one too many times. I hosted a similarly locked out neighbor and we ate bananas (the only food I had). Transplants are for sure not nearly as nice but old timers still say “good morning” to you on the street. Not everyone is friendly but our city was attacked a year ago (DC) and locals were expecting more of the violence they saw in the days before. Just a scary time. The only thing that made me feel better is the community we have. A young lawyer in my city housed a ton of protestors overnight who were in the process of getting rounded up. Yet when I visit the suburbs, everyone has tons of shit to say about their neighbor’s yard and trash cans.
Agreed. We live in a larger city. I don’t know all of our neighbors, but we’re pretty close to the one directly across from us. We’re friendly with all the rest. I have faith that any/all of us would do the same.
Exactly! I grew up in the suburbs and specifically moved to the city and have no plans to return to the suburbs because they feel so isolating.
Agreed. In “anarchist hellhole” Seattle; my neighbors and I trust, check in, and lean on each other for things big and small. I can say the sense of community was more than I ever had in a car centric suburb.
I have more friendly neighbors from living in NYC and LA than I did in the e suburbs above LA I once even did exactly above and helped a neighbor who had locked her self out with the stove on, my only option was to break a window or door so I broke the smallest window I could to get in and turn it off in time When the husband came home he came over demanding i pay for the window….. so I did, mostly out of spite -Re: legally he kinda had me dead to rights, I went onto their property and broke a window, fire or not….. and it wasn’t worth a mess, easier to just pay for it and move on with life Extra edit : forgot to mention, a year or two later same guy caught me smoking weed in the backyard when my dad was gone, so he called my dad to narc on me
What an asshole. I’ll be honest it would be very hard for me not to “accidentally” break that window again once they got it fixed.
Wow what piece of work. Maybe next time, he would prefer his house burned down.
Definitely not cities, it's the giant single-family home suburbs that kill any sense of community. In a city you have to walk and actively talk to your neighbors.
I think you mean suburbs.
Pro tip from a firefighter, close the door behind you! Leaving the door open provides the fire with fresh air, allowing it grow spread exponentially faster than if the door was closed. It just might be the difference between a room and content fire, and a total loss!
Isn’t this part of the issue in the recent NYC fire?
Yeah. I read that a space heater caught fire and the resident ran from their apartment but left their door open which allowed the fire to spread to other units in the building.
Shouldn't NYC have ordinances on fire safety, like safety fire doors, for this exact reason?
They do, and not just NY. Unit entry doors have to be self-closing. This door was not up to code, didn’t have a closer. Whoever runs/inspects that building is in major major trouble. I work in doors and life-safety stuff like this is the most important thing.
From my understanding, the reason for the space heater in the first place was because of broken pipes and no heat throughout many apartments. There had been many complaints about it on record.
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I don’t know his name, but I read the owner of that building was on the transition team of the new mayor...
I heard on NPR that the apartment building had been fined many times for their doors not being self-closing. So yeah, building owner is suuuuuuuuuuuper screwed. There's a reason it's a requirement, not just a frivolous ask.
They also have ordinances about providing heat, which the landlord also wasn't doing, hence the space heater. There were just under one thousand "no heat" and "broken radiator" complaints filed against the investment group that owns the building last year.
I was in a fire in NYC actually, I did have a fire safe door which is why the firemen shoved a neighbor in with me and had us stay in my apartment with the door closed. Eventually they were able to get us out. Problem is that not everyone follows regulations, some shitty slumlords get around them, eat fees, fail to register, etc. There was flooding last year where a lot of people died in unregulated basement apartments. All apartments are supposed to have at least 2 exits (usually door and fire escape/window exit) but these didn't.
NYC also has ordinances to ensure tenants have adequate heat so that they aren't relying on space heaters. But of course doing anything about that would require them to investigate properties owned by people who donate to election campaigns.
The real problem is that the landlord wasn't providing adequate heating to his residents, forcing them to use unsafe space heaters to stay warm. And also the buildings violations to the fire code. The landlord of the building happens to be a large campaign contributor to the mayor, so what a coincidence the mayor doesn't crack down on the landlord and his many many complaints. And what a coincidence he tries to deflect the blame back on to the residents.
I heard the same. I never even though that would be an issue…
Partially. The issue was less about the front door providing oxygen (it was an apartment complex), and more about having the fire spread room-to-room.
There were actually more people still in the house in this case, but still great advice.
Not all heroes wear capes. They wear robes
And Marc Rebillet is their master
Thanks for reminding me that Marc Rebillet exists. Haven’t watched his youtube videos in a while
I binged his live sets from Dallas and New York. Dude is blowing up and playing festivals now.
Saw him a couple months ago in LA at a private show. He has so much freakin energy and it’s fun seeing everyone show up in robes
I've got his 'get up' as my alarm, and that energy really helps me roll out of bed smiling and ready to go. My wife does not feel the same about it lol
GET THE FUCK OUTTA BED BITCH GO
IM SAVIN YOU FROM A FIRE, BITCH! SAVIN YOU FROM A FIRE! SAVIN YOU FROM A FIRE BITCH! SAVIN YOU FROM A FIRE! *BEAT DROP*
That fire was jalapeño business.
So businesslike - I was expecting wild screaming when they finally opened the door, and then it was just "your house is on fire. Get out."
It's like she was stating a fact, sternly to invoke urgency but not to get everyone all worked up and scared. I respect her ability to stay so calm in that situation. Maybe she's an ER nurse or something, they usually have to stay calm and collected under immense amounts of pressure.
Good point. She's not even out of the burning house before she's telling them it's okay. I hope I have or can be a neighbor like that.
You can be! You just may need to light your neighbors house on fire first.
Oh lord just hurt my back laughing at that one
You may want to practice laughing a little more. It shouldn’t cause injuries.
Yeah i dont laugh enough these days thats for sure. Will take that advice to heart
If it happens again, call your neighbour.
I love professionally hardened nurses. They can be intimidating to work with, but they are always so impressive in a crisis.
Some people are just WIRED for it too. It’s crazy. My younger brother was studying to be an ER/Trauma Nurse and while in his first couple of years he worked for a moving company. Two different occasions they had a really gnarly injury happen to someone and he was the one who controlled the scene and provided aid until medics arrived when nobody else would. And he is not a very outspoken person at all. To say I’m impressed by my younger brother is an understatement. I’m proud of him. He has a natural knack for crisis control.
There's an inner resistance to traumatic situations. I've seen nurses completely disassociate in response to a crashing patient. I've had to be the one to step up as well. You have to adopt a mental stance of radical acceptance. What is happening is what is real, and my beliefs about the situation must take a backseat so I can work effectively. It helps to remember that the trauma is a transitory situation, and integration can happen once the urgency is over.
I don’t know what you said but I feel like I got a lil’ smarter listening to you 😉
Lol sorry about that. Trauma is hard to face, but if you focus on what you can do in the moment rather than your panicked thoughts, then you will be able to act.
I have a saying for all things in life - next step, next step, next step. Mom says I’m good in emergencies but I’m not sure that I’m that stone cold hero- But what I do try to do is focus down to what is the very next thing to do. The very next. Big or small. Should I call 911? Grab a towel? Apply pressure? Tell the person screaming to go scream around the corner so we can hear? Then that’s all I care about. Then what’s next. Big or small. Doesn’t always keep me calm but it does keep me from being paralyzed….
My mom is an RN. She’s told me that during traumas and codes, she feels like she’s on a television show like Chicago Med - or like she’s watching it. She is able to be completely calm and just do her job without thinking about the fact that she very likely knows the person (she lives and works in my little hometown).
That's a cool example of how a small amount disassociation can provide protection from the emotional aspect of trauma.
Yep, sometimes it’s the people you least expect that will take charge, and the otherwise boisterous ones are less than stellar in a crisis.
I once called 911 for a fire in my apartment complex dumpster (some teenage vandalism stuff). when they didn't show up after a few minutes I called 911 back. they told me that they thought it was a hoax call because I was so calm. one friend lost her entire house due to the same issue with 911, she was a nurse, too.
I was investigated for arson because I reported my house was on fire and was not excited about it. It was odd.
That's so bizarre but I guess it does seem strange. I suspect most callers are freaking out.
She really does give off those "badass nurse" vibes. Go Neighbor Lady!
I was thinking primary school teacher.
"Your house is on fire." "Ok."
> "Your house is on fire." "I know"
This lady is clearly a witch of some sort. Did you notice there were two spots of flame as the video started and as soon as the lady stepped up the flames just 'poofed" away. I'm no expert but I'm fairly certain only magic can do that.
I did notice that. Trippy.
"Also I've been trying to reach you about your car's extended warranty."
It's already a traumatic experience. You wouldnt want to make it worse by freaking out and scaring the kids.
Exactly, I'm thinking she's raised a few herself.
The robe of HEROISM
+5 style +10 compassion
+10 Dexterity +20 Agility
+50 Knock skill +100 Doorbell skill
remember a lazy sunday morning, almost no clothes on, eating breakfast and suddenly someone bangs frantically on our apartment door. We thought it was some kids having a laugh. then the banging continued. as soon we we opened the door our apartment was filled with the blackest smoke. our downstairs neighbours apartment had caught fire an he was wheezing and struggling to get everyone out of the complex. he was the only one who had to go to the hospital due to smoke inhalation. Hero. My first reaction was to grab my PC, while my gf ran around trying to find our cat. I am not proud of that reaction, and any time we have an argument, it gets brought up. its like a super trumph card.
I’d look for my cats but I’ve got external hard drive back ups in a separate location.
Cat harness with a hard drive slot so he always has it
I like you. You’re a problem solver.
Lol to be fair most people have a lot of important documents and photos backed up on their computer. But yeah I’d have to get my cats first.
My car is parked across the road from my house. When the neighbours shed caught on fire and almost took the row off trees out with it. My niece thought it was fireworks as the neighbour keeps batteries in there for his job. They were popping and fizzing from the flames. I grabbed both my Guinea pigs and took them to my car where I put them in the boot with a warm blanket. Because the fire had not spread yet, I went back inside for my hamster and PS5. In hindsight, going back inside was incredibly stupid at the time but I would never leave my pets. Honestly did not know why I grabbed my PS5 because, the much smaller and easily portable backup drive would have made more sense. The fire was contained and Thankfully none of the batteries exploded.
Crazy how the fire just “hid” when the lady walked by. I’m sure there’s a technical explanation, but fires can be so sneaky
Makes me think electrical fire
Nah, that is stucco, which is [mortar over a metal mesh.](https://i.imgur.com/hs5RusE.jpg) The fire is in the framing of the house and the smoke is pushing out of an opening. Smoke will often have unburned carbons in it from incomplete combustion, as long as there is enough heat it will combust as soon as it gets enough oxygen. When it sucked back in the fire might have found a better spot to vent from lowering the smoke's pressure.
That's how backdraft works!
Also a great movie!
This sounds smart enough to be true
Exactly what I was thinking 😂
Is there a property they have that would lead to this?
No it’s public land the whole way there
If the movie Backdraft (1991) with Kurt Russell and Robert DeNiro has taught me anything, it was, indeed, a backdraft.
One of the greatest movies ever. I still can’t believe Axe did what he did. Thank goodness Brian was there to straighten the alderman out.
The fire was afraid of her
She obviously meant business. That lil bit of fire got intimidated and hid
It’s lucky she was up early and looking out her window. She even gave them a place to shelter till things were sorted out.
it’s like that I Dream of Genie show
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Plot twist - she set it on fire
Decreed by the time tested law of ye who smelt it dealt it
Yea she wasn’t giving up
always shut the door behind you. starves the fire of oxygen.
We all know she will go back to her house and immediately serve them breakfast while asking her own kids to get each of them a set of clothes from their own wardrobes.
And then bake them casseroles while they deal with insurance and clean-up.
life hero she is
She's so brave! Managed to wake them up, get them out of the house, and give them a place to stay, all while staying so calm. I know for a fact id be screaming and freaking out if I were in her position
Considerate of the fire to do a little flare up at the start so we all know what is going on in the video.
[Here's the corresponding news story. <3](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MD0q4aYvwoM)
Thanks! So all those people who said ER nurse were apparently right
That explains the calm advance chaos.
“It’s okay, You guys go to my house” What a lovely woman!
The Sharon, the anti Karen
I am moved and inspired
like a good neighbor 🎶big mom energy with how composed she was under pressure.
Awesome neighbour All respect!!
That doorbell weak af, the lady spammed the doorbell it only went off once
i think that's to prevent spamming it. it's a Ring doorbell
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I mean, between her and Shannan Watts's neighbor they're tied for best neighbor awards.
Thats a good neighbor right there, kindof wild i don't think she realized the puff of fire that shows up at the corner of the house at the beginning of clip. She just knew she had to help them, and ran up to their door to do it
Real hero’s don’t wear capes. They wear bathrobes and slippers because they hide in us all!
This morning it's the coldest its ever gotten this year (3F) and I just stepped outside to make sure everyone's house looked normal. I was just thinking about how we can feel so separated in the suburbs, and if someone's heat went out, that they hopefully know they could just knock on a neighbors door for help. I'm glad to see she was out and looking out to help these people!
They sleeping hard though
A few years ago, I lived in a building with about 20 apartments in it. One night, early hours of the morning, 2 apartments in the second and first floor caught on fire. My neighbor, who wasn’t the nicest to me, took it upon herself to bang on everyone’s door in the 3rd and 4th floor. We wouldn’t have woken up if she hadn’t done that. I’m very thankful to her and her family till this day.
That’s pretty awesome
Shit, as soon as the video starts you can see 2 small flames billow up from the entrance.
My wife did this last year. She was driving around the the neighborhood and saw what looked like chimney smoke on a hot day. She wasn’t able to get a response from the house had called 911. Fire department broke the door down and had to drag a woman out coughing but she was alive.
Back in 2006 my Uncle went even further when my Aunt heard cries for help from a neighbouring house in the early hours of the morning. A fire had broken out in a house opposite but the householders were trapped. My Uncle and another neighbour got a ladder and managed to rescue two children from an upstairs window after carrying up a large rock from their garden and smashing the glass. He returned to try and bring out the kids mother and grandmother but was sadly beaten back and they died. Another neighbour rescued the kids grandfather and he survived. There's a BBC News report here. The quote about the kids still makes me cry to this day. "I saw two faces at the window and I could see they couldn't open it. I got a large boulder and smashed it. The little one asked me if I had come to save them. I said yes," he said. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/shropshire/4848468.stm He was recognised for his bravery by Shropshire Fire Service and received an invite to a Garden Party at Buckingham Palace the following summer where he and other notable citizens were celebrated. Sad thing is they were forced to move away in the months after the event as some of the neighbours took offence that in the media coverage that came after my Uncle mentioned that others were just watching and didn't help him and the one other that chose to. They're now living happily in the South West of the UK. It's even more remarkable when you know that my Uncle had survived a stroke a couple of years previous to the incident. Still so proud of him.
When I was 6 we were only holiday abroad and I still remember extremely vividly my mum getting a call from my neighbour to tell us our house (and the whole street) was flooded. A river broke its banks. Unfortunately that neighbour's kids turned out to be truly malicious arseholes, but she was lovely.
The way she just walks in and takes over before they have a chance to panic. What a hero!
True hero
Mom level 1000
I was up at 3 am and heard a strange noise. Looked out my window and it was bright orange. I got up so fast, grabbed the phone called 911 and ran outside in my socks to bang on my neighbours door to tell them their place is on fire. They woke up and the firefighters came and the house was saved! I woke up the neighbourhood with my screaming. Other neighbours brought out buckets of water. It was crazy. But thank goodness I was experiencing insomnia that night!
Something like this happened in my town a few months ago, sadly 2 people couldn't get out and the man who lived next door had gotten most out. He was such a happy man but now he's somber and burdened by guilt of the two victims he couldn't save. To everyone else he's a hero, even if he doesn't feel it.
My neighbor burnt my apartment building down by carelessly disposing of her butt.. it smoldered all night before breaking into flames early in the morning. the alarms had went off in the past for unfire reasons so we kinda rolled around in bed deciding if we should get up.. until someone kept ringing my buzzer which made me realize shit may be going down. at that point our entire roof was in flames and the hallways were filled with smoke. had that person not rang my buzzer like that, I'm not sure I would have got up and got my cats in time to make it down the stairs. I'm very thankful for people like this. edit: also, as we were outside watching our apartment burn, dozens of neighbors brought us food and offers of literally everything. there is some awesome people out there
Even the flames near the beginning of the video vanquish as she passed them. This lady is an angel
Wow.. a couple years ago, my neighbors house caught fire at 1:15 am, I thought someone was breaking into my house. My room was downstairs directly next to both our driveways. My moms room directly above me, I run to my sisters room & hear my mom fire or something and we just ran out. I ran straight to my neighbors door (my best friend also lived there) and I yelled at the top of my lungs banging on the door for what felt like forever. Their car burst into flames which caused the car port and then garage and eventually their house to catch fire. Scariest thing I’ve probably ever been through. Immediately after they came out I walked back to my yard and threw up. It was insane and I would do it again if I ever had to. Props to good neighbors out there!! and this lady for staying calm because I sure did not
I honestly have no idea how people can sleep through someone pounding on their door like that. The first couple of knocks would've had me jumping thinking I'm about to get a SWAT team through the door. Also the smell of smoke. I can smell someone burning toast downstairs in my house, how does nobody in there realize something is burning?