PixieStixxxx
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I came home last night around 11 pm and opened my front door. I was instantly hit with smoke and realized my whole townhouse was full of it. The downstairs wasn't too bad, and I thought maybe my boyfriend or our roommate left the stove on. So I opened the windows in the first level and checked all the appliances, and they were all off. I have two rabbits downstairs - Labrador and Precious along with my two guinea pigs and rat. They were fine as it was a light smoke.
Then I went to the hallway with the staircase that leads to the second floor and it was thick, pearl white smoke and I realized there was a fire up there. I FREAKED out because I have six rabbits up there - Spank, Sylvia, Simba, Savannah, Rush, and Smudge. The smoke was so thick I couldn't see my own hand in front of my face. It burned my eyes and I couldn't breathe. I have asthma so holding my breathe is a impossible game. But I wasn't going to give them up without a fight. So I ran up to my room and I instantly found Spank. I grabbed him, ran downstairs and stuffed him in a duffle bag. Then I took another deep breathe and ran back up - I found Sylvia but she ran away and I spotted Smudge, so I grabbed him and got to my door. I couldn't open it and Smudge scratched my chest and got away. I turned around and started searching and this time I found Savannah and Rush so I grabbed him, opened my door with my foot and raced down the stairs and stuffed them into a kennel. I ran back up (my eyes were burning and the back of my throat was closing). I found Sylvia and Smudge cowering by a wall, and I grabbed Sylvia, ran downstairs and stuffed her into another duffle bag. I ran back up, grabbed Smudge and ran downstairs and stuffed him into another kennel. By the time I got back up for Simba, the smoke was even thicker and I couldn't see a thing. I was on my hands and knees crying out for Simba, and I couldn't find him. I started grabbed whatever I could feel, throwing out and frantically feeling around for him. Then I just started digging somewhere... something told me that Simba had burried himself in my laundry basket and I just kept digging and throwing my clothes. And then I felt his fuzzy butt, so I grabbed him hard and clung him to myself and ran downstairs and stuffed him with Sylvia.
I went back up to make sure I didn't forgot anyone, nor imagined I grabbed one of them. I opened my roommates room just because and this inferno of heat blasted me in the face and there was a fire in there. I luckily came home just before it spead to my room where most of my bunnies where. I came back up coughing and hacking up this black stuff and I dialed 911. Meanwhile I packed up Labrador, Precious, my Guinea pigs and my rat and carried them all outside. My neighbours came out to help me carry them and I was hysterically crying by this time. I called my roommate and my boyfriend and I was throwing every cuss word at my roommate because I almost lost my bunnies.
I had to go to the hospital, but the entire time I was begging the paramedics and the nurses to let me call around and find a place to my pets for the night. They couldn't believed I made countless trips and nearly had carbon monoxide poisoning because I refused to leave any of my pets behind.
I came back to my place about two hours ago and my roommates room is destoryed.. all of his stuff was outside. Everything burned and melted. The hallway walls are black, my white carpet is black..
All of pets are completely fine.. except Spank is still scared :censored2:.. literally. He hasn't pooped since, but he's soaked in his urine.. and he won't leave the duffel bag. They are still at my friends place.. and I'm here cleaning my charcoaled and destoryed townhouse.
But they're all safe and that's what I risked my life for!
Then I went to the hallway with the staircase that leads to the second floor and it was thick, pearl white smoke and I realized there was a fire up there. I FREAKED out because I have six rabbits up there - Spank, Sylvia, Simba, Savannah, Rush, and Smudge. The smoke was so thick I couldn't see my own hand in front of my face. It burned my eyes and I couldn't breathe. I have asthma so holding my breathe is a impossible game. But I wasn't going to give them up without a fight. So I ran up to my room and I instantly found Spank. I grabbed him, ran downstairs and stuffed him in a duffle bag. Then I took another deep breathe and ran back up - I found Sylvia but she ran away and I spotted Smudge, so I grabbed him and got to my door. I couldn't open it and Smudge scratched my chest and got away. I turned around and started searching and this time I found Savannah and Rush so I grabbed him, opened my door with my foot and raced down the stairs and stuffed them into a kennel. I ran back up (my eyes were burning and the back of my throat was closing). I found Sylvia and Smudge cowering by a wall, and I grabbed Sylvia, ran downstairs and stuffed her into another duffle bag. I ran back up, grabbed Smudge and ran downstairs and stuffed him into another kennel. By the time I got back up for Simba, the smoke was even thicker and I couldn't see a thing. I was on my hands and knees crying out for Simba, and I couldn't find him. I started grabbed whatever I could feel, throwing out and frantically feeling around for him. Then I just started digging somewhere... something told me that Simba had burried himself in my laundry basket and I just kept digging and throwing my clothes. And then I felt his fuzzy butt, so I grabbed him hard and clung him to myself and ran downstairs and stuffed him with Sylvia.
I went back up to make sure I didn't forgot anyone, nor imagined I grabbed one of them. I opened my roommates room just because and this inferno of heat blasted me in the face and there was a fire in there. I luckily came home just before it spead to my room where most of my bunnies where. I came back up coughing and hacking up this black stuff and I dialed 911. Meanwhile I packed up Labrador, Precious, my Guinea pigs and my rat and carried them all outside. My neighbours came out to help me carry them and I was hysterically crying by this time. I called my roommate and my boyfriend and I was throwing every cuss word at my roommate because I almost lost my bunnies.
I had to go to the hospital, but the entire time I was begging the paramedics and the nurses to let me call around and find a place to my pets for the night. They couldn't believed I made countless trips and nearly had carbon monoxide poisoning because I refused to leave any of my pets behind.
I came back to my place about two hours ago and my roommates room is destoryed.. all of his stuff was outside. Everything burned and melted. The hallway walls are black, my white carpet is black..
All of pets are completely fine.. except Spank is still scared :censored2:.. literally. He hasn't pooped since, but he's soaked in his urine.. and he won't leave the duffel bag. They are still at my friends place.. and I'm here cleaning my charcoaled and destoryed townhouse.
But they're all safe and that's what I risked my life for!
