What we have been up to

It has been a busy month around here.  As you can tell by the photos below we had a fire in one of the units.

The good thing is everyone got out and there were no injuries sustained in the fire.  This fire happened at about 130 am on Dec 27th 2010.  The fire department credits the smoke detector for saving the tenants life. 

She smelled smoke, heard the fire detector and got out of the unit.  The fire was contained to the kitchen area of just the one unit but did considerable damage to the apartment.  We became aware of the fire when the emergency call box alerted us that there was some sort of issue going on.  When I enabled the intercom feature of the emergency call system all I could hear was the smoke alarm screaming. At that same instant the tenant was beating on our door.  

Thankfully the fire department is just down the block and their response time to here is less than 2 minutes. I credit that for the limited amount of damage to the unit and the building.  The apartment is located in the same building that our apartment is in.  So if the fire had gotten out of control it is possible that we could have even lost our home.   Not a very comforting thought!   

It has taken the contractors a month to get the apartment restored to rent-able condition. And as far as I am concerned they did a wonderful job.  

  

 The fire originated with the microwave, shown above

 These cabinets were on the opposite side of the kitchen, I was surprised to see how the fire had already charred the cabinet doors.

The heat was so intense that it melted the smoke detector off the ceiling and that glob you see on the wall (under the light) is what is left of the door bell. 

 These two pictures are of the remodeled apartment.  

Now that the rehab is complete we can get back to the normal operations around here.