What one item would you take?

I came close to being killed in an early morning house fire, I made sure the children were out and a safe distance from the house, I them went back in a grabed what bedding I could until the ceiling fell in and hit me on the side of the head it stunned me briefly. My Husband lost a 23 year old brother in a house fire due to fumes from a burning bean bag
 

Kadee46 said:
I came close to being killed in an early morning house fire, I made sure the children were out and a safe distance from the house, I them went back in a grabed what bedding I could until the ceiling fell in and hit me on the side of the head it stunned me briefly. My Husband lost a 23 year old brother in a house fire due to fumes from a burning bean bag
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Oh Kadee I'm sorry you lost a close family member in a house fire, and it so easily could have been you in the other one by returning for the bedding. You were lucky not to have been knocked unconscious, and you'd have never made it out.
 

kcvet said:
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Well, that was alarming! Of course, I figure if it comes to such catastrophe, I'm dead. I only hope my offspring can survive but I doubt it. I seriously doubt it. Maybe if grandson is grown before it happens. He is already into all the survivalist stuff. Blame Minecraft.
 
hollydolly said:
You have a matter of minutes to flee your home or lose your life... you will never return again..living your life in exile somewhere a long way away from everything and everyone you know

Apart from possibly your children or partner, you have the chance just to grab one thing and nothing more to remind you of home..


What would you take?...remember, you have only minutes to make a decision, you can never return


Have a read here of a few sad examples that might make make you think..

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-30655404
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i really don't have anything that is important enough to worry about grabbing to "remind" me of home. i'd be more concerned with locating money, car keys & birth certificate.
 
Honestly? I think I would be so depressed by the situation, that I would stay where I was and suffer the consequences. Living a life in exile, away from my family and everything I know, would be no life for me anyway.
 
In 2018, an ambulance team hauled me to the hospital, in the middle of the night.. It wasn't until 2019- a year later, that I got back into my home. And what was the things I needed most, during that time? My driver's license, credit cards, and a computer. While this thread mentions "one item", and I have three things; it's really the one need to have access to funds, and for that you need your identity. Pictures of loved ones, childhood teddy bears, etc, are useless. They are possessions you will most probably loose, and they aren't. necessary to survive, or keep you alive, no matter how cherished. One other item(?), I would take is a list of passwords & user names. It doesn't matter what the emergency is, you will need cash at some point. I was in an intensive care unity, bedridden on IVs. But I had to have cash to get my hair cut.
 
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I was all prepared for this situation. I placed my personal documents, favourite jewelry and money in a little bag and put it in my wardrobe. One day, the house next-door caught fire and the firemen banged on my door and told me to get out. I ran upstairs, grabbed my little bag, picked up my cat and left.
 
hollydolly said:
You have a matter of minutes to flee your home or lose your life... you will never return again..living your life in exile somewhere a long way away from everything and everyone you know

Apart from possibly your children or partner, you have the chance just to grab one thing and nothing more to remind you of home..


What would you take?...remember, you have only minutes to make a decision, you can never return
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If I was thinking right, it'd be the small fire safe

If I couldn't get to that, it'd be my laptop

Hate to leave my 357 and other guns.....but those come and go
 
I would just open the sideboard drawer and skidaddle with my magic wand, then find another location, give Wendy the wand a wave, and in a flash I'd have everything I had before, minus the miserable bugger across the road. :)
 
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Just asked my o/h...he said his phone. On that he has his banking, his computer and his contact list....

I don't do phone banking, so I would grab my computer.... whatever was easiest...desktop, ipad, laptop... one of them..
 
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I’ve had to make this decision once and there’s no logic. I had enough time for clothes & glasses. Picked up my phone from my beside table, turned around in a circle once and said “nothing matters”. I did pick my wedding ring as I walked past it.

An aside, when you see tv video of all the folks who ran from their homes or apartments in the middle of the night, you never think that they didn’t have a chance to go to the washroom. Fortunately there was a safe house nearby that I finally thought to go to. After a couple of hours I really could have used a coffee but had no access to my car. Someone arrived with bottle of water. We were fortunate that it was a hot summer night and it’s light at 4:30. I can’t imagine what it would be like in the middle of a cold winter night.
 
In that type of emergency? Me Myself and I. Get out and get going.
When we lived on a small island with my dad there was a tsunami headed our way. Luckily because he was in charge of the planes coming and going we were assigned to head for the air traffic control tower. Well, they came for us around Zero Dark Thirty to rush us to safety and my mom ran out of the house in her underpants. So, always remember to grab your panties boys and girls.:rolleyes:
 
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I'm glad I read this thread, made me realize tornado season is starting and I don't have my tornado prep done. I've gotten out the cat carrier now and set it in position to be filled near the door. It will stay that way thru tornado season. I haven't yet got the emergency bag of water ready.
I never thought of whether I would need my purse with me in the tornado shelter, I suppose it would be convenient to have it.
 
I was in that situation once, in my early 20's .. a kitchen fire had started that I knew I couldn't control. Grabbed my handbag that held my bank book, wallet with I.D., cash and birth certificate .. and my portable t.v. (that was the most valuable thing I owned back then). I knocked on doors to let others know there was a fire, then got out of the building. Phoned fire department from the billiard downstairs and we all went outside.
 

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