Ems Little Stories Episode 2

Dan and Angie came to the Church House last night and they finished shoveling the coal out of the coal bins.

After church services today, I came home and decided to scrub the utility room, again.

As a little background on this utility room that is occupying my time right now, the propane furnace is also in this room. On the opposite side is a small white box that detects carbon monoxide, or whatever is a dangerous by product of propane. Anyway, it has gone off several times in the past and makes a loud noise similar to a fire alarm. It has caused me to wonder what's going on in that room, but I have checked with the propane company and they do not have any answer and do not seem overly concerned; so, I just push the reset button and ,so far ,we have been okay and no explosions! However, I have been careful to avoid getting any water on the box not knowing what might happen.

So back to my cleaning regime. I began to pour Tide and water on the floor and scrub; then I thought I should go upstairs and check on our Golden Retriever, Maggie, who has an injured hip. On the way up, I took a large pyrex plate and a stainless steel lid that belonged to Angie and Dan. I placed it at the top of the steps on top a box of "give away" clothing to remind me to give it to them. Then I went to check on Maggie.

After making sure Maggie was okay, I returned to the utility room downstairs and began to scrub. Happy with my progress of removing the coal dust on the concrete floor, I decided to throw more water up in the air onto the back concrete wall. As soon as I threw the water, the carbon monoxide alarm with off!

The water had not touched the box! I tried to push the reset button but it kept ringing! I knew something wasn't right so I took off running as fast as I could. I ran up the stairs not knowing what I was going to do or what was going to happen! Just as I hit the last step at the top of the stairs "Boom!! I heard metal banging and as I got to the the top I hollered "Maggie !!! Let's get out of here!

She limped out quickly with me and then we just were waiting outside for the whole Church House to blow up!

We waited. Everything seemed quiet in the building. Nothing more happened. So, I decided to peek around the corner and look downstairs to see what had blown out into the stairwell!

Cautiously, I looked down the stairwell looking for smoke and twisted parts of the furnace and other debris.

There half way down the stairs was the stainless steel lid and a broken pyrex dish!

I picked up the lid and the broken pieces. Then went downstairs and all was the same except the carbon monoxide buzzer was still going. I opened all windows and went in to the utility room ( I must say a little more confident than just a few moments before) and pushed the button the . The buzzing stopped.

All is safe and secured at the Church House. We have a lovely room downstairs 30 feet from the utility room.

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Love,
Em