Copper Country Living

This past week our chimney caught fire. The fire department had to be summoned to put it out. I was standing in our driveway, wearing my boots without socks, our toddler without mittens, the baby with her snow bunting I managed to grab as we hurried out the door. For the less than five minutes it took the volunteer fire department to arrive, I stood helpless watching the metal chimney glowing bright orange atop the house... fearing the whole time it was about to spread to the roof and I'd watch everything I own in the world go up in flames. I wouldn't even own socks. Our house didn't burn to the ground. It didn't suffer any damage at all. We got really lucky. The firemen showed up after those five minutes, put out the chimney fire, vented the smoke out of my house, and inspected the chimney enough to tell us it had suffered some damage (and to get a pro to come look at it). There was no water damage, no physical damage, no smoke damage. Just some dust to vacuum up- not