Dakota moves out

There have been two times in my life when firetrucks and police cars have come to my house in the middle of the night. There has been one time in my life when we actually needed a fire truck. None of these times are the same.

#1
Dad was out of town, so it was Jen, Mom and I at home and Jen and I were either in late middle school or high school. Mom was in my room before I went to bed and we felt that the floor was really hot. Of course this meant that our floors and walls were about to burst into flames, so we called the fire department. Turns out the kitchen light below my bedroom can get really warm. Warm enough to feel on the floor above it.

#2
Dad was working in the crawl space soddering some pipes together. This crawl space had a lot of cobwebs. The torch caught a web on fire and it went shooting across the crawl space. Mom, Jen and I were just getting home and heard him yelling that he needed water because he was trapped in the small space and I don't think he could get to the exit. If he could, he couldn't get there very fast, so he was yelling. The three of us thought he was yelling to turn off the water thinking he had started a flood so instead of bringing buckets of nice water to him, we turned off the main water supply to the house while he sat in a burning dark space filled with two by fours under our house. Through a lot of yelling we figured out what was going on and was able to extinguish the fire before it extinguished us. No fire department was called.

#3
Chris is out of town. Jen, Austin and I are home and asleep. Our carbon monoxide detector starts screaming at us. All three of us, plus four big dogs are staring at this thing and trying to make it shut off. We do. Then it goes off. Then we change batteries. Then it goes off. We look at each other not wanting to do what we know we have to if we want to sleep soundly. I make the call. One police car, one fire engine, one water truck and six people later we determine that our detector was making faulty readings.

After the excitement of the evening, Celtic and Siris went to bed with Jenni, I put Austin down to sleep and head for my room. Jackson and Dakota were still standing in the hallway and as if they were having a conversation they turn on cue and Jackson came in with me and Dakota went to sleep with Austin.