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Hero nanny badly burned saving boy
TodayShow.com ^ | March 26, 2010 | Mike Celizic

Posted on 04/05/2010 11:19:38 AM PDT by sinanju

Around 3 a.m. Tuesday, a broken ventilation fan in an upstairs bathroom had overheated and caught fire. Myatt, whose room was in the basement of the house, doused the small fire with water and called Hawes to report the problem. Both agreed that as the fire was out, there wasn’t any cause for concern.

But at 6 a.m. Myatt awoke to a crashing boom and wailing smoke alarms. The booming sound was that of the fan falling out of the ceiling and hitting the floor after catching fire again.

Myatt jumped out of bed and rushed upstairs in her bare feet.

“I just saw flames all down the hallway and the bathroom door was on fire, because I hadn’t shut the bathroom door before this big fire, so there was no way to avoid the flames,” Myatt told Curry. “But before I had even looked at the fire or anything, I was yelling for Aden. He said he was in his room underneath the covers.”

To get to him, Myatt had to run through the burning carpeting with nothing on her feet.

“I didn’t even think about me getting hurt or getting burned,” Myatt said. “I really didn’t even think that I was barefoot. I was just yelling for Aden and I ran and got him. All of it happened really quick.”

“To physically run through flames is heroics to the nth degree,” Shelbyville Fire Chief Willard Tucker told The Courier-Journal newspaper. “To make a choice to charge right through flames is kind of above what are normal heroics.”

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TOPICS: Miscellaneous; News/Current Events; US: Kentucky
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To: sinanju

“Well why doesn’t Obama deploy an army of household inspectors making mandatory annual checks of our bathroom fans?!!”

In July.


21 posted on 04/05/2010 12:48:50 PM PDT by stephenjohnbanker (Support our troops....and vote out the RINOS!)
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To: Tax-chick

Uh, that would be an Irish name, Tax chick. As for the noble one’s parents (that’s what Aden means, btw), I have no idea.

You being an interesting commentator here on FR, I have visted your home page, and have noted for a while your child named Anoreth, of whom you are justifiably proud. But it is an unusual name also, doncha think?


22 posted on 04/05/2010 12:51:56 PM PDT by dmz
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To: green pastures
I have heard of it before— quite a lot, actually. Major cause is dust build up in the fan. Causes the motor to overheat.

Me too. However I just always assumed it was due to age and running too often. I'll have to pull ours and look at it.

23 posted on 04/05/2010 12:54:14 PM PDT by VeniVidiVici (Alfred E. Neuman for President! Oh, wait a minute ...)
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To: sinanju

Any time there is some sort of electrical fire, no matter how small, call the fire department. They can come out and make sure the fire didn’t extend to some other area.

Thinking that the fire’s out will lead to this sort of disaster.


24 posted on 04/05/2010 12:57:53 PM PDT by MediaMole
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To: Tax-chick
Dear Tax Chick:

Aden (or Aiden) is Irish in origin. It means "fire."

Ironic, huh?

25 posted on 04/05/2010 12:58:59 PM PDT by TheWriterTX (-)
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To: dmz

That’s her FR name. Her real name is Josephine.

“Aden” is a city on the Red Sea.


26 posted on 04/05/2010 1:14:06 PM PDT by Tax-chick (Espiritu Santo, Espiritu Santo, renueva la faz de la tierra!)
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To: Tax-chick

I missed that about Anoreth. Aden is also an Irish name.


27 posted on 04/05/2010 1:20:48 PM PDT by dmz
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To: sinanju

The fan may have been wired to always come on when the bathroom light was on. Trying to douse it with water would be doubly unwise, because of the electricity and because the burning substance, the stuff in which the motor winding is potted, is more like an oil fire than a paper fire. Even so, lint and dust unreached by the water (imagine throwing water on a ceiling) may have continued to smolder.


28 posted on 04/05/2010 1:23:37 PM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (I am in America but not of America (per bible: am in the world but not of it))
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To: dmz

And Vlad’s real name is Daniel. The NC Forum named him “Vlad.”

I’ve seen “Aiden” and “Aidan,” but never “Aden” as a name. My apologies to all large and small Adens; it’s not an idiotic name just because it’s spelled differently from what I’m used to.


29 posted on 04/05/2010 1:33:14 PM PDT by Tax-chick (Espiritu Santo, Espiritu Santo, renueva la faz de la tierra!)
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To: sinanju

I am not an electrician but I have learned from professional electricians that if you have any electrical appliance that has power supplied to it at all times it is wise to install a switch that will cut all power to the appliance in an emergency.

Sometimes, as noted in previous posts above a small fire can start before the circuit breaker or fuse is blown.

If a fire does start, it can continue to burn even after the power is cut.


30 posted on 04/05/2010 2:58:12 PM PDT by tradergem (Frustrated and Pissed Off Beyond All Reason With Liberals!)
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To: Tax-chick

No apology needed here. I just googled it when you suggested it was an idiotic name.

I have worked in recruiting for a large organization (5000 people, 8 billion in revenue), and I can assure I’ve seen some doozies as far as names go.

Aden, (spelled in any of the ways), would not even cause an eye to bat.


31 posted on 04/06/2010 9:35:22 AM PDT by dmz
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To: dmz

I put in some time in “Civilian Personnel.” You see some crazy things! Foreign names are just foreign, but some don’t have that excuse ;-).


32 posted on 04/06/2010 2:40:42 PM PDT by Tax-chick (Espiritu Santo, Espiritu Santo, renueva la faz de la tierra!)
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To: K-oneTexas

The father talking about the debt he owes the nanny should be paying her medical bills, or paying a whole bunch of them or making arrangements to do so.


33 posted on 04/06/2010 2:48:58 PM PDT by Let's Roll (Stop paying ACORN to destroy America! Cut off their federal funding!)
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To: Let's Roll

I would definitely agree with that.


34 posted on 04/06/2010 3:49:56 PM PDT by K-oneTexas (I'm not a judge and there ain't enough of me to be a jury. (Zell Miller, A National Party No More))
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To: Tax-chick

While I no longer recruit, I still am in the same group, so we do have an informal list of the craziest names that come across the recruiter’s desks.


35 posted on 04/07/2010 6:51:45 AM PDT by dmz
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