If your house was on fire, what would you grab?

[begin_within]

I would grab and take my Mom, my cat, my important documents, my computer disks, my photo albums, and water. I would leave behind everything else.

[In_The_Wind]

1. The parrots and my golden retriever.

Oh and my housemates.

[Truebrit71sbruv]

My children and my partner

But I'd just need four arms to do so...

[xmas74]

2. the kid first.

then the pets.

[anarch]

3. my socks

now, any questions about what I would drop?

[seemunkee]

4. Photos

Assuming I don't have to grab the wife or daughter I would go for the family photos. I have the family archives that cover 5 generations

[sakabatou]

5. The place that I live now or back home?

[begin_within]

26. The place you live now.

[sakabatou]

28. My laptop, my iPod (w/ accesories)

my back-up discs, wallet and cellphone.

[Left Is Write]

6. My kids.

[ghostsofgiants]

7. Computer, bass guitar, sketchbook.

[kwassa]

8. We grabbed the cats .... we couldn't hold onto anything else.

Pouring rain outside, too. Nothing like trying to keep a wet cat calm in a rainstorm.

Our house was a few feet from a house that was on fire. Ours never burned, fortunately.

[Wcross]

30. That must have been "fun".

How many pints of blood did you lose? There ain't nothing like a nervous cat that wants to get out of your grasp!

[BarenakedLady]

9. Kids

Leave the door open for the pets.

[TheBaldyMan]

10. I'd pick up my arse and run !

[CaliforniaPeggy]

11. My camera, my computer, some very important personal papers.

I hope I never have to face such a choice.......

I have many things that are waaay too important to leave behind......:scared: :cry:

[bikebloke]

12. I have a grab bag.

With personal documents, passport etc.

[bicentennial_baby]

13. Sniffa, Mrs Sniffa, Mrs Sniffa's meds...

and as many of her paintings as we could carry....probably the camera too. :P

[HarukaTheTrophyWife]

14. My pets. Everything else can be replaced.

[Burma Jones]

15. Wife and Kids

then, if I had time, the external hard drive on my desktop and my trumpets

[Blue Diadem]

16. When we had our little incident..we rushed daughter/granddaughter

outside along with the dog. I ran upstairs to get the cat and on the way out grabbed the hose mounted by the porch and drug it inside for DH. He & my adult son were already cutting out the wall where sparks from their working had flew and created smoldering. Living in a home over 100 yrs old, we knew how quickly it could ignite.

Happily, it was all put out by the time the entire fire/emt/police arrived. They used thermal imaging to make sure everything was safe.

I have to say though..fires can develop quickly and spread rapidly..so act quickly if you ever have one. First priority is to get everyone out. There is very little time in a real fire to grab documents etc. We keep ours in a fire proof safe..they don't cost very much..you can get them under $100.

edited to add: I forgot to mention that the poor cat is so afraid of outdoors that he grabbed on the screen door for dear life. I had to peel off each paw to get outside.

[Oeditpus Rex]

17. 1. Xanax

2. Cigs

3. My ass and get it the fuck outa there.

[Arugula Latte]

18. Kids, husband, cats, bunny.

The goldfish are on their own...Sorry, guys.

[Blue Diadem]

20. OMG..I never once thought of the fish

until you mentioned goldfish. I'm just a horrible fish mom/grandmom.

[KFC]

19. My dick

My first response to any emergency

[ThomWV]

21. Get the dogs out ....

[kskiska]

22. The frozen embryos

To heck with the kids.

[ganeshji]

23. cats and the stash, possibly my husband

[SoCalDem]

24. It would take all I had in me to get all my kitties

the rest would have to burn up..

[otherlander]

25. A hose.

[begin_within]

27. Good answer

[av8rdave]

29. family goes without saying. If they're safe, then I save the photos

Everything else can be replaced.

[YellowRubberDuckie]

31. Skip and my computer.

Oh and my purse.
On edit: I have a laptop.
Duckie

[Wcross]

32. My cats and dogs.

I figure it would be nice to have all new stuff anyways, I kind of like my old animals though.

[ronnykmarshall]

33. The cats

the rest can burn.

[Bzzzz]

34. My Husband, Min Pins...

pictures, computers, purse, whatever else I could...

[billyskank]

35. Nothing, I guess

There is nothing in here that is irreplaceable.

Either that or I was just sit here on DU telling you all about it. :)

[mduffy31]

36. My balls

and head for the walls

[Dem_4_Life]

37. my pets, my cell phone, purse and pictures...

everything else can be replaced.