My house is a Bed and Breakfast. No, not an AirBnB - it's a real, old fashioned B&B with breakfast and daily maid service.
As such we have to be licensed by the City and inspected each year. Recently, a local Fire Department official stopped by (unannounced, of course) for a fire safety inspection. No problem, we make sure to keep everything up to snuff. I'm going through the house with him, letting him test all the smoke alarms and check inspection date tags on all the fire extinguishers which we have every place we're required to have them.
Everything is going really smoothly - so much so that he thanked me for making this an easy inspection for him.
Did I mention I have a basement? He was surprised by that as we don't have many basements here in Central Texas, but I actually have a full basement. There's a smoke alarm and fire extinguisher there as well so we start heading down the stairs.
The friendly fireman jokingly says, "Having a basement is fine, so long as you're not building bombs or explosive missiles down here."
This is the first thing he saw . . .
As such we have to be licensed by the City and inspected each year. Recently, a local Fire Department official stopped by (unannounced, of course) for a fire safety inspection. No problem, we make sure to keep everything up to snuff. I'm going through the house with him, letting him test all the smoke alarms and check inspection date tags on all the fire extinguishers which we have every place we're required to have them.
Everything is going really smoothly - so much so that he thanked me for making this an easy inspection for him.
Did I mention I have a basement? He was surprised by that as we don't have many basements here in Central Texas, but I actually have a full basement. There's a smoke alarm and fire extinguisher there as well so we start heading down the stairs.
The friendly fireman jokingly says, "Having a basement is fine, so long as you're not building bombs or explosive missiles down here."
This is the first thing he saw . . .