This is a first for me!

I've had a few sim fires that got out of control to where my sims couldn't put it out, so I got everyone out as quickly as possible. They lost a lot of stuff, but that's all easily replaceable.

When I worked in Assisted Living, we did fire drills probably once a month where we had to get residents outside. Many of them didn't want to budge until they had a shower, got dressed, had their hair done, etc. I had to be firm and let them know that if this was a real fire, they would have burned up by now and that the point is to get out as quickly and safely as possible. Some of them tried to argue with me that it was indecent to be outside in their pajamas and I pointed out that their lives are more important than modesty.

"LunBeauty;c-16899135" wrote:
and I pointed out that their lives are more important than modesty.

This is a fact that more people need to take to heart and internalize. When the building is on fire you Do Not Have Time to do any in depth preparations before leaving. Heck, you may not have time to pull on a pair of pants. You get out, and you get out NOW. Anything else doesn't matter.

"Faerie197;c-16899143" wrote:

"LunBeauty;c-16899135" wrote:
and I pointed out that their lives are more important than modesty.

This is a fact that more people need to take to heart and internalize. When the building is on fire you Do Not Have Time to do any in depth preparations before leaving. Heck, you may not have time to pull on a pair of pants. You get out, and you get out NOW. Anything else doesn't matter.

Exactly! Material things can be replaced easily, your life, however, cannot. You only get one of those. When I lost my house in a fire a few years ago, I lost so much. Clothes, nearly all of my books, games, etc. But I was able to buy all those back. Sometimes it doesn't help to be fussy when your life is in danger.

I have never had a sim die in a fire. I used to get the fireproof homestead LTR as soon as possible, to prevent fires. But once I realized my sims were not likely to burn up in a fire, since I can make them put it out, I don't get it anymore. It makes things interesting now and then.

"Springfairy556;c-16899033" wrote:
It reminds me of the time when my dining table randomly combusted(I'm serious, my sims were eating a meal that sends the steam out of their ears and I guess the steam was so hot, it set the table on fire.XD)

I've had sims start fires with the flames coming out of their mouth after eating food with ghost chilis, but not often.

"Faerie197;c-16898669" wrote:
Eh, it happens more often if your sim doesn't have the right traits and has low skill. Science skill also seems to lower the chance to set yourself on fire.

My sim has the eccentric trait, which is specific to inventing, and was at level 7 in inventing. She also has level 10 in science. So it was unexpected for more reasons than just never having seen it before. But her husband burned food in the pizza oven, with level 7 or 8 in cooking skill, and I've never seen a sim burn food at that high of a skill level. He has the lucky trait too, which doesn't seem to do him much good sometimes.

My daughter and her first husband had a house fire in the middle of the night, years ago. Thankfully, her husband was restless that night and couldn't sleep. When they heard glass shattering from the heat, they went to check it out. They were able to get their dog and cats out. They lost a lot of irreplaceable keepsakes though, because the room where the fire started was where those things were stored. It was arson. They were very sure it was started by the 12-year-old hoodlum next door, who my son-in-law had yelled at for vandalizing their property (again) that very day, but the police wouldn't take them seriously. When you live in a not so good part of town and don't have a lot of money, they don't really care about you, at least not in the town where they lived.

I've had a lot of combustive incidents in my Sims games, whether it's been the invention table setting one of my sims on fire, or chilis setting the whole kitchen on fire or meteors setting the whole property on fire. Lots of fun.

At one point in our (@Featherbelle's and mine) life, we were living out of a motel (it was all we could afford at the time). Some other tenant in the building went to sleep with the oven going. Next thing you know...their suite was ablaze. All of us were able to get out, thank goodness, but the potential was there for all of us to go up in flames.
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Wow, so many fire stories. I once started a fire on my oven and in the microwave, I smashed them out with a pan! I looked like a crazy mad woman but it worked. These were small fires and I was beside when they started, but I'm glad of my reflexes. I'm so afraid of a real fire!