Seriously Fires are RIDICULOUS!!!

Have you put in the Fire prevention system utility panel? It's a sprinkler system to be found in the kitchen items with the Alertz smoker alarm. You need to put it on each floor level to support that level. (One of my child sims once begged the Grim Reaper for his father's life after a barbecue fire and The GR got out his own fire extinguisher to put it out). I now put one on the wall outside too but it does need a ceiling.

I had this the other day. I was playing on my kid's game (he was directing--I was controlling) when the fire breaks out, and all the Sims will do is wave their arms, confused.

BUT...

One of them accidentally stepped into the fire and it caught. When she extinguished herself, she extinguished the fire around her. So I put it out by walking her around all the flaming spots, letting it catch, and having her put herself out over and over.

It was...disturbing.

Thats weird I never have fire alarms, or that fire planel and my dryer has only caught fire once since I've been playing sims 4 and the one time the house caught fire a sprinkler put out the dryer without having a panel or alarm, I did have a thermostat tho.

My Sims have started a fire nearly every time I start a brand new family. This has been true across all Sims games... "Welcome to the neighborhood! Here's some fruitcake! Good luck surviving that inevitable fire that will start soon!" :|

My advice, buy a microwave to start off and leave ovens until they get some cooking ability!

Believe the routing issue when trying to extinguish is a bug caused by the last update - there is a bug report for it:
https://answers.ea.com/t5/Bug-Reports/NEEDS-INPUT-OR-Routing-problems-when-extinguishing-fire-near/m-p/7831929#M89055

Sprinkler systems (that came in the base game - just place one outside the backdoor of the house, put a smoke detector in each room where there is a fire burning appliance (science table - stoves - fireplace etc) puts out fires inside instantly - I fail to see why you guys do not use them. Heck I don't even get fire damage to appliances or anything. But the ceiling sprinkler system immediately goes off over fires through out the house and your sims get notified there is a fire by the smoke alarm to run outside or if there are babies grab them and run outside. Now if you did not install the sprinkler system and smoke detectors then you'll have a problem - but with them fires are put out as soon as they start.

It protects every floor of the inside of the sims house and do it much faster than when we used to have fire departments. I love them.


ETA - the only place it does not help of course is outside the house - Sims have to put out fires outside on their own - but I keep cans of the fire sprays in my sims inventory from JA before they have an outdoor event and those cans generally put barbeques and campfires out quickly with out sims getting burned.

I will try the sprinkler system if my Sims can afford it.

While this family pictured was patched in that home under the freerealestate cheat, I don't usually play with cheats. But it's like @katrinasforest said... Everytime a new family is started this happens and usually that family doesn't have the funds for the sprinkler system when starting out.

@AprilDawn thank you for letting me know bcuz I was about to report it.

@Simburian it was coming from the fire place. I wasn't using the thermostat bcuz it can cost bills to be high and my family here only had starter funds.

@Techbilt that's awesome you haven't had any issues. Though I do believe this is an ongoing bug in the game when it comes to fires. And like all bugs some it affects others it doesn't. You're lucky it hasn't happened bcuz it can be so annoying to the point where you don't even want to play.

@leetamme It is advisable not to put anything on the block immediately by a fireplace and that includes putting carpets right before it and things on the walls ajacent as that can start a fire. It's been that way since 2001!

@Simburian you know I've been playing the Sims since 2000 and I didn't realize that about carpets, though usually when I build with fireplaces I put a hard type floor under and around it. I'll check to see if I've done that here. Thank you for the advice.