If a fire was about to burn your house, what would you save?

ifkz

Well-known member
Joined
Oct 3, 2006
Messages
1,544
Reaction score
45
Location
Texas
If a fire was about to burn your house, what would you save?

Several large fires, one a few miles away from my house, lit up my area tonight. As I packed some of my collection into my car, it was hard deciding what should stay and what should go. My arcade tally would have been what was most easily accessible and what was the hardest stuff to fix. I have a couple of spare vector boards and some JAMMA boards that were about to be stuffed in the car. I also would have saved a project or two; namely the most difficult boards I've gotten almost all the way working: Zero Team and Alien Storm. Heck, the Alien Storm isn't even complete and needs chips from another game to work.

Thankfully we were not evacuated and everything was moved back inside. My car has a little bit of ash on it and it smells like a BBQ outside.

I didn't even bother thinking about moving cabs out to raid their PCBs out of harms way.

What would everyone else do?
 
I would save my dk cocktail and my 15,000 + comic book collection I have. If my wife wouldn't fit in car then she stays behind LOL.
 
Thankfully I didn't have to, but that was too close!
 
I gotta go with Chris here.. Wife, kids and the 2 cats if I can.

If I had more time, I'd grab important papers and photo albums before
grabing circuit boards.

I am redoing my home owners insurance.. found out Allstate was
raping me. So I shopped around. Went with Liberty Mutual and got a
25k rider on my policy for the arcade games for $25 a year.
I get a check for 25k in case of fire. I should be able to replace my
collection for that kinda cash.
 
All my restored games were photo documented with descriptions, values and included as a rider on my insurance policy so losing it all in a fire or some other disaster wouldn't have mattered to me at all.
 
would have sucked but I'm with Chris for the most part. I'd get compensated for them. I might try and save my tron though. It was a bitch to restore.
 
After wife and cat, then the fire safe (with marriage certificate, insurance papers, etc), the laptops and towers from the PC's (I can replace monitors, keyboards, etc), and if I have time, my Joust cocktail. Maybe the boards from my Tempest.

Speaking of the fires... The big one out southeast that has destroyed about 500 homes so far is far enough away that I'm not in any immediate danger, but one of our famous customers has a house out right in the middle of that area with about 10 videos and 8 pinballs.... :(
 
Assuming the family is safe, and whats in the fire safe is just that. Safe. I would gather my Magic collection, and my rarest Jamma PCBs(Haunted Castles, Splatterhouse, Varth, Salamander 2, Nebulasray, Night Slashers, Xexex, and probably a couple choice CPS-2 boards and MVS carts. But knowing me and what I would loose in the collection, I'm liable to break out the water hose, gas mask, the marsh mellows and weenies and just tough it out.
 
After the family, cat and computer, the Ms. Pac and anything else I have time to get. I have always felt that whatever happened, if I ran out of money and had to sell every thing I own, I would find a way to keep her. Just have to.
 
i have all my car titles etc in a container, is grab that, the kid, the wife, the cats,wedding album and my sons urn, fuck everything else. THats why i have insurance.
 
seriously, i'd have to say my wife, dogs and cats, priority one. if there was hypothetically time to go in and save anything, i'd try to get my vintage game magazine collection, my wedding album, a few transformers, and gamewise, i'd take multi williams, wizard of wor, and tempest, if i could only get those.
 
seriously, i'd have to say my wife, dogs and cats, priority one. if there was hypothetically time to go in and save anything, i'd try to get my vintage game magazine collection, my wedding album, a few transformers, and gamewise, i'd take multi williams, wizard of wor, and tempest, if i could only get those.

I would take your wizard of wor so you could save something else ;)
 
I don't have anything really valuable but I'd probably grab my external hard drive that has all our photos on it and a bunch of albums my wife put together in the pre-digital-camera era. Well, family first of course. Important papers.

The cats would be waaaay down on the list. :)
 
i actually had this happen to me, it was right around my 18th birthday and in a rental house. it was an electrical fire and by the time i knew she was burning i ran outside and within 2 minutes was watching the roof collapse, it was a total loss. i did grab one thing without even thinking about it, a bottle of booze off the kitchen counter. dont even ask how many times i have kicked myself since then thinking of all the things i shouldve tried to save instead...
 
Back
Top Bottom