You may
remember the blog I wrote about Porter Street and Redding Street being taken
out from behind our house on 4022 Fullington Street in Oakland to make way for I-580
Freeway.
After the
homes on Porter Street were bought up and vacant, waiting to be torn down, me
and my friends would walk over to Porter Street and rummage around the closed
homes. This was when I was 7 or 8 years of age.
On this day
we went into a home on Porter Street that was basically behind our back fence
on Fullington Street. We walked around inside the house and we found a can of
cleaning fluid. We figured it might be flammable so we poured some of it on a
rag we found inside the house and lit the rag on fire.
Being the
dumb kids we were we failed to realize that leaving the can of cleaning fluid
open means the fumes were all over the place. The instant the rag caught fire
so did the fumes from the can of cleaning fluid and next thing we knew the can
blew up and started the house on fire.
We ran out of
the house and to my home and my friend called the fire department and they put
the fire out. They never knew it was us so we never got caught but I learned a
valuable lesson that day.
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