Everybody was calling me a hero when I discovered the gas leak in my uncle’s home

Everybody was calling me a hero when I discovered the gas leak in my uncle’s home

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My uncle has been living on his own for a long time.

He’s getting up there in age so I felt like it was only right to check in on him from time to time.

I would bring him groceries and talk to him about things all of the time. This one day, I decided I would check out his HVAC system and make sure he had a fresh air filter. When I went down there, I could smell gas. I looked around and then I found that there was a gas leak. I told my uncle that we had to get out of the house right away. He thought I was just joking at first but I said that there was gas leaking and the whole house could blow up or catch on fire. I realized it was a good idea that I thought about the ventless gas heater he had down there with the pilot light on. I turned off the pilot so that the whole basement would not blow up. We got out of the house and I called up the emergency people to take care of the gas leak. All the windows were open for ventilation and the emergency HVAC workers were able to get in there to fix the gas leak. I didn’t want to be considered a hero or anything, but everybody kept telling me that. Even my uncle thanked me for saving his life because he realized he could have died if his home blew up or caught on fire. I was just doing what anybody else would have done. You kind of rely on your instincts in situations like that.

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