What began as the hilarious Thanksgiving bunker diary of a grown woman staring down a holiday with her extended family in Lake Tahoe ended with a heartfelt “thank you” from Anna Faris to the local Fire Department. The “what” in question is Anna’s Twitter feed, which for two days leading up to her turkey-day meal featured time-stamped snapshots of holiday reality, many of them sent from the upstairs bathroom of a rented vacation house. (“… So we could have rooms,” Anna explained, “you know, to make love in. Which always happens during the holidays. Mom is concerned we don’t have enough garbage bags.”) At first, it seemed Anna would sequester herself for the entire trip (case in point: “1204pm west coast time. Things are looking dire. Still hiding in bathroom. There must be others out there”). But after she griped for days about all-too familiar situations of family togetherness (“1150. Everyone is waiting for me to get my shoes on so we can go for this ‘walk'” … “7:08pm … It’s just like, why do I have to take the trash out again when my brother is just sitting there?????”), it turned out a close call with a gas leak could have made for a much more serious — and actually dire — situation. After the meal, Anna shared a photo of the Thanksgiving table alongside a tweet thanking local emergency responders for preventing a potential disaster. “I’m not quite sure how to express gratitude to the north Lake Tahoe fire department,” she tweeted on Friday, Nov. 29. “…We were saved from carbon monoxide- it’s a stupidly dramatic story but I’m feeling very fortunate.”
