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42 Times A House Burned Down Because Of Stupid People, Stupid Decisions And Stupid Coincidences
As Billy Joel famously sang, “We didn’t start the fire! It was always burning since the world’s been turning!” But occasionally, someone actually does start a fire after making a mindless mistake. And the consequence might be losing their home…
Firefighters on Reddit have been recalling the most ridiculous ways they’ve ever seen people start house fires, so we’ve gathered some of their facepalm-worthy stories below. We all know that it’s important to blow out candles before going to sleep or leaving the house, but apparently, that’s far from the only mistake you can make around fire. So enjoy scrolling through this list, and be sure to upvote the tales that make you want to invest in one more fire extinguisher, just in case!
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#1
I worked for a restoration company. A family cut a small tree down and tried to stuff it up their fireplace to burn. The flute was so crammed with leaves that smoke started to fill the living room. They tried to pull the tree out and that's when it REALLY caught fire. They tried to pull it out of the house, they got as far as the front door. All of them had 2nd/3rd degree burns on their hands/arms and the fire destroyed the front room and entry way of their house. The insurance company asked us if we thought it was a case of fraud, and we told them "No these people are just really stupid".
Panda Kicki 5 months ago
I was at a apoc larp. We had a camp made of tarps. One of the guys woke up, where cold. Light a big candle and fell asleep. Tarp caught fire, almost killed us all. How the candle was supposed to heat up a 45 sq meter camp is still unexplained. No alkohol involved, he was just really stupid.
Uncle Panda 5 months ago
"Alcohol was involved." I don't really know that and yet somehow, I do.
WindySwede 5 months ago
Almost sounds like an euphemism for when the doctor asked why they the pat have an tree in their "flute"..
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#2
My partner’s a firefighter.
He said the dumbest one was where a man tried to barbecue in his basement.
His reasoning?
“I don’t want to go outside and risk exposure to Coronavirus. It would be safer to do it here in the basement.”.
Remi (He/Him) 5 months ago
A guy in our building though bbq on the balcony was a good idea. Maybe, but he forgot to turn off the grill and almost burned the house down. Several apartments had to be renovated for smoke and water damage and his caught on fire on the inside too. Luckily no one got injured, but that was one heck of an expensive bbq
Anthony Elmore 5 months ago
Working as intended. There was just a misunderstanding regarding WHAT was to be barbequed.
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Ellie Ahmed 5 months ago
Every winter where I live, there's a big public service campaign reminding people not to use their gas BBQ inside. You'd be surprised how often people still try it and end up with carbon monoxide poisoning
Huddo's sister 4 months ago
There have been a lot of problems with people using gas burners in tents or in boats without ventilation where I live. Every summer there is at least one.
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ILoveMySon 5 months ago
Reminiscent of people frying turkeys indoors and burning down kitchens. 🤦♂️
Nicole Weymann 5 months ago
"...safer to do it in the basement" DUH. For a given value of "safe", maybe. He came close to being absolutely safe from catching ANY virus.
#3
My Dad was a firefighter, and he once went to a house fire that was started by the old lady who lived there. She liked to burn candles, but didn't like the wax buildup that would form in the cavity, so she would soak up the liquid wax with a napkin. She was doing this when she accidentally brushed a wax soaked napkin up against the flame. She panicked and threw the napkin into the trash . . . where all the other wax napkins were. As the trashcan exploded into flames she fled the house, but not before she went to her oxygen tanks and FLOODED THE HOUSE WITH PURE OXYGEN, because she thought that it would smother the fire.
Ge Po 5 months ago
Well, maybe releasing the oxygen actually kept the tanks from exploding, thus saving the neighbor's houses?
Jeremy James 5 months ago
My partner once had the brilliant idea to try to smother a grease fire with flour. I stopped him in time, but it was one of those slow-motion moments with me yelling, "Nooooooo..."
Tori Whitby 2 weeks ago
😬 what a scary nearmiss but at least it wasn't water
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Heather 5 months ago
I worked as a nurse in a care home and a patient was outside smoking, they had forgotten to take their oxygen off and caught on fire. They accidentally rolled their wheelchair backwards off a receiving dock and broke their neck.
Nicole Weymann 5 months ago
I'm sorry for the patient, but when I read stuff like this I sometimes wonder how the person in question even mnaged to get this old (unless dementia figured somewhere in the accident)
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#4
A roomba knocked a scented candle over and set fire to the rest of the room. The guy said he knew the roomba did it because he watched the whole thing happen, but didn't do anything because he thought it was funny.
Rosecrucian Roeth 5 months ago
Warped, methinks, warped.............................
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Crystalwitch60 5 months ago
Yeah my thoughts exactly, lol always someone else’s fault , n when no one else’s is there blame the roomba lol
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WindySwede 5 months ago
And after the whole house was scented with soot.. 🙀
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#5
My father was a Boston Firefighter for 30+ years. One of his more memorable stories was a foreign family who had ripped up their cast iron bathtub, and built an open flame underneath the tub. They used the tub as a giant oil fryer.
Naturally this didn't work out very well and the house caught fire.
To add to the insanity even more, the family absolutely refused to let my dad and his coworkers in without taking their boots off. Which of course, they couldn't agree too.
Just crazy.
The Cute Cat 5 months ago
Their refusal to let firefighter team to enter with their protective-shoes is the peak stupidness of the story.. Do they think the firefighter is just blowing candle inside?
Min 5 months ago
You don't want them leaving dirty footprints in your nice clean burning house!
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I *am* a firefighter but this wasn't in my district. A guy was attempting to forge a sword in a burn barrel in an alley, based on something he watched on the History Channel. The embers from the "forge" lit up the building he lived in and destroyed 3 multi family residential buildings.
Earonn - 5 months ago
That's why I don't want to live in a high rise. Too many people, and it needs only one idiot who thinks he's Hephaistos.
Panda Kicki 5 months ago
I must say this at least had a novelty among the big load of fires caused by alkohol, smoking and bbqs.
Nicole Weymann 5 months ago (edited)
Much as I like any show where I can watch people do crafty stuff: many if not most of the FIF candidates are firmly outside of the "professionals" circle themselves, unless you call anyone who makes money with what they do "professional". I've seen some pretty neat knives and apparently competent smiths there, but also a LOT of shoddy bungling. I'd love a FIF session where they invite actual professionals and give them enough time and materials to REALLY show what they can do and produce something worthwile instead of "here's a trampoline, make something that looks like *this*, you have three hours".
Load More Replies... Lady Eowyn 5 months ago
Quit with the "only in America," you twatwaffle. This doesn't say where it was and there are stupid people in every country.
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Mister Homeowner was attempting to deep fry tater tots in a sauce pan of oil on a gas stove. The oil frothed up when the frozen tots hit the surface, igniting the whole thing. Mister Homeowner then proceeded to try to grab the pan by the handle and swing it over to the sink. I imagine it was like a Vietnam era napalm run. Well, he managed to spread the fire across the linoleum floor and in panic, let go of the pan, launching it, the remaining burning oil, and tots into the laundry basket which was full of freshly dried clothes. In the ensuing panic Mister Homeowner thought he could try to get the flaming laundry basket out to the back porch. Well, he only managed to knock the flaming basket off the table and it tumbled off the table and strait down the basement stairs leaving a nice trail of burning oil soaked towels all the way down.
Now Mister Homeowner decides to make egress out the back kitchen door, down the stairs to the back yard. He slightly missed the stairs, hit his bare right foot on one the railing posts, breaking a couple toes, and flew forward off the staircase managing to impale himself onto a bit of rebar that was protruding from a cement block they were using as a sort of barrier on the edge of the cement patio. There he stayed, clad only in boxer shorts. He managed to nick his liver pretty bad (but survived). Did I mention he had burned his legs up pretty bad as well?
So, the smells and smoke and the screams of Mister Homeowner, at finding himself stuck through with a rusty piece of iron, alerted Big Mamma, Mister Homeowner's Girlfriend, and Punk Teen Kids Number One and Two upstairs that something was afoot. As far as we could tell, Mamma went looking for the kids or the dogs (both dogs made it out). Girlfriend made it out and down the stairs (over the raging laundry/oil fire one flight below). She found Mister Homeowner on the back patio, bleeding and turning gray, screaming and trying to get off the pike.
The Punk Teen Kids (with the dogs) climbed out a side bedroom window to the side porch roof. The older Punk Teen Kid (about 16 years of age) managed to tumble off. He didn't land well. I think he ended up breaking his arm really bad. The dogs and the younger one got pulled off that roof by the neighbors.
Mamma apparently had a significant cardiac event and fell over. She happened to do so in "the junk room" - a sort of Collyer Brothers style room filled shoulder high with stacked boxes of junk. By the time we got in there, it was just a charred, soaked mess of black slop about waist deep. We had to dig Mamma out of it. That was wretched.
All of this had attracted the attention of the many foreign laborers who were living in the boarding house next door. They helped the best they could but also became a very raucous audience. A few of them were bomberos voluntarios back in Guatemala and having an entire company of mostly non-English speaking vollies show up intent on going to work made things VERY interesting. Two of those guys saved Mister Homeowner's life though.
I have never, in my 27 years of doing this, arrived on a scene of such screaming and chaos.
Rinso The Red 5 months ago
Yakity Sax, I think is the name of the song. And yes, totally appropriate
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Amanda the Panda 5 months ago
FFS just tell the story instead of trying to demonstrate your creative writing course skills.
#8
My neighbors recently burned their house down emptying an ashtray before they went to bed.
They have since quit smoking.
Anthony Elmore 5 months ago (edited)
Back when I still smoked, we always used a bottle of water to dispose of the butts for this specific reason. Not the most sightly container for butts, but very effective at not burning the house down.
Day Andie 5 months ago
Hmmm, was a bit confused for a second about the way the post is worded with the last sentence just hanging out there. I had a vision of them wearing flammable pajamas with wisps of smoke curling off the burnt edges. But I'm sure OP meant they were no longer tobacco users.
#9
A fairly common one, but the response was interesting!
Early February, Western PA. Guy's pipes freeze on the coldest day of the year, -8F.
He tries to thaw them with a propane torch. Sets the wall on fire.
Tries to put the fire out. Fails. Finally calls 911.
Fire Chief is 1/2 block away. Is on-scene in under a minute. Basement is fully involved, main floor catching.
First engine arrives in under 5 minutes. Doors are blocked by fire, exterior attack only.
I'm on an attack line, spraying water into the 2nd-floor window. After 40 minutes, another firefighter comes to relieve me, but since I'd been getting backspray, I'm frozen to the ground. He has to pull me loose.
2 hours later, we have it knocked down. The insurance adjuster shows up. Asst. Chief explains what started the fire.
Adjuster replies, "Oh, yeah, we know. It's OK, we insure for Stupid!"
(Nobody got hurt. Family gets a much nicer house out of the deal.).
Anthony Elmore 5 months ago
PSA: Do not use your d**n torch to defrost pipes. Pay $20 for a cheap heat gun. Like an actual one, not just a blow drier. They're cheap, effective, and surprisingly versatile. They can be used to toast chicken nuggets to crispy perfection. This has been verified.
Nicole Weymann 5 months ago
Not that I'm *planning* to do something this dumb, but since stupid accidents do happen I'd LOVE to know the name of the insurance company - if they're still in business.
DeShotz 5 months ago
I'm just shocked to hear an insurance adjuster refuse to deny a claim like that.
Gregory Garcia 5 months ago
The house was probably on land worth it to them
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In college a girl in the dorms was making popcorn which (not sure how but somehow) caught fire in the microwave. She didn't want to get into trouble for it so she grabbed the flaming bag of popcorn and threw it into the nearby trashcan. Then proceeded to *cover the fire with paper towels* to "smother" it. She actually thought it would work.
It did not work. I came back exhausted after work to find the dorm building surrounded by firetrucks.
Shark Lady 5 months ago
Microwaves have a lot to answer for! During a university open day one of the maintenance guys put his lunch in the microwave, halfway through the cooking time there was a loud bang and suddenly the staff kitchen was on fire. We had to evacuate 300 prospective students and their parents.
Uncle Panda 5 months ago
I managed to hit 22:22 instead of 2:22 on a microwave bag of popcorn. It goes all smelly around the 3 minute mark. 1/10, do not recommend.
Deborah B 5 months ago
I remember living in halls. We had fire alarms every night around 1 am for 4 nights straight. All of us evacuating in our PJs in the freezing cold. Someone guessed who the culprit was, and 8 guys (the max that would fit in his room) had a wee chat with him, and confiscated his stash of microwave popcorn.
Daniel Atkins 5 months ago
Yeah popcorn will burn in the microwave if you give it too much time.
#11
Family friend decided to make major renovations on their home with no background in construction/carpentry. They also didn’t bring a professional to ensure that their renovations were up to fire code. Low and behold an exposed wire sparked a fire in the middle of the night and burned down their entire home. They have 3 kids and are very fortunate they all were able to escape the fire without any injuries. To make matters even worse, they had no house insurance (extreme libertarians that don’t believe in insurance/debt) so they ended up having to rely on a GoFundMe fundraiser (set up by a relative) to recover financially. Last I heard, they were still living in a hotel trying to figure out their next plan of action.
This story alone reaffirms my belief that somethings are better left to the professionals. Even if you’re trying to cut costs, it might be best to pay a little extra to have someone with experience do something for you instead. This avoids terrible situations like this.
Michael P (Perthaussieguy) 5 months ago
I wonder if they are still extreme libertarians now having to rely on a GoFundMe, lol.
Jeremy James 5 months ago
So, who did your wiring? "Oh, my son-in-law did that." When did his house burn down? "About 3 years ag-- wait, how did you know his house burned down!?"
Heather 5 months ago
It's so funny when people complain about pulling permits and having inspections on work done here in the US. It is to avoid this exact issue.
Nicole Weymann 5 months ago
Yupp. Most of those pesky laws are actually in place to protect people from corporate greed and individual stupidity/ignorance/short sightedness, and often only after many déaths.
Load More Replies... GalPalAl 5 months ago
NEVER touch Electrical, Mechanical or Plumbing projects unless you know what you are doing. For small fixes around the home any structural work should be okay. If those things don't k**l you, they will make clean up after the fallout more expensive than if you just started there in the first place
WindySwede 5 months ago
There is no insurance company owned by the once who have the insurance certificate ther. What that is called now. Then the gov is not involved.. 🤷♂️
LongFang 5 months ago
I work in IT in an Insurance Co. I'm insured within that Co. Had a minor water leak from the ceiling. Called them, they sent 2 guys to assess, never heard from them again. that was Summer 2024... I was busy with other stuff so...
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Maybe not the *dumbest* I've seen but the one that comes immediately to mind:
Guy lived in a trailer. Small window broke. He replaced it with a convex piece of glass he salvaged from an old TV. The sun hit at the right time of day, at the right time of the year, and magnified it to a point. That point was a stack of newspapers.
Olive 5 months ago (edited)
This reminds me of a tweet that was going around a few years ago -When I bought my giant crystal ball the lady looked me in the eye and said "whatever you do, never EVER leave it uncovered when you're not home" and i said "oh wow because of spirits?" and she said "what? no - if the sun hits it weird it'll burn down your house"
Nicole Weymann 5 months ago (edited)
I saw a photo of a burned out room. Apparently the fire was caused by a glass door knób, which did exactly that. A "nice try" award in that regard goes to the woman who put her (convex) make-up mirror next to the window where the sun hit it. Didn't quite manage to start a fire, but did manage to leave a finger wide trail of melted and scorched plastic on the window sill and window frame.
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Was in my local paper, turned out to be my friends older brother. He tried to smoke out bees in the loft and set fire to the insulation in the loft and burnt the whole house down.
Robert T 5 months ago
But did he get rid of the bees? Why do people always leave out the important details?
Daniel Atkins 5 months ago (edited)
I'm sure he did the house burnt down. I'm sure the wax probably helped spread the fire. Smoke doesn't chase the bees away it will calm them. Source I'm a beekeeper.
Load More Replies... Crystalwitch60 5 months ago
Well I spose that’s one way to get rid of them , but a tad drastic 🤦♀️leave bees alone , we need them !!
Anthony Elmore 5 months ago
Upvote for the bees, but those tiny little bastards better not be in my house. I don't trapse around their hives, they don't trapse around mine. It's a mutual respect thing.
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My Dad is a retired firefighter, and will always remember the Thanksgiving where he went on 10 calls in a 24 hour period, all related to people deep frying their turkeys. 3 people burnt up parts of their back yard, and one blew up his kitchen, and everyone else either hurt themselves or threw so much smoke out in some way that the department got called to visit. I've seen him come back from wildfires less tired than he was after that shift.
Ge Po 5 months ago
Again, fire blanket. Keep it within arms reach for anyone standing at the stove.
Ace 5 months ago (edited)
Usually these fires are not at a stove. They are mostly people overfilling a large, like several gallon, container with oil, over a propane burner, then lowering the turkey in causing the hot oil to over flow onto the flames... so a fire blanket would not really be up to the task. Edit: and apparently some people are dumb enough to use a frozen turkey. Article and some videos here https://www.syracuse.com/cooking/2014/11/12_greatest_deep-fried_turkey.html
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BookFanatic 5 months ago
My BF at the time decided to deep fry Cornish game hens in the kitchen. Everything turned out fine but I legit refused to set foot in the house until he was finished. Just laid out the fire blanket and the baking soda and sat out on the porch.
Day Andie 5 months ago
Yeah, those couple of years that deep fried turkeys were a big fad were kind of amusing with holiday whoop-sies and accidents.
#15
Not a firefighter, but I set my parents bathroom on fire while getting up from the toilet.
My mom used to leave potpourri simmering in a small bowl on the back of the toilet with a candle to heat / stew it just below. As I was getting up I somehow knocked the apparatus off the back of the commode. We had carpet floors in that bathroom and that section of the floor caught pretty quickly. The fire then found a seam in the wallpaper, and ignited the glue fairly easily as well. As the flames rose, it caught the roll of toilet paper on the way up the wall which really accelerated things. All this took < 30 seconds, and I remember being somewhat mesmerized at the path the flames traveled. I also remembered that I had flushed the toilet before realizing what had happened. I somehow thought to grab the toilet bowl brush, shove it into the commode to get it wet, and then beat out the flames.
The aftermath was surprisingly minimal. The small section of carpet was destroyed (but my parents replaced the carpet everywhere a few years later), the wallpaper wiped clean with some hot water and a rag, and thankfully there was only a little permanent smoke damaged on the ceiling which has seemed to fade over time.
V 5 months ago
Well, that's just one more reason to NOT have carpet in bathrooms - to prevent house fires. Who knew...
Roxy222uk 5 months ago
Honestly not the first room in the house I would consider a fire risk. The candle on the cistern sounds like an accident waiting to happen
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Day Andie 5 months ago
Any place with carpet in the bathroom really needs to have a good sanitizing fire ever so often.
Load More Replies... Ace 5 months ago
Presumably, from the use of the word "simmering", this was a scented oil diffuser or something similar, not actually somebody heating a bowl of dried plant materials. I hope so, anyway.
Ashtophet 5 months ago
Probably potpourri in water, with a candle under the bowl. Who puts a candle on the toilet tank, guess no one in the house had long hair!
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Kim Gatlin 4 months ago
Simmering potpourri, carpeted bathroom, wallpaper. Did this happen around 1983-84?
#17
Mid-eighties, near beginning of my career. Young lady finished putting flea spray on her pupper, when she noticed a tick embedded in it’s flank.
Ever hear of the tick removal technique in which you blow out a match and touch the hot tip to the tick, thereby causing it to back out of the dog? Yeah. Dog caught on fire.
Little fellow ran under the bed, which also caught fire. Lady grabbed the pup with spray-wet hands, and they too caught on fire.
Long story short, the house was a mess, but both the lady and the dog fortunately survived with moderate burns.
There was also the lady who tried to sanitize her panties in the microwave, but I was off that day.
Crystalwitch60 5 months ago
I truely hope that lady had that poor furbaby taken off her , how thick can you get ffs
Ron Man 5 months ago (edited)
Accidents happen and situations get out of control easily. I hope you're never in a situation where you're trying to save a loved one (like the fur baby) and things keep getting worse and deadlier. And if it does happen, I hope when you tell someone they say, "I'm sorry that happened, that must have been terrible. I'm glad you're both okay". Instead of some stupid a*s comment about you being stupid and deserve to have your fur baby taken away because you're so inept. Because only a piece of ship a*****e would make a comment like that.
Load More Replies... GalPalAl 5 months ago
Lack of any logic or critical thinking. Why would you try to put a match against a dog's skin to k**l a flea? FFS
Day Andie 5 months ago
No, actually that has been a traditional way to get a tick to back out of a bite for years. When the tick lets go (backs out) there are no mouth parts left in the bite to cause infection. And you don't put the match against the dog's skin, you put it on the tick. The old timers were just smarter than people now. They had good eye/hand coordination, and they knew when a match was completely blown out.
Load More Replies... Kim Gatlin 4 months ago
Ok, this was a Charlie Foxtrot for sure. But why, oh why was someone sanitizing their panties in the microwave? I'm just bumfuzzled over here.
#18
I was a chef before I was on a volunteer fire department for a bit and this was at a restaurant down the street from my old one. Cooks at this restaurant forgot to plug the drain in the deep fryer. So what happened was they put oil in a fryer, which drained immediately, right before lunch, turned on the empty fryer, and that’s when the coils caught fire. So not only did they spill 5 gallons of oil, burn a fryer, fill a restaurant with smoke and k**l the service day, this was the second time it happened.
#19
Not a firefighter, but a guy in our dorm set the kitchen on fire when he tried to make a grilled cheese by assembling the sandwich then jamming the whole thing into a toaster and passing out.
BookFanatic 5 months ago
I made grilled cheese for lunch today! However, I neither utilized the toaster nor passed out before completion. I did set the smoke alarm off. Twice.
Spocks's Mom 5 months ago
It doesn't taste as good if you don't set the smoke alarm off. Yours must have tasted twice as good. 👍
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Decided to use an angle grinder (illegally) on a very high fire danger day, set the grass alight and burned down 12 houses.
"The grass just burned so quickly"
No s**t you f*****t, why do you think we make grinding illegal on those days.
Honorable mentions go to the military for doing something similar with explosives because "we are on defence property so you cant tell us what to do"
Set fire to defence land, fire kept going, killing 2, destroying 500 houses and $94 million.
Nicole Weymann 5 months ago
Our military in Germany did something similar some years ago (August 2018), though no houses got damaged. In a very hot and dry summer with nigh on every news report warning people about forest fire hazards, and rivers running dry they decided to stick to the prearranged schedules and do target practice with rockets. The testing ground was a moorland, only after the summer we'd been having that year "dried out peat" was a more apt description. It did take an amazing five days for something to go wrong, and another four days to escalate, but in the end we had ourselves the nicest moor fire you could wish for. By September 11th it had escalated enough that people 200 km away could *smell* it. Drivers had to deal with line-of-sight obstructions as far away as 100 km (in wind direction). At its peak the fire had roughly 1700 people actively fighting it. It lasted until 10th October. DUH.
#21
This happened this past fall, but a family had a “fairy house” that was outside, right next to their wood sides house. The fairy house was made out of an old tree, and had a bunch of decorations in it, including incense candles. One evening, they decided that they would light the candles for the fairy’s, which then caught the tree on fire, which then extended into the house. Since it started on the outside, it ran up the side of the house and got into the attic and second floor. The family was home, but in the first floor while this was happening, it wasn’t until someone driving on the road saw the smoke and went to alert the family. Luckily, we were able to save the structure, there was a bit of damage to the roof, attic and second floor, but the homeowners are rebuilding those areas.
Earonn - 5 months ago
What happened to "never keep a candle alight that you don't supervise at all times"?
#22
Not a firefighter but happened in my building. In india generally you have small praying place in your house, like a little version of a temple. You lit Diya (lamp) everyday and pray there. In this particular case the family Decided to keep this thing on a fukin refrigerator. The diya fell behind the fridge due to wind from the window adjacent to it . the condenser caught fire and literally exploded. The whole floor was on fire. Luckily no one was home. It really was a dumb decision to keep a temple on a fukin Fridge.
Janissary35680 5 months ago
My first thought was that "Fụkin" is an Indian white goods brand...
Stardust she/her 5 months ago
The whole thing with diyas is why I hate Diwali and other Hindu festivals as my pyrophobia is crippling around those times
#23
So, here in Argentina we have el cordero a la cruz, AKA cooking a whole lamb with open fire, well, it just so happens that pines are really flamable, and, if you make an unprotected fire in a floor covered in pine leaves near a blooming pine...
Krystle Deschene 5 months ago
Lady Eowyn needs to stop correcting other people all the time. Especially when half the time it's done rudely and wrongly.
HangryHangryHippo 5 months ago
Oh no! Con el tiempo y paciencia que lleva hacer un cordero a la estaca!
#24
Someone tried to make a gummy bear lamp like in iCarly to test it really gonna burn.. and then ... His house was on fire.
#25
I’m not a firefighter but after a month of my sister living in her first apartment, we had a huge snowstorm and she bought some everlast (is that what they’re called?) fire logs to save on heat. She put one in the fireplace and tried to light it but I guess it never really caught fire and just smoldered for a while. Disappointed, she shut the flue, closed the glass doors, and went to bed. She woke up in the middle of the night to her apartment filled with thick smoke. In a panic, she took the smoldering log from the fireplace and tossed it on her snowy wooden balcony. In the morning, the log had burned through her balcony and the one below it. If you looked through the hole, you could see it on the patio two floors below her.
#26
In the city of Colorad Springs, the local news did a fluff piece about candle safety near Christmas. After they were done filming , the store owner that they were filming in took the crew out to breakfast. She didn't put out the candles, and burned several shops to the ground. The film crew was there to film her breakdown when they realised what caused the fire.
#27
My uncle is a firefighter, the answer is Christmas trees. They dry out, they become a ticking time bomb. He used to do an annual demonstration where he'd let a Christmas tree dry out for a few months then take it outside and ignite it. The flames would shoot 40ft in the air and the tree would be gone in a few seconds. It was mightily impressive to behold... and I'm sticking with artificial trees.
Day Andie 5 months ago
Put it up the week before Christmas, take it down a week later. Even then, although you've watered, you're going to get needles everywhere. It's better if you drag it out on a sheet, but f'ukn needles EVERYWHERE!
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Not a firefighter, however I was an insurance agent for ten years and I have two to share:
Client was an elderly, mental handicapped woman. She burned her apartment building down. Apparently she was a bit of a hoarder and she filled the top shelf of her bedroom closet with old newspapers. At some point she put one of her wigs on top of the newspaper pile, right underneath the bulb. Or more accurately touching the bulb. Add that to the fact she never turn her closet light off, and there you go. Whole building gone, no one hurt though.
Second one was a gentleman who was making a huge batch of chili. He had it simmering on the stove, went out to mow the lawn. Somehow it boiled over and started a fire in between the walls in the kitchen. Burned half the house down, again no one was hurt.
Roxy222uk 5 months ago
Well some dishes need to simmer for a couple of hours, so I might go outside and do a bit of gardening. I wouldn’t leave the property. What I can’t understand is how some chilli started a fire.
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I'm driving by a house and see smoke coming out from under soffit. I see a guy thawing pipes, with his feet sticking out of crawl space. I tell him, his house is on fire and I'm a firefighter. I also tell him to get out and call FD, (before cell phones) I'll go to firehouse and get truck. I get in firetruck, and call in fire to HQ. He never called it in, and was still under house thawing pipes when we responded to fire. Upper wall and attic was in flames.
#30
I perform restoration on fire damaged homes. I saw a fire where the fire investigator concluded it started because a bird picked up a lit cigarette and dropped it in a gutter full of dry leaves.
#31
Not a firefighter, but our next door neighbors built a brand new house and moved in. The last item to finish was stain the deck. After the painters were done with the first day, they took all the stained rags, stuffed them into a plastic bag and left them next to the house. Sometime after midnight the rags self-combusted, caught fire and burnt the house down.
Aileen Grist 5 months ago
Would it be Linseed oil of they self-combusted. I know that stuff can if a pile of rags is showved together.
#32
College dorm kids reheating a pizza on the oven...still inside the cardboard box.
Anthony Elmore 5 months ago
The irony is that you can totally heat regular paper in an oven without it combusting, but I guess carboard just has a lower combustion point.
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ColdSteelRonin 5 months ago
There's a method of cooking turkey in a brown paper bag. At proper temperature and without contacting the heating element it's perfectly safe. Cardboard is paper. They either had the oven set way too high or were making contact with the heat source.
Jessica Hedges 5 months ago
I work for an apartment rental company and I had a tenant call in a fire in her stove. Turns out she didn't read the directions on a frozen pizza box and threw the pizza in the oven still wrapped in the plastic wrap and on the cardboard bottom.
Ace 5 months ago (edited)
I do sometimes actually put pizzas, still in their box, in the oven. We don't get delivery where I live, so walking home in the winter (in a mountain ski village) even the five minutes from the pizza restaurant will start to chill the pizzas. Put them in the oven, which is not pre-heated, still in boxes while getting boots and outer clothes off, getting ready to eat. Just five or ten minutes, and it's just got the oven hot enough to have initially stopped the remaining heat escaping and then started getting it back to eating temperature. Low setting and/or for a short time only, and supervised, it's fine.
Matt from Canada 5 months ago
Do your children also not know proper grammar? Would it be fair to blame you for that?
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I have been a firefighter for 20 years. The dumbest way I've seen a house fire start was when people squatting in a basement decided that a space heater would be handy in drying their clothes. Then they waited15 minutes before calling for us, trying to put out with a garden hose (into the basement on a 5-degree night). They burned down their home and the one next door.
#34
Most of the fires I've seen have been starte by the usual stupid. unattended candles, smoking in bed, smoking on d***s and passing out, unattended kitchens, etc.
The weirded one I've been to was a porch fire caused by sunlight refracting through a glass hummingbird feeder.
The ones we can never get to on time are kitchen grease fires doused with water. Those people are lucky to get out of the house at all.
#35
I was a volunteer fire fighter for 15 years, these are all calls I personally responded on.
- There was a power outage. This lady legitimately lit 400 candles, widely distributing them about the house. She placed about 40 of them along the floorboards near the kitchen cabinets. The particle board based countertops caught. We kept it to room and contents. The husband arrived home during overhaul, and it was difficult to keep a straight face while she screamed at him for not buying her marble countertops. We had just put out the candles at the base of the bed, too. I'm not sure how the countertops caught and the sheets didn't.
- Teenagers running around a field shooting bottle rockets at each other. No one got hit, but one went in the barn, and there goes the hay.
- Guy received a recall notice for his Buick with the supercharged 3.8. You know, the well known recall of them spontaneously combusting in your garage? He knew he took good care of his car. I'm sure he did. I'm also sure he should have obeyed the instructions to park that car outside.
- Do not light cigarettes while reloading ammunition. I will not go close to your house until the ammo is done cooking off. It will be in the basement before the ammo stops. My deck gun will keep your neighbors somewhat safe, but your place is done.
- This wasn't really a structure fire, but it did involve fire: just because HF sells a coupling to allow you to move propane between tanks, doesn't mean you should use it. Definitely don't use it in your basement, or refill like 20 tanks in a row with the windows closed. Eventually, it'll go boom. It won't last long, but you won't have windows anymore, and that helicopter ride is expensive.
#36
I hope people see this.
My neighbor had a big barn with a huge mouse problem. So he built this machine that a mouse goes on top of a wired platform and gets zapped to death. He was so proud of this machine he had to show the entire neighborhood. Fast forward three weeks, his entire barn burns down to the ground. The cause? Mouse got zapped, lit on fire, runs into a whole bunch of bailed hay.
Anthony Elmore 5 months ago
They actually sell these kinds of traps (But not rigged up by Jim Bob, here). I think they generally close behind the mouse though, and the voltage is a more reasonable level to help prevent the mouse from catching on fire.
Anthony Elmore 5 months ago
Confirmed. Bail bondsmen and court clerks generally won't accept payment in hay, so you won't be getting any bails using hay.
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Firefighter here. One extremely cold night the temperature was -11 wind chills -40’s , this guy tries starting a fire in his fireplace and couldn’t get it started. He decides to use gasoline, dumps 1/2 gallon on the firewood stacked by the door and the other 1/2 onto the wood in the fireplace. As he attempted to light the fire he couldn’t get the lighter to work. Now the vapors are really starting to build, he then goes to the kitchen which adjoins the room with the fireplace to use the stove to light some newspaper. As soon as he turned the k**b on the stove the igniter lit the gasoline vapors. The living room was instantly on fire. The vapors singed all his hair and got first degree burns on his hands and face. We on the other hand spent the next few hours in the extreme cold. Flash ahead 3 hours, the firewood outside has somehow ignited and we have to go back. The second fire had sometime to really grow, middle or the night, everyone in bed no one around. Longest coldest night of my life, all because some fool decided to use gasoline to start a fire indoors.
Crystalwitch60 5 months ago
F kin hell fire , ( punn in tended ) you really can’t fix stupid can you 😱
Gregory Garcia 5 months ago
Gnob is censored! Lol I always refer to my ex as a gnob gobblin... Iykyk hwak thua
#38
Not a firefighter but the apt building I stayed in had a pretty good fire. Guy threw a lit cigarette in a coffee can full of butts. It was on the far end of the building from us, so my upstairs neighbor and I got to stay. Everyone else had to move. We were dealing with water leaks for almost a year after that. It took them that long to sort out insurance stuff and make repairs. Finally put on a new roof a few weeks before we moved.
#39
Not a firefighter, but I was living in a big old single family home that had been converted into six apartments. Because it was a house, it had a shingle roof. The owner hired one of those "unlicensed, uninsured" type outfits to work on the roof - the kind you find hanging out at Home Depot in the morning looking for jobs.
Anyways long story short the guy was on the roof, smoking, and somehow caught it on fire. Rather than dialing 911, he ran down three flights of fire escape, got the garden hose, and ran it back up. Once he got to the top, he realized he never turned it on, so he ran back down, turned it on, and ran back up. Apparently by that time it was out of control, so he headed off. One of the neighbors finally called 911 but by then it was a full on blaze, destroyed the top two floors and most of the first floor.
Moral of the story is, just call the professionals.
Brian Droste 5 months ago
I need my roof replaced.food. going to use a certified roofing company to replace my roof.
#40
Haha great stories guys but nothing will top this. Kitchen fire lady out front screaming we go in see fire coming from weird areas in cabinets, like how is it in these cabinets? They aren’t near stove, electrical nothing. Put fire out nothing major station was close to house so we were quick. I’m the Lt. asking questions about fire from homeowner. She has no clue how it started. I prod further as to why these cabinets in a weird area where nothing is were burning. She says I put my oven mitt away in that cabinet in corner....it was on fire when I put it there could that be it? Yes you read that right. She caught her oven mitt on fire and put it away....still on fire. She didn’t see the problem.
Lady Eowyn 5 months ago
A lady says her kitchen fire is coming from the cabinet, not the stove. Her oven mitt was on fire and she put it in the cabinet while it was still burning.
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#41
My uncle was FDNY and they had a call for smoke coming out of a house. They show up bang on the door, no answer. End up breaking the door down. There’s a family in the living room with some kind of pit in the middle and they were roasting a goat over open coals.
Ace 5 months ago (edited)
Err, probably not. An open fire does not normally produce carbon monoxide, which is a result of partial combustion. Even if they had all the doors and window closed they'd have been choking on the smoke long before any harmful levels of CO could have built up.
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#42
Based on the stories from relatives, the answer is by allowing ten years worth of dryer lint to accumulate inside the machine until it just bursts into flames. It was not an isolated case.
#43
Probably too late for this to get traction but by far the dumbest is people smoking while on medical oxygen. Like the tanks are coated in labels about how flammable it is.
Edit: flammable is the inccorect term to use as the oxygen itself will not burn.
BrownEyedGrrl 5 months ago
My friend used to do that. I was in the passenger seat of her car when she was driving. I asked what was beeping. It was her oxygen tank. She was smoking a cigarette.
Anthony Elmore 5 months ago
The correct term is that it is an oxidizer. It catalyzes the reaction that causes fire.
#44
My father lived in a rented apartment. The landlord lived in the apartment beneath him.. My father had switched the fuse off the oven off, because he had done some electrical work.
He also put some receipts on the oven. In the meantime, the landlord saw the flipped off fuse (located on the basement) and flipped it on.
We wondered why it smelled burned and we discovered that the oven was on, and had burned the paper to ash.
Amazingl, it did not really burn, the paper just utnrd to ash. You could even still read some words, but if you touched it, it just turned to dust.
Brian Droste 5 months ago
If youturn a switch off like that, you need to tell everyone around you and what you plan on doing so they don't turn the swicth back on. There are even locks you can put on switches to prevent then being turn on.
Hippopotamuses 5 months ago
Surely the oven had a wall switch. Which should have been off, as well.
#45
Not a firefighter, but there's a case I heard about on the news where someone was trying to burn spiders with hairspray and a lighter and caught the whole house on fire.
Another tried to deepfry a frozen turkey inside the house.
#46
My dad (and hero) was a firefighter for 30 years. He had lots of great stories here are two:
His last week before retiring he had a call where this guy and his new wife had just returned from their honeymoon. They put their lawn mower and yard tools in the basement for safe keeping during their trip. He went downstairs, hoped on to drive the mower outside. Well gas fumes had built up in the basement so when he started the mower, a fire flashed over. Yeah house was a total loose except for the refrigerator in the garage with plenty of beer to toast their epic return.
Second story. They were called to a garage fire in kind of a rural part of the district. It was a large detached garage and I don't remember exactly how the fire started. Probably something to do with a blow torch. Anyway, trucks arrived, started to run the lines, confirmed with the owner that no one was inside. A bit later the owner runs over because he forgot to tell Dad that there were tanks of flammable gases inside. Dad had everyone drop back fast. Of course An explosion followed and all of the trucks that were closer to the garage had all of the light covers melt. He said it looked like the trucks were crying. Thank God no injuries or causalities except the trucks.
#47
A guy had a bunch of ants coming through his wall. He started burning them with a butane torch and it ended really badly. He thought it be ok because the exterior wall was concrete. Yes some people are that stupid.
#48
A teenager started a grease fire on the cook top. He was naked when he found it and didn’t want it to splash on him, so he moved it to the carpet and hit it with a wet mop. Lol.
#49
When my boyfriend was a firefighter there was this one time an old lady put 16 of those starter logs in her fireplace and lit it. Burned her house to the ground.
#50
News article I read.
One guy had a fish bowl in his garden shed.
Sunlight was focussed through the bowl, through his kitchen window.....
Fwoomph!
#51
My dad said that one time there was a small fire because a homeless man tried to use a microwave (that he installed himself underneath the pier) and it exploded. Apparently it worked the first few times he used it though.
Just off the Goat 5 months ago
What did he use for electricity to run a microwave? I've never seen an electrical outlet under a bridge. Very long extension cord maybe?
#52
18 year old got mad at her parents and set the house on fire. She was an adult and a resident and did it intentionally, so insurance didn't pay. Whole family, including her was homeless.
Stardust she/her 5 months ago
I’m sorry what? How can someone be so petty and burn their house down? What was she expecting with that stunt, a heartfelt apology from her parents in the form of a Shakespearean sonnet?
Anthony Elmore 5 months ago
Probably not the first of a long series of behavioral issues combined with 18-year-olds still being on that brink of not being adults in terms of mental development.
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We got called for a house fire once in a pretty decent neighborhood. After we put the fire out, we were talking to the owner who told us "the bugs in the garage were everywhere so I was just trying to burn a few of them". Turns out, she smoked m**h, hallucinated, soaked the floor in gasoline and lit it off. Burned her arms pretty good, but overall she was fine. Luckily we contained it to the garage, but you truly never know what people are thinking.
#55
A few months ago my childhood home caught in fire because my dad threw his gloves in the garage after working in the firepit in the backyard and a stray ember was still on his glove. Tens of thousands of dollars of damage ensued. Be careful, guys.
#56
Lady was mad at her landlord. So she soaked an interior closet full from floor to ceiling of clothes in her second floor apartment with an accelerant. I think rubbing alcohol. She then lit it on fire and left. Luckily she shut the door which kept it at a slow burn and contained for the most part. Her apartment and everything in it was ruined from water and smoke damage. She was very upset we were throwing her clothes and items from an adjacent bedroom out the 2nd story balcony to the ground below to overhaul and ensure we weren’t called back for a re kindle and burned down apartment complex.
#57
Not a firefighter, but a childhood friend of mine is. Last time we were catching up he had a story about how someone's water bed sprung a leak that caused an electrical fire due to a power strip sparking near curtains. House was fine but they need some new shades and a fresh coat of paint lol.
#58
My mom was a fire fighter in her early 30s. One day she got an emergency call saying "I think our neighbors house is on fire and the people inside aren't responding". They immediately rushed to destination. The house looked fine except the lot of smokes coming out of the windows. They knocked the door no one responded at first. So they asked if anyone inside. The conversation went like this
They: "Hello! Is anyone inside. There's a smoke coming out of your house."
The boy : "Who are you? Are you momma's friend here to help me with my dish?"
They: "Yeah we are. Open the door and let me in"
Him : "The doors open. Com'on in"
What they saw was the dumbest thing ever. There was a kid laying on the sofa and was watching TV and waving at them while the pan on the gas stove was burning. They lay off the fire and asked the kid what he was doing with that pan. He said he was making Chinese food he saw on TV. He said the people would fire the dish and that made the dish delicious.
#59
Not a firefighter. I was an apartment manager and I suddenly hear screaming and smell smoke. I run outside and see smoke billowing out from the apartment next to me. I have keys to every apartment, but I try the door and find it is unlocked. Smoke is coming from the kitchen.
Middle aged single lady likes deep-fried foods, and put a pot on the stove half-filled with oil, and turned on the heat to "high". It is apparently taking a while, so she decides to lay down on her bed for a few minutes to rest, and "of course" falls asleep.
The vapors coming off the hot oil have ignited, so I turn the flame off, and then take the pot-holder cloths and scoot it over to an unpowered burner.
As I am yelling to see if anyone is in the smoke-filled apartment, I then see that the flames have gone out, so I take the boiling oil-pot outside and set it on the sidewalk.
Sleepy woman wakes up from the noise and is confused.
#60
Obligatory not a firefighter, but one of my friends burned his kitchen pretty bad because after he put some pizza rolls in the oven, he used the timer feature on his microwave, setting it for twenty minutes. Problem is, he never turned the timer mode on and had headphones in, so he didn't hear the fateful whirrrrrrrr of a currently microwaving microwave.
Ace 5 months ago
Something not quite right here, the story's got twisted in the re-telling. Twenty minutes in a microwave is already a danger and clearly not what was needed, but you can't just turn them on, they're always on a timer.
K Barnes 5 months ago
I think they meant that the person accidentally turned on the empty microwave for 20 minutes instead of the microwave's timer function. Before we had a stove with a timer I used to use my microwave's timer, too, and have accidentally turned it on instead of the timer function just like in this story (but always heard it start and turned it off).
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Not a firefighter, but a guy in my friend's office building forgot his cheese pita in the toaster over. Heard from his colleagues that he was still a temp when he started the fire.
BookFanatic 5 months ago
One of my colleagues forgot to unwrap her sandwich before sticking it in the micro. Wrapper caught fire, lots of smoke, everyone evacuated. Smelled like burnt paper for about a week afterward.
#62
My chief tells a story of a fire investigation he was a part of. He was interviewing the homeowner in the burned out hall of his house looking at the burned out closet that now had a skylight. They were having trouble determining a cause, so my chief was having the owner walk through what he had been doing prior to the fire. The homeowner said to him, "I finished vacuuming around the fire place, brought the vacuum to the closet and ... I just burned down my house, didn't I"
Another one, a few years ago, cleaned out their wood stove and put the hot ashes in a cardboard box on their porch up against the siding.
And there is always thawing frozen pipes with a torch...
#63
2 kids playing in their backyard and decided to light the shed on fire then it spread to their 2 cars and their house, all burnt down.
A firefighter started a fire at his ex’s house to “win her back” by “saving her” claiming he was just driving by and saw it.
Kid lit curtain on fire on 2nd floor.
Apartment building almost caught fire because someone decided they could grill on the 2nd floor of an apartment building right next to the siding.
More kids being dumb and lighting their houses on fire somehow.
#64
1. Once my neighbor stole 15 propane tanks and decided to make a DIY blowtorch. By neighbor I mean he lived below us. We were giving him our basement. He almost lit the house on fire but then he tripped on something and fell over. The next morning we looked and saw it had burned a little bit but not much. He was also very drunk that day.
2. Once we lived in a basement suite and the people who lived above us were making toast at 2am and the used a fork to get it out but the fork hit something so the toaster caught fire and my mom tried to wake me up but I just pulled my blanket over my head and said "I just want to sleep a little more" And then my mom said the house could burn down and I was the first one out of my house. My neighbors forgot they had ferrets inside. We grabbed our dog but they didn't grab their ferrets. The fire department came but my neighbors could have put out the fire if they unplugged the toaster and putting baking soda on it.
#65
Not a firefighter but friend of one and couple years ago he shared this gem.
-Dumb drunk lady (DDL
-Sad Husband(SH
-Fire department record keeper (FD otherwise my friend
____________________________________________
In my area I don't know how this is for everyone else but I assume similar,they will take records on all fire that includes...Cause,Deaths/Injurys and some other stuff I can't remember.
FD:And would you like to explain how the fire started ?
DDL: So I was drinking as usual but my beer spilled so I went to go get a paper towel and I put down my LIT cigar down I come back and my entire chair,table and a small bit of my floor on fire.
DDL:So I-
SH:You put cardboard on it and now this is the reason you have stop drinking.
DDL:Well your always out of the house!
SH:That's because I'm the only one that pays the house mortgage!
At this point they start arguing about their crappy marrige
FD:Both of you please calm down I just wanna know what started the fire.
Both of them calm down a little but only because my friend is really calm
FD:DDL and SH continue
DDL:So I put cardboard on the fire to suffocate it but it didn't work so I threw water at it but it was already to late that's when I called 911
Please note that this lady is constantly slurring her words she was really hammered apparently.
FD wrote this down and said "Have a good day."
I'm really new to this whole thing so sorry if anything is wrong.
What do you think ?
BookFanatic 5 months ago
My mother called the fire dept when she "set the stove on fire." Firefighters showed up in full gear with the hoses...and then spotted the approximately 2" flame happily burning itself into the backsplash. One of the guys filled a pot of water at the sink and dumped it onto the inferno. Dad never let Mom live that one down.
Anthony Elmore 5 months ago
My dad always tells the story of how he burnt down his house as a kid. He was in some room, I don't know how the initial fire started. It may not have even been him that started it, but he was playing with his toy dump truck when he spots the fire. So he does the responsible thing and plants the toy truck directly on top of the fire and carries on his merry little way. The toy truck did not, in fact, prevent the house from going up in flames.
sbj 5 months ago
Reading a lot of these confirms that I'm not unreasonable in never allowing candles inside my home
Anthony Elmore 5 months ago
I'd recommend them in a glass enclosure. Lantern-style, you know? So long as you make sure the lantern is on stable footing.
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Had a fellow deep frying hot dogs (??) which caught the kitchen curtains on fire. Does he call it in? No. He runs barefoot in February to his wife's workplace several blocks away to tell her. She freaks and asks if the FD is at the house yet. He says he hasn't called. She calls and they go back to the now burning house. FD arrives and hotdog fryer guy attacks the chief for not showing up when the fire started. Gets put in police car and taken away. Managed to save half the house.
BookFanatic 5 months ago
My mother called the fire dept when she "set the stove on fire." Firefighters showed up in full gear with the hoses...and then spotted the approximately 2" flame happily burning itself into the backsplash. One of the guys filled a pot of water at the sink and dumped it onto the inferno. Dad never let Mom live that one down.
Anthony Elmore 5 months ago
My dad always tells the story of how he burnt down his house as a kid. He was in some room, I don't know how the initial fire started. It may not have even been him that started it, but he was playing with his toy dump truck when he spots the fire. So he does the responsible thing and plants the toy truck directly on top of the fire and carries on his merry little way. The toy truck did not, in fact, prevent the house from going up in flames.
sbj 5 months ago
Reading a lot of these confirms that I'm not unreasonable in never allowing candles inside my home
Anthony Elmore 5 months ago
I'd recommend them in a glass enclosure. Lantern-style, you know? So long as you make sure the lantern is on stable footing.
Load More Replies... Yrral Spavit 5 months ago
Had a fellow deep frying hot dogs (??) which caught the kitchen curtains on fire. Does he call it in? No. He runs barefoot in February to his wife's workplace several blocks away to tell her. She freaks and asks if the FD is at the house yet. He says he hasn't called. She calls and they go back to the now burning house. FD arrives and hotdog fryer guy attacks the chief for not showing up when the fire started. Gets put in police car and taken away. Managed to save half the house.
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