Fire demon is lurking

well seems like ritchy rich can afford to replace it anyhow.

colebrookman said:

We just lost 3 houses in our hilltown area to wood stove fires. The last just Wednesday, $1.5 million 3500 sq. ft. gorgeous home. All the owners had loaded their stoves and left their homes. The fire demon is always waiting to pounce. Please be safe and be careful.
Ed.

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Any info on the actual causes? Chimney fires from dirty chimneys? Bad installations with insufficient clearances? Combustibles hiding behind interior brick walls, too close to thimble? Operator errors (like leaving bypass dampers open)? Placing combustible items on top of or too close to the stove? Pets knocking something over onto the stove?

It just about has to be some issue like these. I think it would be difficult to burn a house down with a properly installed wood stove and a reasonably clean chimney without some sort of really boneheaded operation.

What exactly was the cause? Sometimes people just reload, after clearing embers.

There are some real mean and nasty comments following that news article. >:-(

WhitePine said:

There are some real mean and nasty comments following that news article. >:-(

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"dagreek45 NaN comments:
leaving a wood burning stove ablaze while skiing

idiots personified....................omg "

What a clown.

WhitePine said:

There are some real mean and nasty comments following that news article. >:-(

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all of them from people who know nothing about wood stoves.

Can't say that the pallets of biobricks in the garage spontaneously combusted either. I think my wood stove is one of the safest appliances in the house. I'll go beddy bye with the stove full up. Won't do that with the clothes dryer running.

I worry more about a plugged in toaster than the wood stove.

Remkel said:

I worry more about a plugged in toaster than the wood stove.

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Yep. Have a coffee maker that spontaneously turns itself on unless I unplug it. That's way more dangerous than my Oslo.

I like how they allowed all of those comments saying the home owners were dumb, but when I posted that there were a lot of dumb comments it didn't make it past the mods on that article.

Fire is not a living entity . . . and perhaps that is what makes it all the more dangerous and a reason to respect its power as it can affect the rich and the poor . . .