Hi all. This was my first season burning wood. Ive been lurking forever & cant thank you all enough for the great advice. My Lopi has been good all winter. But.. it'd been shut down for a few weeks until I fired it up for a surprise April storm the other day. I threw in 3 well seasoned pine splits. It came up to 350 pretty fast so I closed the bypass & tapped the damper in a bit. As soon as I got coals I threw in a 4" round & 3 big splits. It was hot quick so I shut all the way to 1/8 open. Then 750deg like that so I tried to shut down completely & get control. The main fire went out but the reburners kept going & going... & going. 2hrs later, holding 750 if not climbing & looking like a main fire was about to light, I doused the coals with water. That stopped the reburners but the coals went strong for another 6 hrs. Granted, there was ALOT of fuel. All I had to do was open the door & It would fire right back up again. I just let it smolder out with both dampers closed. Took all day. All winter Id been able to shut it down at any point it seemed. Maybe I was wrong. Could something be loose? Am I over reacting.. Did i just over fuel too quick? We had high winds & a 30 deg snowy temp drop. Had also been extremely dry here.. Huge forest fire not 5miles away a few days before. Thanks for any thoughts..