Another fire

[save$]

Interesting report, Can't figure out. What they are talking about as the cleaning device in the chimney falling apart and causing the fire.
http://www.kjonline.com/news/new-portland-home-destroyed-by-fire_2013-01-22.html

 

[heat seeker]

Maybe part of the "T" cleanout fell off???

 

[hossthehermit]

They make a brush system that you can clean your chimney from inside the house by turning a handle or something. Heard about it a few years back, maybe that ???????

 

[Bioburner]

Could the steel roof have dropped snow and ice on the exaust and compromised the pipe and got the vinyl siding going? Hard to get good look at venting with all the snow piled up and roofing steel laying on the ground. Would like to get a real answer on this as things get cold for a long time we will see more fires.

 

[SmokeyTheBear]

Too many questions and another no information article.

Maybe the clean out cap wasn't secured after the last cleaning and it dropped off and there were dry leaves below where it was.

Maybe something came off the roof and struck the venting and that resulted in dry leaves catching or hot exhaust getting inside the wall.

They might have been burning like a number of folks that visit here with a plugged up stove and generating 'sote. It is wood correct? Once a good batch of 'sote lights up you can kiss a lot of things bye bye.

Keep 'em clean folks.

 

[Bioburner]

Press is always right!?

 

[save$]

These are the points I questioned:

"It looks like the cleaner had fallen apart and left some ashes on the floor of the chimney. Some sparks caught on fire and it spread up the chimney and up all three floors," he said.
"It's so sad. They had a pellet stove and those are supposed to burn clean. It shouldn't have happened," Agren said.

 

[Bioburner]

OK, a untrained observer statement that probably overheard "looks like the cleanout trap on the tee fell off and sparks from the stove caught fire to something in the stove area" from someone else at the scene. No way was the statement first hand?

 

[SmokeyTheBear]

They make a brush system that you can clean your chimney from inside the house by turning a handle or something. Heard about it a few years back, maybe that ???????

You must be thinking of something like this http://www.swiftchimneycleaner.com/

 

[hossthehermit]

You must be thinking of something like this http://www.swiftchimneycleaner.com/

Yeah, looks like the one, Smokey. Like I said, no idea if that's what did it, just my first thought upon reading "the cleaner had fallen apart"