It Happens Every Year Around Here

[BrotherBart]

We just had our first day under fifty degrees all day. Walk outside and you hear fire engine sirens every where.

How many birds nests are burning down houses tonight? How many people just bought the house this year and didn't look at that chimney and just had to light a mood fire?

 

[ourhouse]

Some people will never learn

 

[Roospike]

Hot ashes in the trash bag , ashes where there not supposed to be stored......

 

[webbie]

Temperate climates can be dangerous because, as you suggest, folks don't use their stoves and fireplaces heavily - but then if they ever decide to do so.....

 

[DiscoInferno]

We just had our first day under fifty degrees all day. Walk outside and you hear fire engine sirens every where.

How many birds nests are burning down houses tonight? How many people just bought the house this year and didn't look at that chimney and just had to light a mood fire?

How far are you from DC? It was in the high 30's in the day and teens at night in the DC area back in late Nov/early Dec. I recall because there was a big house fire visible from my back porch that night. Big flames from the roof. I never saw a news report on it, not sure if it was fireplace-related.

 

[KateC]

Firetruck went wailing by here awhile ago, and a bit later an ambulance----raises the hair on my neck wondering if it was the house down the street billowing blue smoke yesterday...

 

[BrotherBart]

We just had our first day under fifty degrees all day. Walk outside and you hear fire engine sirens every where.

How many birds nests are burning down houses tonight? How many people just bought the house this year and didn't look at that chimney and just had to light a mood fire?

How far are you from DC? It was in the high 30's in the day and teens at night in the DC area back in late Nov/early Dec. I recall because there was a big house fire visible from my back porch that night. Big flames from the roof. I never saw a news report on it, not sure if it was fireplace-related.

45 miles out in the sticks. In September and October they usually just turn up the thermostat. Out here when it stays around thirty or forty the stoves and fireplaces light off.

 

[ourhouse]

Hot ashes in the trash bag , ashes where there not supposed to be stored......

ROO does this mean I can't store hot ashes in a paper bag in the hall closet anymore? Dam there goes that idea.LOL

 

[Roospike]

Hot ashes in the trash bag , ashes where there not supposed to be stored......

ROO does this mean I can't store hot ashes in a paper bag in the hall closet anymore? Dam there goes that idea.LOL

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Yeah , Sounds like that idea might be out.

 

[MrGriz]

Not in your hall closet any way.....Maybe the MIL's.....Ok, still not a good idea.

 

[ourhouse]

Not in your hall closet any way.....Maybe the MIL's.....Ok, still not a good idea.

Thats a great idea MrGriz thanks!

 

[begreen]

Careful, your MIL might still remember that burning bag of dog poop left on the front steps from a year ago. ;-)

 

[kevinmoelk]

Poop? Did someone mention burning poop?

 

[colsmith]

About a week ago it was on the news in Milwaukee that a house in West Bend (a suburb) had burned down. Cause was specifically stated as fireplace ashes not disposed of properly. Announcer said something like "they thought the ashes were cooled, but they were not" so perhaps it WAS a case of hot ashes in a paper bag. Brief shot of totally destroyed smoldering house ruins. Must not happen too often, though, or my insurance would have gone up more when we had the woodstove put in (went up about $20/year.)

We just had our tenant around the corner install an old woodstove in an unattached shed without our prior approval. Told him he needed to get a building permit. Don't know if he failed the inspection, or just knew he would so didn't apply, but he grudgingly removed it after we delivered a stern letter. It was sitting on top of piled concrete blocks sitting on a sand floor over who knows what. No mortar or anything like that, just a couple blocks sitting on each other. Talk about unstable and dangerous. Mostly held in place by the stovepipe! It was also definitely too close to the wall. Thank goodness I happened to walk over on a day they were fixing up the shed, and some of his friends I had met before showed it off to me. They also help him split wood, so maybe I should recruit them to be my friends, too.