Proper install is so important

[struggle]

(broken link removed to http://siouxcityjournal.com/ap/state/article_124cf7e5-ab72-500c-a719-70136b719c89.html)

Since this is not in my area I am only assuming an improper install.

So when people here are busting peoples chops on this site for being sticklers to a proper install this is way.

Tragic no matter what caused but they say the stove is the reason.

 

[Backwoods Savage]

Tragic for sure. However, the article really does not say much of any value. Also, fire departments also tend to always blame a wood stove if a house burns down. That may or may not be true.

 

[BrotherBart]

No question on this one. Been waiting since the third for the investigation results. Two fine young people perished in this one in Frostburg, Maryland because the pipe set the building on fire and they couldn't get out. And yes, it was a box stove but the flue pipe through the wall didn't care what kind of stove it was attached to.

http://times-news.com/local/x1199047717/Overheated-flue-pipe-determined-cause-of-fatal-fire

 

[firefighterjake]

One of my pet peeves . . . so often it seems as though the investigators can figure out the rough location of the fire and in fact it may have been near the woodstove . . . but they fail (and often cannot due to the damage) say that the fire was caused by the woodstove . . . but it was installed too close to a wall, had improper floor protection, someone placed their chainsaw full of gas too close to the stove (actually happened), someone left hot ashes on the wooden floor in a plastic pail, etc.