We’ve had some fun in the past pointing out the witless wonders who keep us in business by dumping their fireplace ashes into a plastic trash can that is usually inside the garage. (Morning Lineup HERE.) This affliction is not restricted to any geographic area in particular. Nor is it always a wintertime event, sometimes substituting summer’s charcoal briquettes for the fireplace timbers (see HERE, scroll down).
Needless to say, there are other sources of latent flame that can be used, it’s just a matter of waiting to see what they come up with next. One of our readers, Frank B. sent along an item (HERE) about a fellow in Washington State who did just that.
This man, who apparently hasn’t grasped the relationship between fire and paper yet, wrapped up the clinkers and kindles from his pellet stove in some newspaper before setting them down on his back porch.
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Columbian/Kaufman photo
Fast forward a couple of hours and we hear the county fire inspector saying that he “doesn’t have a damage estimate, but the house is unlivable.” Golly.
I’m still waiting to hear from somebody who runs a McMansion fire because of one of these:
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Let me know when you get one.
Now we’d better get this equipment checked out. I’m going to start the coffee.
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