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Originally Posted by katiesue
Memo to self- open flu then light fire.
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heh- I did that once/ I had a fireplace in my apartment. I took all, and I mean ALL- the dead branches off our dead Christmas tree and stuffed them in the hearth- and lit it.
Trouble is- the flue was closed. It caught like crazy and flames started licking up the wall. I had a shelf above the fireplace acting as a mantle- I grabbed all the stuff off it and tore the shelf from the wall- THEN I grabbed the handle for the flue- and of course burned myself in the process.
Billows of black smoke coming from my apartment- and no one called the fire dept.
Luckily there were so many layers of paint on the wall I was able to scrub off the black soot-
I was such a dork!