Well not really....I shut it down pretty good today. I was called to a chimney fire at a house I know well due to other issues. I go there and the FD is shoveling loads of wet, gummy tarlike soot out of the flue. Whole house filled with smoke, no structural damage. I talk to the owner whos father recently passed at approx. 90 years of age. Her KIA boyfriend blurted out, "This is what happens when people think they can burn Pine in a fireplace!" The level of stupidity was hard to bear. I explained to him that it wasn't Pine that caused this fire, it was the lack of cleaning the chimney flue for the last 40 years (which he knew and burned anyways, saying the 1 day snow event happened to be on the day he was planning on cleaning it). As well as burning unseasoned wood. Out west all they burn is Pine and other softwoods I explained to him. His mouth fell open, "Yeah, but it has to be the right air mixture!" Me and the commanding officer just looked at each other smiling under our masks. Some people just shouldn't burn wood.
The pine did it! If he would've stuck to burning the 2 week seasoned swamp oak it wouldn't have gone kaplooey! But nooooo, he just HAD to light up that evil pine with the nitroglycerin sap within it and now he's paying the price!!!!
Be a good soul and bottle up some of that correct Colorado air for the guy would ya. PS, wanna go in on a get rich scheme?
The guy was such a tool. Trying to sound smart in front of the girlfriend. I told him you really should only be burning 3 year wood. He asked why, I said cause Dennis said so.
