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Post by Bonny on Aug 3, 2015 17:39:49 GMT -5
Came home from a shopping trip, greeted the carpenters who are working on putting some metal fencing on our new deck stairs. Sparks from the cutting wheel lit the redwood gorilla hair mulch on fire.
We caught it early and put it out; only about 50 sq.ft. burned but it's made us rethink having a fire pit in the area. |
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Post by Jaguar on Aug 3, 2015 17:42:53 GMT -5
Oh Bonny please do not scare me like that ! |
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Post by Bonny on Aug 3, 2015 17:48:49 GMT -5
We were lucky that I just happened to be there and there were three of us to put it out.
We are dry, dry, dry today. There are also stacks of lumber sitting on the patio. It definitely could have gotten bad quickly.
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Post by Bonny on Aug 3, 2015 19:16:26 GMT -5
To quote MrSroo, professional when it comes to this subject "Fire bad...until it spreads to the house then I get have fun" I take it that he's a professional fire fighter? |
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Post by Deleted on Aug 3, 2015 19:24:50 GMT -5
Super glad you had a good outcome on this. Firepits scare me even with the so-called spark arrestors on them.
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Post by Bonny on Aug 3, 2015 19:27:18 GMT -5
How did you guess  I am happy your excitement was contained to the mulch. Three plants also got burned/singed. I think two will recover not sure about the third one.
Six week landscaping project was finished yesterday. I guess now it's broken in. 
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Post by busymom on Aug 3, 2015 19:42:13 GMT -5
Oh carp! So glad nothing else was damaged.
I wanted a wooden fence for years, until I witnessed a fire that hit a wooden fence, & it worked like a fuse bringing the fire up to a house, & setting it on fire.  I settled for a chain link fence after that... |
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Post by Bonny on Aug 3, 2015 20:27:30 GMT -5
Oh carp! So glad nothing else was damaged.
I wanted a wooden fence for years, until I witnessed a fire that hit a wooden fence, & it worked like a fuse bringing the fire up to a house, & setting it on fire. I settled for a chain link fence after that... No fences at this house but there's probably 1,000 sq.ft. of wood decking.  Just really glad it didn't turn out worse. |
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