crotchclimber
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I was gone on vacation at the time but during a windstorm an ember from the chimney lit my over two cords of firewood on fire. My roommate noticed it when he got up in the morning and seeing a garden hose wasn't going to put it out called 911. Winds were over 50mph, with the second highest gust ever recorded nearby at 90mph. In the few minutes before the fire department got here, the large cottonwood downwind with a dead cavity caught on fire. They got it extinguished with foam and kept it from spreading further, but the tree's more of a hazard now and I lost about 3/4 of my wood. What's left is charred. We'll see how it burns once it dries out completely. So much for my prized collection of mostly fruitwood. At least it was free since I work at a tree service and it was only my labor splitting and stacking it. I have another pile of cottonwood that I'm burning now. The house is a rental and the owner claims there's a spark arrestor on the chimney but we doubt that because birds have gotten into the stove multiple times.