Last night about 9:30 when I got done loading the OWB I stepped inside the house to take off my coveralls and my Fire pager went off. Dispatch said it was a trailer fire. I couldn't quite pinpoint the address (around here that means I wasn't sure who's place it was) so I called a friend on the way that lives in that area. When I called him he said he was standing there watching it burn and that he is the one that called it in. He then says that Bill is still in the trailer according to his sister who lives across the road. This totally changes things. My friend said that the whole thing is pretty well ingulfed in flames so I told him to stay the hell out of there knowing if someone is still in there it is to late and not worth risking it. By the time we got there the fire had gone completely thought the place. The cause has not been confirmed but it is pretty well known that the fire started by the wood stove from how everything ended up. Unfortunately the man who lived there was infact in there and had been overcome from the smoke and fire. It is thought that he was sleeping in a chair. Here's where the forum comes in. As we were working on the outside trying to get the flames out. There sat the very green rounds of wood and his splitting maul. From the looks of his wood storage area he was out of wood and evidently started to burn the green wood as he split it because he had no stock of dry wood anywhere else.
Sorry for the long post but it scares the hell out of me to think of people doing this and I wanted to bring it to your attention. If all else fails either pay for some dry wood or pay the gas man. It's not worth your or your families life to get around it by burning the green stuff.
Sorry for the long post but it scares the hell out of me to think of people doing this and I wanted to bring it to your attention. If all else fails either pay for some dry wood or pay the gas man. It's not worth your or your families life to get around it by burning the green stuff.
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