Haven't done it with a wood burner yet, but seen it happen with a coal burner one time. Was working with the Boy Scouts out at camp many years back, and the particular cabin we had that weekend had both a fireplace and a small top load coal stove. We always kept a bucket of coal on hand just in case. Well one night we were about out of firewood, so I decided to walk up to maintainence and get a wheelbarrow full to hold us over till morning. As I was walking back up to the cabin, I noticed a lot of black smoke rolling around the roof, and sparks flying out of the coal burner chimney. Apparently, the Scoutmaster had never used a coal burner before. He started it up, then proceeded to dump the entire 5 gallon bucket of coal in (which pretty much filled the stove to the very top), left all the dampers wide open and went back to bed. I come flying into the cabin to see 6' of stovepipe cherry red, top of the stove even brighter, and a fair haze to the air. Not to mention almost 90 degrees inside. I got everyone outside, choked the burner down as much as I could, called the ranger in with a water truck just in case. Got lucky in as much as the cabin didn't catch, although we did have to replace the stove pipe, which had actually warped and buckled from the heat. Was the last time I ever left those guys in charge of the fire.