Posted on 02/26/2023 1:25:18 PM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
CORNELIUS, Ore. — Cornelius Fire offered a warning of what not to do when trying to melt ice off your gutters.
Firefighters said Saturday they were called out to a house fire that started when someone used a blow torch to de-ice their gutters.
They say the person was trying to prevent gutter damage by melting the ice, but ended up catching their roof on fire.
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Hmmmmmm.....
“Every time I call to report the roof is on fire, they start singing!”
Man, woman, other?
Yes but did he melt the ice?
Florida or Georgia Man that moved north. Just sayin’.
Some of those old houses had cork insulation in the walls. Is very hard to put out.
First time I heard of Pulsefire.
Person?
Shingles and open flame do not get along well together. It’s a bit like throwing petroleum products into a fire pit. Actually, it’s not just a bit like that, it is exactly like that.
This type of ignorance shows just how bad our educational system has become.
About 25 years ago, our neighbor, who had moved here to the south from NY, decided to rid his property of little pine trees that grow by the side of a driveway on rural “self-maintained” acreage.
Anyway, He went down the drive with a drip-torch setting each little combustible pine sapling on fire, never looking behind him. Who knows where he got the idea from? A machete would have worked just as well. By the time he got to the end of his driveway (about 2/10s of a mile), and turned around, the undergrowth in the woods on each side of his driveway were on fire. We weren’t aware until we heard the fire trucks, and then we went outside and saw the smoke. We headed that way through our own woods with potato rakes in hand raking fire-stop paths as we went.
He definitely learned a life lesson about living in the country and the fire-feeding sap of pine trees!
It’s amusing to look back on now, but at the time, I was imaging all our trees and the animals’ habitat burning down and leaving us with nothing but charred land.
After that, he and his wife boarded up the house and moved back to NY. He arrived, sans wife, about five years ago, and is back in residence. No fire yet!
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