[Dane]

: ) (I don't have packing foam glued to my walls, either. I think I'll go out, get some, and glue it all around my kitchen, on my cooking island where my gas cooktop resides...and then blame the first person who cooks something and starts a fire - 'cause, what an idiot!)

Then you and Xena go ahead and hire the band and ask them to use the same pyrotechnics inside your house. You all seem to have no qualms about it.

Just one suggestion, make sure you have a fire extinguisher handy.

[DaughterOfAnIwoJimaVet]

This is the dumbest, weakest thing about your argument - asking people if they would do it in their house. It has nothing to do with this story. Do you have a stage in your house? Do you regularly have bands in to perform? Do you have two hundred people smoking cigarettes in your house? Are you required, by law, to have regular fire code inspections in your house? Have you glued flammable packing foam to the walls?

The question is absurd, and irrelevant to anything in the actual story.

So Ted Nugent (someone I have a lot of respect for, btw) said they should have had a fire extinguisher. Yes, that would have been a good idea. I'll tell you what, though...I've been in a lot of bands that have played in clubs that size, and I've never been in one that brought a fire extinguisher to the gig. I've never been in one that used pyrotechnics, either, but there are a lot of things that generate heat on stage...probably would have been a good idea for us, too, but I guess we figured the club was safe and that the club would have them.

Boy, were we stupid. What were we thinking, working there?

(There was a fire extinguisher near the mixing console, as I understand it, but the fire was out of control so quickly that the club employee who grabbed it decided to exit the club without trying to use it.)