[bobbymitch]

Glad to hear that you made it out okay, along with most of your stuff.

Sorry, but I'm out of anything witty to say.

Locally, we had a fire chief lose his house to a very strange fire a couple of years ago. He put out his last cigarette for the night and emptied the ashtray into a metal coffee can. A windy night blew the can over. His still half-lit cigarette had ignited some of the other butts and when the wind knocked the can over, some got caught between his wooden upper deck boards. They ignited the deck and eventually, the flame burned through the hose on the grill's propane tank. The resultant blow torch then caught the wood siding on fire and quickly spread to the end of the house. It took a little time, but eventually, the flames and smoke made it to the interior, which set off the smoke alarms.