Whenever people tell myself and others about having a traditional wood burning fireplace I suppose that it sounds amazing… Of course, it’s a delight to rest in front of a roaring flame plus love the ambient heat that it produces, something about the lighting plus the decoration of the fireplace will also add something joyful to your life. However, people entirely need to be aware of how dangerous a wood-burning fireplace can be even if you are a grown adult. This was something I found out the difficult way several years ago when I was living in an lake house by myself. One night I nearly burned the place to the ground thanks to a small dose of carelessness. All of us had the fireplace roaring all night as our friends plus I lounged around the bedroom with wine. Towards the end of the night, everybody started to head back lake house in the cold Winter time temperatures. I also got ready for bed plus started to retire when I realized that I had forgotten to deliver our dog more water. I wandered back into the bedroom plus put some ice cold water into a modern bowl, but just then, I heard a odd sound. I turned our head in time to see a coal bouncing out of the fireplace plus onto our carpet. Immediately, the carpeting ignited. I ran over plus stomped out the fire before I entirely heated the place up. If I hadn’t been awake to put out the alternate heating source, I don’t suppose what would have happened. And that is the night that I developed a phobia of wood burning fireplaces.