Back Yard Disaster!!!!!!!Call the FD!

[leanza]

Just curious brothers....Anybody ever set their backyard on fire while they were trying to BBQ?

 

[Westexbbq]

Not yet,
(old Boy Scout mod.)
but,
had a new neighbor freak out once over the startup of a couple of chimneys of charcoal; almost called the FD 'til folks next door clued them in.

 

[BBQchef33]

I lit a pile of leaves up while firing up the charcoal chimney.. http://www.bbq-brethren.com/forum/showthread.php?p=113091&highlight=leaves+fire#post113091

 

[Norcoredneck]

Was at an apartment of a friend and a kid loaded burgers on a public gasser. We were in balcony and between chugs my buddy says keep an eye on the grill. The dad comes back to check on burgers, fire went out so he hit igniter. Boom! burgers everywhere big fire. Buddy chuckles and says his girlfriend wouldn't have eaten her steak the other night if she had known igt hit the ground!

 

[BBQ Grail]

I once was camping with my family and friends and was testing out a new backpack stove that used white gas. I was grilling up some fish at the campsite and decided to give the stove a try heating up a can of green beans.

I spilled a little (ok a lot) gas on the wooden picnic table. When I lit the stove it lit a small section of the table on fire. Since I was a good Boy Scout Scoutmaster at the time I had a bucket of dirt and a bucket of water handy. Not wanting to throw dirt all over the place I used the water.

The water spread the gas all over the rest of the table and the ground around it. There is still a table with burn marks 15 years later at Mackerricker State Park in California.

 

[Single Fin Smoker]

Last month. It sucked. Nothing like an inferno or anything like that, but one thing led to another and the next thing you know theres a pretty big problem on your hands. My house is kinda like a town home. We all have backyards but my particular backyard is one whole wooden deck. I hate it, but too lazy and cheap to replace it. Anyways, I have a particular saftey protocol, that wasn't followed due to a host of reasons. I paid the price for it.

Fin was ready to quit. Never to smoke again and say bye to ya'll. Mrs. Fin(and my bro-inlaw) would have none of it. Accordingly, we repaired the deck, set up a concrete tile area for all my cookers, and replaced the burned up ecb and charbroil with a new barbie chef & Mr. Meat smoker(which I had stored in my garage).

I was pretty messed up after the whole ordeal. Coulda farked everything up. I would have gladly never smoked again so as to never burn down my whole house. Mrs. fin calmly reminded me how important it is that my q brings our familys together. Damn I married good...

 

[Puppyboy]

The guy at a BBQ joint here in town had a fire in his cooker just about a month ago. It's a half commercial unit and it's drain was clogged. The build up of drippins caught fire and torched about a 100# of butts, briskets, & chicken.

 

[BBQ_MAFIA]

Last week I had a greased fire that was contained in the Lang.
It would have been a big problem if something out side the pit caught fire as the housed where I live are very close together.

 

[Porkmeister]

A few weeks back I'm sitting in the house and look out the window and see a lot of smoke. Thinking to myself, hey, that's a lot of smoke. Then I walk outside and see my deck on fire! I had dumped a load of coals on the ground after tripping on the starter. One must have ended up under the deck and away she went.

 

[CajunSmoker]

At our 1st and only comp one of my sons tripped over a chimney full of coals and set a small area of grass on fire. We poured a few gallons of water on it and put everything out, but he got a pretty nasty burn on his leg.

 

[Ron_L]

I haven't burned the yard yet, but i did have the wind knock a charcoal bag onto a lit chimney a few weeks back. I have a red spot on the deck from the red charcoal bag burning :roll:

Someone (names have been withheld to protect the guilty) started a grease fire in Parrothead's BYC at the fall bash last year while cooking a prime rib. No name, however... :-D

 

[Bigmista]

Hmmm...who cooks prime rib at a bash?

 

[Arlin_MacRae]

I put some coals on top of a large, cold ash pile in a large plastic tub once and in the morning found a nice hole burnt through my deck. Replaced two short boards and all was well. Does that count?

 

[Bill-Chicago]

I can't find the post where I started a fire in the garden on Super Bowl Sunday by pouring ashes on the snow over the garden, which had a layer of hay under the snow leftover from a halloween bale.

Ashes melted the snow and some coals then lit the hay.

Unfortunately, the farking Raiders lost

 

[Bentley]

BigMista almost burnt my sisters place down, does that count!

 

[Rusty_Barton]

I've never burnt my backyard down, but when I first started grilling, my wife would have to yell over the fence to the neighbors, "Ignore the smoke, it's ok, he's just cooking!" :mrgreen: