A friendly reminder to KEEP THAT XMAS TREE MOIST!!!

[Rubycon]

Pets chewing on lights cause fires. Watch Christmas Vacation. 🙂

 

[Aquila76]

Originally posted by: Nik

Originally posted by: scarpent
Of course they don't say how they started it.

Christmas lights on the tree get damned hot.

Also, a dog with an impacted anal gland will drag its butt across the carpet, generating static. When said dog starts sniffing the tree for a place to relieve himself, a static discharge can occur, sparking a tree into flames. Or so I've heard.

 

[Snapster]

Damn that was a dry ass tree :Q Chip pan fires are just as freaky as well.

 

[moshquerade]

spontaneous combustion ftw!

 

[Kelemvor]

Most (if not all) Christmas Trees are now treated with flame retardents and such. I know someone who tried to burn his tree in the fireplace after the holidays and he could not get it to light up at all (fire was already going with normal wood...). Finally after he stuffed the FP full it went up and went up big.

But it's hard for the tree to accidentally start on fire unless you're pretty incompetant and put candles on the tree or something.

 

[DurocShark]

Originally posted by: FrankyJunior
Most (if not all) Christmas Trees are now treated with flame retardents and such. I know someone who tried to burn his tree in the fireplace after the holidays and he could not get it to light up at all (fire was already going with normal wood...). Finally after he stuffed the FP full it went up and went up big.

But it's hard for the tree to accidentally start on fire unless you're pretty incompetant and put candles on the tree or something.

Not anywhere near all.

However, I buy retardant spray every year for my tree. Put the tree on the patio and soak it with retardant. Let it dry a few hours THEN bring it inside.

I could put a propane torch to the thing and it wouldn't burn. 😉

 

[Pepsi90919]

Originally posted by: sharkeeper
Yeah I posted this last year.

The important thing is the chronometer at the bottom. A dry tree really does go up that fast like a guncotton fuse. Pretty scary to have something like that in your house for shore.

In just fifteen seconds, a violent convection wind sets the stage swirling superheated air about the room charring and igniting furniture and everything in its path. Most plastics will smoke and the smoke is drawn closer to the fire and flashes back to the bubbling resin spreading quickly. It takes on a life of its own and will kill fast.

Be safe for the holidays!

Cheers!

i wish i were smart enough to use a word like 'chronometer'

 

[marvdmartian]

Yeah, it amazes me that so many people annually put an object in their house that, without proper care, can become not only one of the most combustible items imaginable, but burns really dirty (lots of creosote, which thickens the smoke a lot). Not to mention the fact that you can put a real tree in your house one year, and still find pine needles in your carpet 5 years later! :shocked:

Of course, the tree in the video still looks better than the one they had at the RI government house!! Man, it was amazing just how quickly the flame retardant they put on that tree dried it up!! Here's the story, in case you missed it. 😀