Funniest fire story I ever had was the time I had some kids ask if they could have a pile of old bridge planks and railroad ties. All of wood was kreasote(sp?) coated but all was unusable to me so I said "Sure!"

The next day, 2 of them come over and I see that they have black smudges all over them! Turns out they thought the wood was going to make a great bonfire at their party! I guess about 40 or 50 kids went home all smeared in black goo from the fire!

 

About a year ago my friend Kevin and I went behind our houses to a creek to shoot off some fireworks. Well, we only had two things that went up in the air. So we are playing with fireworks and when we get done we walk down the trail back to my house and we see smoke. Somehow the woods are on fire. And this is like October when leaves are down and everything is really dry. So this thing is blazing. We were panicking. It was already about 20 ft in diameter (like a circle). So I start yelling, stomp on the fire and kick the flames in. OMG, my hair on my legs were gone. We finally got it out realizing afterwards that we could have burned down the whole neighborhood. So scary.

Bryan #50

 

We have 40 acres of land and parts of it are an old Christmas tree farm. We wanted to clear the trees out since they were well beyond being decent Christmas trees so we had a contract rip them out and put them into a couple piles. Fire dept. wanted us to wait till winter to burn, so in January we lit them up. HUGE inferno. Roaring flames about 50 feet in the air and so hot we were just wearing t-shirts in 20 degree weather. Snow puddled around the pile and we had a pretty good breeze behind us from the air being sucked into the fire. I was 'sunburned' from the heat for days. But the land is almost cleared now, got another burn to do this upcoming winter.

 

Women will never understand that men need only two things besides sex...Fire and explosives.

 

Sounds about right to me

 

Don't forget Ford Trucks!

 

And FOOD.
In order
Explosives
"it"
Fords
Food


















Oh and alcohol

 

Potentially fatal, but still funny as heck. At a parking lot gathering of car guys, at night, in the dead of winter, there was a 55 gallon drum that someone had filled with busted up pallets and lit on fire. One of the guys, a thoroughbred idiot, threw his girlfriend's can of hair mousse into the barrel. (Don't ask why she had the stuff out, in a parking lot, in 10 degree weather.) We all moved back waiting for the thing to explode. Instead, it shot out like a bottle rocket with out the stick. Hissing and shooting a 5' blue flame, it went crazy all over the place. By coincidence, it started to chase this one guy, unfortunately not the idiot, and whatever direction he went, the flaming banshee seemed to follow. We were all laughing hysterically. He was in an all out sprint, but looking back to see where the can was . . . and ran smack into a light pole. Knocked himself out cold.

 

we went camping and mad a7 foot bonfire and looking back its not the best idea because we were gone (intoxicated) when the thing decided to fall. we all jumped about 5 feet straight up.

another time we got bored and went to big lots and bout 3 bottles of rubbing alcohol and made a 50 ft line down the alley then lit it. interesting site and especially for any cars that were coming along at the time. Ohh and it was about 9 or ten at nite. the rest we just made designs and spelled out our name and lit it.

 

I was out camping one time, when my lighter stopped working. Figuring that it wasn't any good anymore, I threw it onto the campfire.

Evidently, an empty lighter is not quite empty. When I heard the explosion, I turned to see this perfect mushroom cloud rising up into the trees.

 

Ohh boy, you had to ask...

OK, a buddy of mine was clearing a lot, roughtly 3 acres. It was all trees. Old growth, underbrush, everything. There was wood everywhere. Well, he came to the conclusion that it would take him a lifetime of weekends and evenings to get it cleared. He is a construction contractor. So, he brings home a dozer, and proceeds to scrape the whole lot, push in all into one BIGGG pile... This thing was about 20 foot high, and 40 foot in diameter.
He then dug a trench around it a few feet deep. He let it sit like that the entire spring, and summer. Late August rolls around, and he calls me up, says he wants to get rid of the pile.

We call everyone we know, he does up a huge BBQ..We also call the local FD and inform them of a controlled burn. And about 20 people spend an hour throwing unlit molitov cocktails onto the pile, and a few walking around the base of it with 5 gallon gas cans, soaking the pile.

We let that sit for about, hmm, a second... Then, fired a couple road flares into the pile. Holy heat!!! It got so hot, that people's cars parked on the street (200 yards away) had discolored paint the next day. Anything within 100 yards melted immediately, and no one would stand within 300 yards of the pile. The local FD sent a truck anyway, and when asked why, they answered "We were told about a controlled burn, not a controlled forest fire!"

It burned for over two weeks. He went out, turned it over with the dozer once he thought it was out. It kept burning for 2 more weeks. Turned again, 2 more weeks.

 

Now that's a fire, wow. I don't have anything to compete with that. Our weekly bon fires at work are pretty big.

 

When I was 19, a bunch of friends and I went camping. We had all kinds of alcohol including real corn mash! Anyway, we were way past drunk when my friend Mike got up, went over to his truck, grabbed something and walked to the fire and threw it in. I looked at him, My friend Brian asked what it was, and Mike said .22 shells. It was *ssholes and elbows to get the hell out of there. After a few seconds, the first one went off and hit my truck. It occured to me to ask him how many he threw in and he told me, "I don't know". It turned out to be about 20, and we stood behind trees for the rest of the night, it sobered us up too.

 

All of my fire stories come from my days in the fire department. Most of em are kinda scary, not realy anything most folks want to hear about.

 

Give me till after Halloween and I'll see if I can top some of these, I'm probly gonna get it from forestry for it but I have a huge fire planned (pretty much a logging truck load of dry wood!) I'll let ya'll know how it goes over, reading these just gives me ideas.