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Dear Flipped,
My house came with one of those decorative wall cutouts ? you know, one of the rectangular ones with a patch of brick on the floor around it and a mantle above it. I thought it was cute and never paid it too much mind. But imagine my surprise to come home today and discover that someone had set a fire inside of, and then just left it there! Obviously I am beyond distraught that anyone ? I guess it must have been my wife or one of my kids ? would do something so incredibly irresponsible as start a fire inside the house and then just do nothing about it. But, more pressing than that, I need to figure out how to deal with the fire. So far, it has stay inside the wall cutout. It actually seems like the top of the cutout is hollow and the air flow is pulling it upwards, so that?s good. But what if it spreads"
Also, what if it melts all these bags of marshmallows that somebody bought and left lying around" That would be a real mess.
Any advice is appreciated,
A Reader
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Dear Reader,
Fire is dangerous, so you did the right thing here by acting ...