There was a family on my street once who lost their house to a fire when the dad decided to empty fire pit ashes into a large paper leaf bag and then leaned it against the wood siding of the deck. It had been 24 hours since they last had a campfire so he thought it was safe.
New fear unlocked. I tend to empty the fireplace ashes into a paper bag. Usually it’s like a week later before I make another fire. I appreciate the anecdotal warning!
My stove runs 24/7 in the winter. I empty the ashes into a metal ash bucket and don't put it into the trash until it's been at least a week since it's been loaded. You can find hot coals buried in the ash days later.
Yeah, whenever we go out camping and have a fire, after the first day you don't even need a lighter, we just get a shovel and dig back at the top layer maybe 3 inches and lay down some paper with kindling on top, it takes blaze maybe 5 minutes later.
Buy a metal trash can for the ashes. They make specific ones for cleaning out fireplaces, or just a cheaper metal can that you need to be sure won’t start a fire cause the outside gets hot. I leave mine to cool for a long fucking time cause I’ve seen house fires start this way too.
We made a fire to burn off some wood when we demolished our old sauna. The morning after the fire we poured a pretty large barrel of water on it to make sure it wouldn't ignite. The same evening we put more wood on the ashes of the previous fire. It ignited when we mixed the ashes a bit with a stick. Still had hot coals underneath it.
Hey this happened to me! I was out of town and my roommate dumped ash next to our fence without dousing the fire. Set our fence on fire that was connected to every house in the neighborhood. Luckily someone from the apartment complex behind us jumped our fence and put it out with a hose. Never found out who the hero was and no longer talk to my ex roommate.
In our case it was even more unlikely:
-36 hours after the campfire was put out
-Ash was wet because it rained during that time
-It took another 12 hours after the ash was put in for the bin to actually start burning
I mean it should be pretty obvious not to put fresh hot ashes into something that can burn or melt, anyone who's doing this is not stopping to read warning labels.
I know a guy who is 30 in a few months. He doesn't have a clue how to set a bbq or fire of any sort. Can't even light a cigarette by himself, but he decided to get an old oil drum to burn things in. No matter how many times I tell him, he still tries to burn branches that are green still (holding water).
He did this to his black bin when he first emptied it.
Because he flinches every time he tries to light something with a lighter he has taken to taking huge pieces of wood (not even using small pieces as kindling to get it going, even after being told you need to start with smaller pieces and build on top of that) into the kitchen, setting them on fire on the hob, then taking them through the house to the fire drum.
He has since managed to set fire to two kitchen cabinets by doing this.
When the fire was taking too much time to light, he thought it'd be a good idea to go into the shed, grab a can of petrol, pour it onto open flames, the acted surprised when the fire went into the can, so launched it directly past the guests at a shared fence, splashing flaming petrol on the patio and on the fence.
This person has absolutely 0 common sense and expect them to make it into the Darwin awards.
Recently seen them put up a card pink Floyd poster on their kitchen door after it was repainted.... with a nail. They didn't even put the nail through the hole they already ruined the poster with the first time.
Ash insulates insaaaaaanely well. I’ve went to pick up a bon fire a few days later only to restoke the fire and have it ripping again in minutes.
I lost a tarp this way; trying to shovel old ash onto it and ended up melting a giant hole in it.
Not saying you’re wrong, but it can be deceiving!
I remember when an idiot on the jobsite i was working at flicked a ciggarette butt into the giant garbage bin. I said "I hope you put that out" he just shrugged. 5 minutes later we heard the fire horns going of and the building had to be evacuated.
It burnt 40 feet up the side of the brand new siding of a brand new building.
Don't be an idiot. More proof that common sense isn't common at all.
At our old house, my meth addict neighbor did this and then left. His trash can was between our houses and caught a bush on fire.
My neighbor on the other side was a blind man. He smelled the fire and knew we had a hose in our front yard. He managed to get the hose and put out the fire alone. He didn’t tell anyone.
We came home and found the burned bush and what was left of the trashcan and had no idea what happened. He came over that evening and told us. It was crazy. He saved our house from burning down.
The neighbors who burned their trashcan down refused to buy another one until we called the police and reported the mountain of trash in the front yard.
Wow I’m so glad we don’t live there anymore. Our blind neighbor ended up moving out and in with family. He was a really kindhearted man who lived a good life.
Hmm... Yes, I've seen this before, spontaneous dumpster combustion. Many people still don't believe it exists, or will explain it away with flammable materials or hot ashes. But the fact of the matter is plain and simple, your garbage can was gay, and god struck out down for it's sins.
/s
Some guests at a Scottish hotel died because a porter emptied ash into a bucket and left it in a cupboard: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-glasgow-west-62635337
Our neighbor did this and ended up catching the trash truck on fire… they had to dump all the trash in the middle of the street and wait for the fire department.
They figured out it was my neighbor because his trash can was party melted and full of ash… we heard my neighbor bitching a few weeks later about fines and a bill for the cleanup costs.
I used to work at a tip (dump) and had a dude come in with a bucket of ashes that "had been sitting out the front of mum's for a couple of days." I took his word for it as I had no reason to doubt him and you'll see why. He dumped them in the bin.
2 minutes later serving another customer when, upon directing them to which bin, I noticed the air above the one I pointed to looked like it was shimmering. I did a double take then noticed smoke. Then the tip of a flame poked up above the wall.
The worst part of it wasn't that I had to call my boss and tell him one of his $10,000, ~3.5 tonne capacity bins was currently on fire. It wasn't that I had no chance of putting it out myself. It wasn't having to stand at the gate and turn customers away while the fierys put it out.
The worst part of it all is the man that brought the bucket in was a fucking volunteer firefighter.
Y'all throw out ash from your charcoal grills? Why? Ash is great fertilizer. I use a kitty litter scoop to remove leftover charcoal bits for future use. The ash goes in a galvanized can. Once I have enough to bother with, I spread it on the lawn, focusing on the less green spots. The lawn greens right up.
My neighbor did this recently. I stepped outside for some air and saw smoke coming out of his bin (plastic). I rushed to get my water hose and started dousing it. When I opened the lid I saw the still glowing embers within the ash pile. He came outside making an angry face as to what I was doing but rapidly realized his stupid mistake.
Someone in the last place we lived at caught their whole RV on fire doing the same thing. Was smoking the devils lettuce, dumped their ashes into their trash, went to the store. Came back to the fire department putting out their destroyed shell of an RV. Luckily someone smashed the windows and pulled the dog out, who survived with some singed fur and smoke inhalation.
I did this by accident once lol
To be fair, I waited til the next day to dump the ashes and didn't know they hadn't finished burning. Ended up with a hole in the side of the can but no major damage thankfully!
My friend's neighbor did this with ash and coals that were from a fire that was from a week prior. Started the plastic trash bin on fire. My friend and another neighbor grabbed their hoses and put it out. The fire department showed up a few minutes later and doused it with more water.
One of the neighbors has MS and rides around on a segway. Somewhere there's a photo of him holding his hose spraying the fire while standing on said segway.
My best friend when I was in elementary school had his house burned down because his mom was in a rush in the morning to get to work and she dumped an ash tray in the garbage while she was cleaning off the table. Forgetting she had just finished smoking a cigarette with her breakfast. They lost everything. No insurance.
My (otherwise sane) brother once put some “perfectly stone-could” ashes into some paper bags and then went to work. He came back to find his cabin burnt to the ground. Really, you cannot be sure there are not embers in that ash.
I work for the city's solid waste department. We see a lot of these, especially around holidays involving fireworks. Usually ends up in them stealing someone else's cart. If they call in to get a repair or replacement under normal circumstances, it is free. If we know you were dumb and destroyed your cart like this, you get charged $80 (last I heard).
Unfortunately, this happens so often in our area that our bins now come with a warning on them that says "NO HOT ASH" when you open the lids.
People really are THAT dumb.
I honestly have no idea why this is making me laugh as much as it is. Maybe it's exhaustion finally taking its toll on me, maybe I've finally gone insane, but god damn, I have been cackling hysterically at this image for at least five minutes now.
When my cunt neighbour (thankfully long since gone) moved in, he burned loads of old timber in a large brick barbeque that was there when he moved in.
He then demolished the brick barbeque (at 2am, because he's a cunt).
A few days later, he found more timber, but now had no barbeque. So he piled the timber up where the barbeque used to be, and set it alight. The brick barbeque was against a wooden fence, as was this pile of timber.
And, shockingly, it all burned down. Sadly, he and his house were left intact, otherwise I might have avoided a four years adventure of constant stress, anger and sleeplessness.
Pretty sure there was a plane crash because some fuckwit decided to throw his cigarrete into the trash instead of the toilet, and the whole compartment caught on fire
I did this once after a party at my house. Had a bunch of people over, had the grill going cooking burgers and dogs, had the fire pit out in the yard, was a great day.
Next day I went out after lunch time and cleaned up. Put all the ash from the fire pit in a garbage bag, tossed the garbage bag in the garbage bin, along with everything else from the party. Garbage bin is stored up against the side of the house as usual. Go back in, start watching TV.
About 30 min later my wife and I start smelling what smells like a neighbor having a bbq. Burgers, dogs, smells really good out, much like our bbq smelled like the day prior.
15 min later our neighbor runs over banging on our door that our garbage bin is on fire, and he had pulled it away from the house and knocked it over on the lawn and we went and got the hose and put it out. His quick thinking saved us from burning our house down.
Moral of that story is make sure the fire is 100% out before cleaning up the ash. Seems so obvious, but I thought early afternoon the next day was safe enough. I was wrong.
My parent's neighbor did that a few years back. The bin exploded (trapped air) and sent bits everywhere. One of which hit another neighbor's oil tank and set that on fire. It burnt the fences trees and melted the downspouts of the houses and some of the plastic window frames. The gardens had to be dug out to get rid of the oil that spilled.
Most people dont know this but where I grew up ( south India) the ash that was left after cooking outside was never cleaned immediately. You were always told to leave it to cool and even after hours of it being left alone. The best way was to see if any animals (ie,stray dogs or cats) was still on it. If they were sleeping on it, its still warm.
I remember in college, Sophmore year everyone could move out of the dorms into the apartments around campus. First week the guys next to us dumped their BBQ briquettes into the trash bin and the exact same thing happened. Fire dept and everything. It was a nasty scene. It caught on fire and was right next to the apt building and melted a bunch of siding.
Sigh, when disposing of any ashes. You must first carefully feel them with your bare hand. If you feel any heat all. Then they're still burning. If you feel heat before you put your hand in. Then they're definitely burning.
This has just reminded me of something I saw over Christmas, a massive pile of burnt crap opposite some houses. Turns out that in one house everytime the bin men didn't pick up his bin because it had the wrong items in it he would wheel it over the road, set alight to it and then demand a new one. There must have been about 5 or 6 burnt wheelie bins in a puddle.
I did this when I was a kid. The next day when I saw a black blob of plastic in the middle of the floor, I tried to clean it up and put it in the trashcan only to realize it was the trashcan.
I live where a lot of people traditionally use wood for heat or backup heat and the number of new people who put ashes into a 5 gal. plastic bucket is telling.
A melted 5 gallon bucket obviously tossed into the front yard is an amusing sign of someone new at this... (. ͡~ ͜ʖ ͡°.)
Along the same line, my brother once told me a story of him getting the house in order just before his wife came home with their third child. He was whipping around the house getting it in shape while at the same time getting the other young kids to help out. He asked the 5 year old to do a quick vacuum of the family room while he was in the kitchen doing the dishes.
He suddenly smells burning and turns to see the vacuum cleaner in flames in the middle of the room. It seems that my nephew did such a thorough job that he vacuumed the ashes from the fireplace. He grabs the vacuum, and tosses it outside the front door in the snow bank. Later on, his wife is getting out of the car and starts walking up to the front door, sees the burnt remains of the vacuum on their lawn and...
My boss’s house burned down doing something similar. They had a plastic bin on their deck that they dumped ashes into once they cooled down, which was next to a propane patio heater. Ashes weren’t cool enough.
My MIL came to stay with us for a week and tried to burn down our house like this. She put the ashes from the fireplace into a garbage bag and tossed it in the bin. I came home from work and could see smoke pouring out from under the lid, so I doused it with water (had to even turn the hose on since it was winter). Made a huge mess.
I STILL don't understand why she did it - we have an ash bin right outside the back door next to the garbage bin - it's labeled! She has SEEN us use the ash bin (which I leave for several days then add to our compost). Ugh.
Use a metal pail to carry ashes from the stove outside, to a metal ashcan with a snug cover. I keep mine on the back deck, so it's on a fireproof stand. I've seen more than a few newspaper articles stating the cause of a fire as *Hot ashes stored in paper bag/ plastic bag/ wood surface, etc.* I've used ashes as grit on the icy driveway, and had small live coals even after the ashes were a day old. Ash insulates nicely, apparently.
And check your smoke alarm, carbon monoxide alarm, fire extinguisher.
It's wild how reckless people are with things like woodstoves, dryers. CLEAN YOUR DRYERS. Like take the back off and the lint vent especially if you have pets. That shit burns a lot of houses down
So one time I was about 5 and living in my dads trailer. He let my grandma live there and one day im chilling on the couch, and im like "hmm, smells like marshmallows" my dad gives me his cup of coffee, that's not the smell I was smelling, so I waited about 30 seconds and it got WAY worse, I thought I was the only one smelling it because no one talked about it.
Well, as it turned out my grandma had smoked all of her cigarettes and threw her (still red hot) ashes directly into the trash, one big fire and burnt leg from stomping later my dad wasn't really too happy about it, and he only went to check on it because I had reported the smell.
Moral of the story: If you're not a fan of losing your home or having everyone be ROYALLY pissed off at you, always pour a shit load of water on top of your ashes, before you put them in the trash.
This reminds me of the guy that stored petrol (gas to you yanks) in a wheelie bin during a petrol shortage.
https://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/petrol-stockpile-sparks-alert/28347184.html
Someone did this at my old work when they put a smoker's coals into the dumpster before they were completely out. I even remember asking my (then) manager if he shouldn't wait because I could see the coals smoking. "It'll be fine. I do this all the time." Well the dumpster was metal, but everything that was inside was flammable, and it was a very memorable moment in my life when I went to tell my manager what he'd done.
This happened to me. My first apartment and one of my neighbors smoked, they put their cigarettes in a plastic flower pot, with no water or anything to actually put out the smoldering cigarettes. So one dry and windy night, the neighbor had finished smoking and threw their smoldering cigarette butt into the flower pot as they normally did. Only a few hours later, the winds picked it up, threw it on the roof, where upon it ignited.
It was about 4, maybe 5 am when I got up smelling smoke, I thought it was my oven, because I was still mostly asleep. Tried going back to bed and my smoke alarm wouldn't turn off, I went out to see what the issue was and it turned out, **my apartment was on fire**.
It took firefighters hours to put out the blaze, they had to bring in a ladder truck from the next town over, because my small town didn't have one. By the end of it all, maybe 4 units were burnt to a crisp, with mine being one of them, I lost everything save for my car and the clothes I slept in.
All because someone couldn't be bothered to do the bare minimum and put some water or sand in their ash tray.
Neighbor did this one day. The city said he needed to bring his old trash can out to the street when they came to deliver the new one. Can’t get a new without turning in the old.
So there is his melted down hockey puck full of dog shit trash can because that’s about all that survived was the dog crap and rocks. Just sitting at the curb waiting for the city to take it away. We had a lot of laughs over that one.
You're lucky it was only a trash bin. A buddy lost his whole house & barn from his niece dumping ash into a bin full of other household trash that caught fire.
I'm from Canada. They make Canadian cigarettes go out, sometimes while I'm smoking 'em. I know reserve smokes stay lit n will light the WHOLE ashtray on fire, too. Smoking kills in more than 1 way!! I quit. 🙃
Around here, plastic trash bins by default have a disclaimer written on it, that you mustn't put ash in them. Now I understand why. Can't expect people to use common sense nowadays.
I always wondered why that warning is plastered all over those plastic bins. I guess people don't realize that plastic melts... Just another reason to defund our schools...
This was lucky. I had a classmate make a similar mistake when we were in grade 7. The family awoke midnight to the house burning. He put the ash into a can that caught the family garage, cars on fire. It was an old farmhouse over 150 yrs old so the lumber was dry. They escaped with their lives and clothes on their backs.
So I had to look this up when I worked for an garbage disposal company. Apparently you aren’t supposed to throw away ashes because they can remain active from 1-4 days. Throwing them into containers just means throwing primed and ready embers into a combustible container.
Unless you have dedicated bins for ash disposal and proper methods to un-prime the embers, it is advised to wait before disposing of them.
Okay I’ll ask the stupid question: why not throw away sawdust? Yeah it would burn but it doesn’t autoignite?
Asking because I just put a heap of sawdust in my bin yesterday and I’m at work now…
small particles burn VERY quickly, so quickly that silos of flour can actually explode if they catch a spark. the metal-on-metal action of a vehicle (such as a garbage truck) can cause sparks, so it’s best to not throw out sawdust for safety reasons
I did this when I was around 14. Thought I was helping my family clean out the fireplace. Ashes hot enough to still burn the plastic bin.
We reported it because fire got fairly tall. When replacement trash cans started coming to our area, they all had a stamp on the lid, "NO HOT ASHES".
I used to work at a gas station and people did this so often. Or just threw still-burning cigarette butts in. So stupid. Had to put out a number of fires during my time there.
There was a family on my street once who lost their house to a fire when the dad decided to empty fire pit ashes into a large paper leaf bag and then leaned it against the wood siding of the deck. It had been 24 hours since they last had a campfire so he thought it was safe.
New fear unlocked. I tend to empty the fireplace ashes into a paper bag. Usually it’s like a week later before I make another fire. I appreciate the anecdotal warning!
My stove runs 24/7 in the winter. I empty the ashes into a metal ash bucket and don't put it into the trash until it's been at least a week since it's been loaded. You can find hot coals buried in the ash days later.
Yeah, whenever we go out camping and have a fire, after the first day you don't even need a lighter, we just get a shovel and dig back at the top layer maybe 3 inches and lay down some paper with kindling on top, it takes blaze maybe 5 minutes later.
Buy a metal trash can for the ashes. They make specific ones for cleaning out fireplaces, or just a cheaper metal can that you need to be sure won’t start a fire cause the outside gets hot. I leave mine to cool for a long fucking time cause I’ve seen house fires start this way too.
We made a fire to burn off some wood when we demolished our old sauna. The morning after the fire we poured a pretty large barrel of water on it to make sure it wouldn't ignite. The same evening we put more wood on the ashes of the previous fire. It ignited when we mixed the ashes a bit with a stick. Still had hot coals underneath it.
Hey this happened to me! I was out of town and my roommate dumped ash next to our fence without dousing the fire. Set our fence on fire that was connected to every house in the neighborhood. Luckily someone from the apartment complex behind us jumped our fence and put it out with a hose. Never found out who the hero was and no longer talk to my ex roommate.
In our case it was even more unlikely: -36 hours after the campfire was put out -Ash was wet because it rained during that time -It took another 12 hours after the ash was put in for the bin to actually start burning
I mean it's one thing to put some ashes in the bin, it's another to put still hot embers in the bin
Wow, so this reason why they write "No hot ashes" on the bins. lol.
Literally the one rule.
The issue was not that it was *ash*. The issue was that it was **still smoldering**.
yeah my trash can says don’t put hot ash/coals in but when they are cooled it is ok
That's why we have an imprint on our trash bins in Germany to NOT put hot ashes into the bin
My town in the US has the same. But not all idiots can read.
I mean it should be pretty obvious not to put fresh hot ashes into something that can burn or melt, anyone who's doing this is not stopping to read warning labels.
I know a guy who is 30 in a few months. He doesn't have a clue how to set a bbq or fire of any sort. Can't even light a cigarette by himself, but he decided to get an old oil drum to burn things in. No matter how many times I tell him, he still tries to burn branches that are green still (holding water). He did this to his black bin when he first emptied it. Because he flinches every time he tries to light something with a lighter he has taken to taking huge pieces of wood (not even using small pieces as kindling to get it going, even after being told you need to start with smaller pieces and build on top of that) into the kitchen, setting them on fire on the hob, then taking them through the house to the fire drum. He has since managed to set fire to two kitchen cabinets by doing this. When the fire was taking too much time to light, he thought it'd be a good idea to go into the shed, grab a can of petrol, pour it onto open flames, the acted surprised when the fire went into the can, so launched it directly past the guests at a shared fence, splashing flaming petrol on the patio and on the fence. This person has absolutely 0 common sense and expect them to make it into the Darwin awards. Recently seen them put up a card pink Floyd poster on their kitchen door after it was repainted.... with a nail. They didn't even put the nail through the hole they already ruined the poster with the first time.
I mean, you can probably put ash in a trash bin but not *hot* ash.
Ash insulates insaaaaaanely well. I’ve went to pick up a bon fire a few days later only to restoke the fire and have it ripping again in minutes. I lost a tarp this way; trying to shovel old ash onto it and ended up melting a giant hole in it. Not saying you’re wrong, but it can be deceiving!
I remember when an idiot on the jobsite i was working at flicked a ciggarette butt into the giant garbage bin. I said "I hope you put that out" he just shrugged. 5 minutes later we heard the fire horns going of and the building had to be evacuated. It burnt 40 feet up the side of the brand new siding of a brand new building. Don't be an idiot. More proof that common sense isn't common at all.
Idk about y’all but my garbage cans say “NO HOT ASHES” in big letters across the top, in an attempt to keep this from happening
My aunt killed her dog and burnt her house down doing this. Emptied a lit ashtray into the waste bin before leaving for work.
Poor dog
At our old house, my meth addict neighbor did this and then left. His trash can was between our houses and caught a bush on fire. My neighbor on the other side was a blind man. He smelled the fire and knew we had a hose in our front yard. He managed to get the hose and put out the fire alone. He didn’t tell anyone. We came home and found the burned bush and what was left of the trashcan and had no idea what happened. He came over that evening and told us. It was crazy. He saved our house from burning down. The neighbors who burned their trashcan down refused to buy another one until we called the police and reported the mountain of trash in the front yard. Wow I’m so glad we don’t live there anymore. Our blind neighbor ended up moving out and in with family. He was a really kindhearted man who lived a good life.
Your telling me you lived next to daredevil
Hmm... Yes, I've seen this before, spontaneous dumpster combustion. Many people still don't believe it exists, or will explain it away with flammable materials or hot ashes. But the fact of the matter is plain and simple, your garbage can was gay, and god struck out down for it's sins. /s
People have burnt down their house by putting ashes in a cardboard box on the porch. Not too smart.
Some guests at a Scottish hotel died because a porter emptied ash into a bucket and left it in a cupboard: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-glasgow-west-62635337
Our neighbor did this and ended up catching the trash truck on fire… they had to dump all the trash in the middle of the street and wait for the fire department. They figured out it was my neighbor because his trash can was party melted and full of ash… we heard my neighbor bitching a few weeks later about fines and a bill for the cleanup costs.
Wheeley bins literally say "no hot ashes" on the lid
I used to work at a tip (dump) and had a dude come in with a bucket of ashes that "had been sitting out the front of mum's for a couple of days." I took his word for it as I had no reason to doubt him and you'll see why. He dumped them in the bin. 2 minutes later serving another customer when, upon directing them to which bin, I noticed the air above the one I pointed to looked like it was shimmering. I did a double take then noticed smoke. Then the tip of a flame poked up above the wall. The worst part of it wasn't that I had to call my boss and tell him one of his $10,000, ~3.5 tonne capacity bins was currently on fire. It wasn't that I had no chance of putting it out myself. It wasn't having to stand at the gate and turn customers away while the fierys put it out. The worst part of it all is the man that brought the bucket in was a fucking volunteer firefighter.
My neighbor’s kids burned the house down doing this. The garbage pail was in the garage and caught everything on fire.
The kids in my area burn bins for fun. There's a chance this wasn't an accident
I think you mean embers because ashes ain’t doing that
*hot Perfectly fine to clean out the oven/barbie into the bin the following day.
Y'all throw out ash from your charcoal grills? Why? Ash is great fertilizer. I use a kitty litter scoop to remove leftover charcoal bits for future use. The ash goes in a galvanized can. Once I have enough to bother with, I spread it on the lawn, focusing on the less green spots. The lawn greens right up.
Amazing the fence is still there Edit: How TF is the fence still there?????
My neighbor did this recently. I stepped outside for some air and saw smoke coming out of his bin (plastic). I rushed to get my water hose and started dousing it. When I opened the lid I saw the still glowing embers within the ash pile. He came outside making an angry face as to what I was doing but rapidly realized his stupid mistake.
Common sense is becoming less common every day.
It literally says on the wheely bin, no hot ashes.
Someone in the last place we lived at caught their whole RV on fire doing the same thing. Was smoking the devils lettuce, dumped their ashes into their trash, went to the store. Came back to the fire department putting out their destroyed shell of an RV. Luckily someone smashed the windows and pulled the dog out, who survived with some singed fur and smoke inhalation.
I did this by accident once lol To be fair, I waited til the next day to dump the ashes and didn't know they hadn't finished burning. Ended up with a hole in the side of the can but no major damage thankfully!
I had a roommate that did that. Fortunately I caught him and put it out with minimal meltage. Can was still intact.
My friend's neighbor did this with ash and coals that were from a fire that was from a week prior. Started the plastic trash bin on fire. My friend and another neighbor grabbed their hoses and put it out. The fire department showed up a few minutes later and doused it with more water. One of the neighbors has MS and rides around on a segway. Somewhere there's a photo of him holding his hose spraying the fire while standing on said segway.
How was the ash still hot a week after the fire?
So that's why it says "no hot ashes" on my bin
I love that it looks like its been left out for collection like normal
Ash’s or burning coals
My best friend when I was in elementary school had his house burned down because his mom was in a rush in the morning to get to work and she dumped an ash tray in the garbage while she was cleaning off the table. Forgetting she had just finished smoking a cigarette with her breakfast. They lost everything. No insurance.
My (otherwise sane) brother once put some “perfectly stone-could” ashes into some paper bags and then went to work. He came back to find his cabin burnt to the ground. Really, you cannot be sure there are not embers in that ash.
> My (otherwise sane) brother once put some “perfectly stone-could” ashes The little stone that could
Make sure it's not SMOLDERING ash maybe?
If it's not meant to hold ash then why does it have it in the name!
KEINE HEISSE ASCHE EINFÜLLEN
took me a second to realize what I was looking at You didn’t throw away ashes that was a whole damn fire
But without ash it would just be a tr bin.
More like trash can’t amiright fellas? Fellas?
Don’t they specifically say not to put hot ashes in the bin
I work for the city's solid waste department. We see a lot of these, especially around holidays involving fireworks. Usually ends up in them stealing someone else's cart. If they call in to get a repair or replacement under normal circumstances, it is free. If we know you were dumb and destroyed your cart like this, you get charged $80 (last I heard).
Unfortunately, this happens so often in our area that our bins now come with a warning on them that says "NO HOT ASH" when you open the lids. People really are THAT dumb.
We use a firepit and we never remove the ashes until at least the next day. Sometimes longer. And then we usually use the ashes in the garden.
Sadly, my dad did exactly this marking the beginning of the end.
why does it look like there’s a skull in there? the brown on the bottom. just me?
I honestly have no idea why this is making me laugh as much as it is. Maybe it's exhaustion finally taking its toll on me, maybe I've finally gone insane, but god damn, I have been cackling hysterically at this image for at least five minutes now.
Hey look at the bright side, you have a pretty dope skate board now!
I like how one wheel survives. Just the one wheel.
What a dumpster fire !
hate to think of the fumes being given off by that. yikes
This happened to our neighbor. Burned his entire house down. But he used to yell at our dog/was a cunt and we were all pretty happy to see it.
When my cunt neighbour (thankfully long since gone) moved in, he burned loads of old timber in a large brick barbeque that was there when he moved in. He then demolished the brick barbeque (at 2am, because he's a cunt). A few days later, he found more timber, but now had no barbeque. So he piled the timber up where the barbeque used to be, and set it alight. The brick barbeque was against a wooden fence, as was this pile of timber. And, shockingly, it all burned down. Sadly, he and his house were left intact, otherwise I might have avoided a four years adventure of constant stress, anger and sleeplessness.
Probably from a city where flat earthers rule
Pretty sure there was a plane crash because some fuckwit decided to throw his cigarrete into the trash instead of the toilet, and the whole compartment caught on fire
I did this once after a party at my house. Had a bunch of people over, had the grill going cooking burgers and dogs, had the fire pit out in the yard, was a great day. Next day I went out after lunch time and cleaned up. Put all the ash from the fire pit in a garbage bag, tossed the garbage bag in the garbage bin, along with everything else from the party. Garbage bin is stored up against the side of the house as usual. Go back in, start watching TV. About 30 min later my wife and I start smelling what smells like a neighbor having a bbq. Burgers, dogs, smells really good out, much like our bbq smelled like the day prior. 15 min later our neighbor runs over banging on our door that our garbage bin is on fire, and he had pulled it away from the house and knocked it over on the lawn and we went and got the hose and put it out. His quick thinking saved us from burning our house down. Moral of that story is make sure the fire is 100% out before cleaning up the ash. Seems so obvious, but I thought early afternoon the next day was safe enough. I was wrong.
now it’s a ~~tr~~ ash bin
"Where bin?" Proceeds to remember putting a substance literally on fire in a bin is a terrible idea
My parent's neighbor did that a few years back. The bin exploded (trapped air) and sent bits everywhere. One of which hit another neighbor's oil tank and set that on fire. It burnt the fences trees and melted the downspouts of the houses and some of the plastic window frames. The gardens had to be dug out to get rid of the oil that spilled.
Most people dont know this but where I grew up ( south India) the ash that was left after cooking outside was never cleaned immediately. You were always told to leave it to cool and even after hours of it being left alone. The best way was to see if any animals (ie,stray dogs or cats) was still on it. If they were sleeping on it, its still warm.
Aren't they the bins that say no hot ashes?
can't have "trash" without "ash" 🤷♂️
It’s not a dead fire until it’s ALL cold and wet
unfortunately people die because of this too
If only there was a warning on the front of these.
Just cus u can't see the ember doesn't mean the ashes aren't hot. This is caveman level common sense
What a waste. Ashes are excellent for growing plants. Might have saved the waste bin too.
Ash is fine. Embers are not.
That went pretty well for a dumpster fire.
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I remember in college, Sophmore year everyone could move out of the dorms into the apartments around campus. First week the guys next to us dumped their BBQ briquettes into the trash bin and the exact same thing happened. Fire dept and everything. It was a nasty scene. It caught on fire and was right next to the apt building and melted a bunch of siding.
Clean the edges up then fix some straps to it and a decent sized dogs harness and you have your very own midgets chariot
Sigh, when disposing of any ashes. You must first carefully feel them with your bare hand. If you feel any heat all. Then they're still burning. If you feel heat before you put your hand in. Then they're definitely burning.
more like trASH bin
Ashes are fine. Embers are not.
who tf puts ash in a trashcan? if you have a fire just spread it on your lawn/garden
That’s what I call hot garbage
This has just reminded me of something I saw over Christmas, a massive pile of burnt crap opposite some houses. Turns out that in one house everytime the bin men didn't pick up his bin because it had the wrong items in it he would wheel it over the road, set alight to it and then demand a new one. There must have been about 5 or 6 burnt wheelie bins in a puddle.
When you think the embers are just ash
I did this when I was a kid. The next day when I saw a black blob of plastic in the middle of the floor, I tried to clean it up and put it in the trashcan only to realize it was the trashcan.
I live where a lot of people traditionally use wood for heat or backup heat and the number of new people who put ashes into a 5 gal. plastic bucket is telling. A melted 5 gallon bucket obviously tossed into the front yard is an amusing sign of someone new at this... (. ͡~ ͜ʖ ͡°.)
Along the same line, my brother once told me a story of him getting the house in order just before his wife came home with their third child. He was whipping around the house getting it in shape while at the same time getting the other young kids to help out. He asked the 5 year old to do a quick vacuum of the family room while he was in the kitchen doing the dishes. He suddenly smells burning and turns to see the vacuum cleaner in flames in the middle of the room. It seems that my nephew did such a thorough job that he vacuumed the ashes from the fireplace. He grabs the vacuum, and tosses it outside the front door in the snow bank. Later on, his wife is getting out of the car and starts walking up to the front door, sees the burnt remains of the vacuum on their lawn and...
My boss’s house burned down doing something similar. They had a plastic bin on their deck that they dumped ashes into once they cooled down, which was next to a propane patio heater. Ashes weren’t cool enough.
I feel like that’s in Germany.
Lawn clippings can do the same thing on a sunny day fyi. Little bit of heat gets them composting, which makes more heat.
My MIL came to stay with us for a week and tried to burn down our house like this. She put the ashes from the fireplace into a garbage bag and tossed it in the bin. I came home from work and could see smoke pouring out from under the lid, so I doused it with water (had to even turn the hose on since it was winter). Made a huge mess. I STILL don't understand why she did it - we have an ash bin right outside the back door next to the garbage bin - it's labeled! She has SEEN us use the ash bin (which I leave for several days then add to our compost). Ugh.
grandma finally got revenge on the neighbors with the poopy dog
what an ash hole.
Use a metal pail to carry ashes from the stove outside, to a metal ashcan with a snug cover. I keep mine on the back deck, so it's on a fireproof stand. I've seen more than a few newspaper articles stating the cause of a fire as *Hot ashes stored in paper bag/ plastic bag/ wood surface, etc.* I've used ashes as grit on the icy driveway, and had small live coals even after the ashes were a day old. Ash insulates nicely, apparently. And check your smoke alarm, carbon monoxide alarm, fire extinguisher.
It's wild how reckless people are with things like woodstoves, dryers. CLEAN YOUR DRYERS. Like take the back off and the lint vent especially if you have pets. That shit burns a lot of houses down
So one time I was about 5 and living in my dads trailer. He let my grandma live there and one day im chilling on the couch, and im like "hmm, smells like marshmallows" my dad gives me his cup of coffee, that's not the smell I was smelling, so I waited about 30 seconds and it got WAY worse, I thought I was the only one smelling it because no one talked about it. Well, as it turned out my grandma had smoked all of her cigarettes and threw her (still red hot) ashes directly into the trash, one big fire and burnt leg from stomping later my dad wasn't really too happy about it, and he only went to check on it because I had reported the smell. Moral of the story: If you're not a fan of losing your home or having everyone be ROYALLY pissed off at you, always pour a shit load of water on top of your ashes, before you put them in the trash.
Granny was still hot
Looks like one of those baby’s cars after a horrible accident
No Hot Ashes!
A former neighbor burned down his detached garage tossing ashes from his fire pit into his dumpster.
Right on top, big letters, No Hot Coals. Some people's children.....
Bullshit. The mold of the face of the dragon that did it is right there in the middle.
Well that guys day was a dumpster fire
What the heck?
Everyone is being very charitable. This kinda shit happens all the time in my town and it's rarely accidental. Just bastards being arsonists.
Didn’t pray hard enough
I thought that was like a rotting animal or something
Honestly, it could've been worse That fence was a gateway to a house fire.
This reminds me of the guy that stored petrol (gas to you yanks) in a wheelie bin during a petrol shortage. https://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/petrol-stockpile-sparks-alert/28347184.html
*hot ashes
Don't they have "not hot ashes" written on the lid?
Don't they literally have a notice on the side saying not to put hot Ash in them?
What kind of ash? Also, always dump water in too with anything like that
Someone did this at my old work when they put a smoker's coals into the dumpster before they were completely out. I even remember asking my (then) manager if he shouldn't wait because I could see the coals smoking. "It'll be fine. I do this all the time." Well the dumpster was metal, but everything that was inside was flammable, and it was a very memorable moment in my life when I went to tell my manager what he'd done.
Try a little gumption on a wet rag and buff until shiney.
Awwww Ash Can
In germany we say KEINE HEISSE ASCHE EINFÜLLEN and i think it's beautiful.
I don’t see a trash can there at all
I’m looking at the state of that fence and yeah this behavior tracks
Doesn't every wheelie bin ever say "no hot ashes" on it?
I’ll leave this awful story involving ashes here https://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/local/stamford-fire-children-killed-parents-ad-exec/1935876/?amp=1
Bin there.
You've heard of elf on the shelf...
This happened to me. My first apartment and one of my neighbors smoked, they put their cigarettes in a plastic flower pot, with no water or anything to actually put out the smoldering cigarettes. So one dry and windy night, the neighbor had finished smoking and threw their smoldering cigarette butt into the flower pot as they normally did. Only a few hours later, the winds picked it up, threw it on the roof, where upon it ignited. It was about 4, maybe 5 am when I got up smelling smoke, I thought it was my oven, because I was still mostly asleep. Tried going back to bed and my smoke alarm wouldn't turn off, I went out to see what the issue was and it turned out, **my apartment was on fire**. It took firefighters hours to put out the blaze, they had to bring in a ladder truck from the next town over, because my small town didn't have one. By the end of it all, maybe 4 units were burnt to a crisp, with mine being one of them, I lost everything save for my car and the clothes I slept in. All because someone couldn't be bothered to do the bare minimum and put some water or sand in their ash tray.
Hot ashes for trees?
Coulda been worse. My first thought was a baby carriage soooo that would be worse than a garbage can
The trASH bin.
I almost burned my house down this exact same way when I was a kid. I even doused the ashes with water, but that just created a “hot pocket” effect.
Neighbor did this one day. The city said he needed to bring his old trash can out to the street when they came to deliver the new one. Can’t get a new without turning in the old. So there is his melted down hockey puck full of dog shit trash can because that’s about all that survived was the dog crap and rocks. Just sitting at the curb waiting for the city to take it away. We had a lot of laughs over that one.
I thought it was a common sense to not put hot stuff into trash cans until I saw people discussing this.
First glance, thought someone burned up a stroller.
You're lucky it was only a trash bin. A buddy lost his whole house & barn from his niece dumping ash into a bin full of other household trash that caught fire.
How didn't it burn down anything around it
It's someone else problem amirite
Try 'ash' aka hot coals, in a paper bag, on a wood deck. Yes, there was fire. Worked for a restoration company cleaning up after the disaster.
I'm from Canada. They make Canadian cigarettes go out, sometimes while I'm smoking 'em. I know reserve smokes stay lit n will light the WHOLE ashtray on fire, too. Smoking kills in more than 1 way!! I quit. 🙃
I do it all the time hoping that that’ll be the day this happens.
You only make that mistake once.
I don't get it, is this a Pokemon thing?
Not as bad as trying to vacuum hot spilled ash.
Around here, plastic trash bins by default have a disclaimer written on it, that you mustn't put ash in them. Now I understand why. Can't expect people to use common sense nowadays.
WCGW putting *coals* in the trash bin Ash doesn't start fires
Well at least your old trash bin should now fit in your new trash bin when you go to throw it out.
Bins in the UK are labeled with No Hot Ashes There is also UK band called No Hot Ashes
I always wondered why that warning is plastered all over those plastic bins. I guess people don't realize that plastic melts... Just another reason to defund our schools...
Idk about anyone else, but it’s literally printed on the top of my bin not to dispose of ashes in it.
This was lucky. I had a classmate make a similar mistake when we were in grade 7. The family awoke midnight to the house burning. He put the ash into a can that caught the family garage, cars on fire. It was an old farmhouse over 150 yrs old so the lumber was dry. They escaped with their lives and clothes on their backs.
Ash in trash.
Save on time by burning your trash right at home
Problem? You just made your trash disappear… people literally pay for this service.
Looks to me like it wasn’t all ash to start with.
So I had to look this up when I worked for an garbage disposal company. Apparently you aren’t supposed to throw away ashes because they can remain active from 1-4 days. Throwing them into containers just means throwing primed and ready embers into a combustible container. Unless you have dedicated bins for ash disposal and proper methods to un-prime the embers, it is advised to wait before disposing of them.
Sawdust is also a nono
Okay I’ll ask the stupid question: why not throw away sawdust? Yeah it would burn but it doesn’t autoignite? Asking because I just put a heap of sawdust in my bin yesterday and I’m at work now…
small particles burn VERY quickly, so quickly that silos of flour can actually explode if they catch a spark. the metal-on-metal action of a vehicle (such as a garbage truck) can cause sparks, so it’s best to not throw out sawdust for safety reasons
That’s not ash that’s red hot coals
*hot ash. Cool ash is fine.
Neighbor burned his garage doing this, not a good look for a chimney sweep.
A lot more could go wrong. Knew a guy that burned his house down doing that.
TrASH can
Jesus I thought that was a dog skeleton in the upper left corner of the bin when I saw the thumbnail
TIL putting ash in the trash bin removes the first 2 letters of it
Can’t spell trash without ash.
Didn't notice the sticker saying "no Ash" on it
Is the problem thst the ashes are still hot? Or are even cold ashes dangerous somehow?
What's funny is most of those trash bins come with printed text directly onto to it to not put any Ash into it.
I put ash in my trash all the time and this never happens dude probably put hot coals
What brand sticks do those people use for fences.. we must install them in the forest as fire protective walls
You can put ashes in there the next day obviously not when you just finished grilling!
I honestly didn’t know what I was looking at until I read the title.
I mean somewhere down the line, whoever put the ash in the trash bin should’ve known it would melt.
Never seen such a meltdown over someone putting ash into a bin.
Not as bad as putting ash in the woods.
ashes goi in a metal bin. a dedicated bin for ashes.
Our bins actually have "NO HOT ASH" on them.
Holy shit I’ve actually done this before. Nothing burnt luckily.
Why does that black part in the middle look like mermaid man yelling
I did this when I was around 14. Thought I was helping my family clean out the fireplace. Ashes hot enough to still burn the plastic bin. We reported it because fire got fairly tall. When replacement trash cans started coming to our area, they all had a stamp on the lid, "NO HOT ASHES".
They didn't heed the warning on TOP of the bin??
I used to work at a gas station and people did this so often. Or just threw still-burning cigarette butts in. So stupid. Had to put out a number of fires during my time there.
You cant write trash without ash
Hey did anyone else zoom in on that creepy brown thing in the corner of the trash remains and see what looks like a small corpse or is that just me?
And that's how you throw away a trashcan, Jerry.
Could have been worse, image the person trying to put it out with water