Overheard just now on the scanner:

“Fire Alarm to responding companies, the caller states she tried to start a fire in the fireplace and now the house is filling with smoke.  When I asked her if she’d opened the flue, she said ‘What’s that?’ ”

Ahh, suburbia.

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