As far as I know, I'm the only techie to start a fire at my old workplace. The whole building smelled like an electrical fire, and I got teased about that for a long time. Course, I was also the first person to cook popcorn when they finally got a microwave, and I managed to burn that...
Wondering if we shouldn't add "Firestarter" to your list of titles... ;-)
Wish I'd had a camera the day I produced a mushroom cloud over my workbench.
Had a little circuit in a breadboard (one of those plastic boards you plugged the ICs, components and wires into -- this was in '76, when everything was 0.1" through-hole), and as far as I can guess the CMOS analog switch suddenly shorted. The circuit wasn't working, so I started probing. Touched the IC and instantly got a rectangular burn. Suddenly a little blister formed on the top of the IC and smoke jetted out from the pins. Then the blister grew and popped, and I had a 15" mushroom cloud.