As I was saying in another post...kids (and adults) can do incredibly stupid things when it comes to fire.
Growing up, I did dumb things myself, my brother nearly burned our house down, I have set fields and nearly trees on fire, and have burned myself in the process.
I nearly suffered what could have been serious burns, saving myself only because I was next to a swimming pool and immediately threw myself in when I set my neck and shoulder on fire with a tiki torch by accident. It wasn’t as “dumb” as it was careless...as an adult, I tried to push a lit tiki torch into the ground, and when I put force on it, the pole bent dropping the torch onto my neck and back where the fluid spilled onto me and ignited. I escaped that with burnt hair and mostly 1st degree burns.
As a kid, I set a field on fire because I was using a slingshot to fire smoke bombs into a field across the street from my house, and had no foresight to see that the flame and sparks the thing belched would set the dry grass on fire.
i didnt post to you, you replying to the right person?
I once used rubber cement on the back of a piece of shelf paper. The fumes from the stove pilot light three feet away in the tiny, enclosed kitchen made it ignite in my hands. Burned my eyebrows off. So lucky I had a wet dishtowel there to tamp the fireball out. I was in an apartment in a mostly wooden building built in 1820. Wouldn’t have taken much to start an inferno.