Do you like fire / bonfires / candles?

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What is the biggest or most interesting thing you have seen burn?

No, I was thinking more of a bonfire/relatively large fire.

they have bonfires every year for the Bristol Bay, Alaska, Beaver-Round-Up festival :D

I read your profile SilverProteus; what you put under "interests" made me smile :)

An old barn. When I was little, my mother and I went to my grandmother's. She wasn't home but we noticed smoke coming from one of her barns. Before we knew it, it was up in flames. I just stood there watching it burn with a strange excitement.

Furniture in a back yard/garden of a rented house. We kept on bringing more and more things to put on it to keep it going. Anything that qualified as old/clapped out we carried out and slung onto it.

It made big flames, and also some seriously disgusting black smoke which was exciting.

The most interesting part was finding stuff which would make lots of smoke, and seeing how the colour of flames changed depending on the material burning.

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I used to have vivid dreams of standing next to burning buildings. :S not anymore though.

If you have a fireplace, you have to poke it as it begins to die down, so the logs burn all the way through and to keep the heat emanating, rather than suffocating under the exterior ashes. It's quite therapeutic, but then so is the ritual of loading and smoking a briar pipe. Mmmm, Fire good.

I've always loved fires. We grew up in the Pacific Northwest, and would have fires on the beach. I used to love the heat and to watch the embers glow at night.

When I was a teenager, we had several spectacular fires. One was a huge wooden horse barn, a few miles out of town, that went up in flames. I was bothered that they didn't get all the horses out. The other was a very tall wooden grain elevator type building that burned one night. You could see it burn for miles around, and our parents drove us into town to watch. I think they were just as fascinated as we kids were.

Thanks...I guess.

sorry :S I tend to say whatever's on my mind :( much apologies.

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Found a box of matches while walking home from school about 3rd grade, and idly played with them. When finished, tossed them aside and kept walking. Heard excited kids behind me, turned and looked and the huge pile of leaves raked up against someone's rock fence was ablaze.

Oops.

Huge conflagration, firetruck called, etc. Fortunately the rock fence was a good distance from their house.

Guess you could classify my feelings of panic, terror and overwhelming guilt as "interesting"

Wow, I would have loved to have seen that.

Your posting is really interesting and brings me to another question.

Have any of you seen fires that you have actually caught on camera or video?

nope. :( I should think of that next time I have to burn the paper garbage. :)