# Tell me about the worst fire you've ever experienced personally.

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**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [February 26, 2016, 7:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-me-about-the-worst-fire-youve-ever-experienced-personally/747246 "2016-02-26T19:54:19Z")\
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**Author:** ![Jennshark](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Jennshark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jennshark)\
**Post date:** [June 19, 2016, 12:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-me-about-the-worst-fire-youve-ever-experienced-personally/747246/61 "2016-06-19T12:18:00Z")

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My office partially burned down (as in, it was mostly in the interior of a building with some exterior windows and was mostly contained to my part of the building).

Oddly enough, I had had a nagging feeling all weekend that I had left our hot waxer on (this is an old-fashioned means of doing press-ready graphic design. I pulled up to work on Monday, saw the damage and almost sh\*t my pants.

Turns out the night custodian had flicked a not-all-the-way-out cigarette butt into the metal barrel my printer used for oily press rags. It’s a _true_ miracle the whole building didn’t go up in a ball of flame (offset presses use some very unstable, highly flammable production chemicals).

It took a Servicemaster Disaster Rehab team about six weeks to clean the damage. At least we got new computers and furniture out of it.

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