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@Jimmy_Fingers
I have a similar story: was at Uni and some mates of a Uni friend were up to visit and they were staying with us (Uni mate was across the road). They decide to cook some bacon only the leccy ran out, so they took there food across the road to finish it. Me and a couple of other residents arrive back later that evening. We find the leccy out and pop to the garage to get some more, go home, plug in, go upstairs and light up.
Maybe twenty minutes or so later my mate gets up to go to the toilet. He’s gone about half an hour to the point we were wondering where the fuck he was. Finally he re-appears looking white as a sheet. Turns out he went out a noticed a whisp of smoke, when downstairs to find they had left the grill on, and it being a student grill the pan beneath was full of about six months worth of grease, now on fire. He said the flames had almost reached the ceiling when he got there and he just managed to put it out before the ceiling caught.
Think we would have been able to get out if we hadn’t found it in time by jumping out of the window but I would have lost some very sweet vinyl. Makes you wonder how many actual fires are caused that way.