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Get yourself a fireguard for when you're not in the room and you'll be fine. Also decent, dry, seasoned hardwood so it doesn't spit.
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I'd get the chimney checked out before you use it again.
Downstairs had two fire engines pumping several hundred gallons of water of up the chimney to put out the blaze they had. They'd just had the carpets done in their living room too.
This was in a proper lined chimney that just hadn't been swept in a couple of years.
They were completely unaware anything was going wrong until they looked out of the window and saw the embers raining down on the garden.
Thankfully it was just internal to the chimney (with big sparks/embers coming out of the top) and didn't affect either us or the top floor flat although the fire brigade were up with the IR cameras checking the walls in our flat on and off for a good few hours until they were satisifed it was all ok.
A fire extinguisher wouldn't have done much to help.
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villa-ru
Greenbank
@almac68
Ha, having an open fire in the house is a massive hazard though. We tested with offcuts of oak parquet, the irony was not lost on my missus who stood by with fire extinguishers in both hands, in case it got out of control.