PampChefJoy
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Make sure they are ABSOLUTELY extinguished before leaving them and going to bed. These "safe and sane" fireworks, just a small package with about 5-6 fountains, were dunked in water and left in a container on the side of our house, behind the fence. Over 2 hours after that (after my husband walked by it a couple times and noticed nothing out of the ordinary), the container caught fire, lit up the fence and started to travel up the side of garage wall. My husband and I were still awake, smelled the smoke, and he went out to check it out - grabbed the garden hose and managed to put out the flames. The preliminary estimate is over $5000 and that does not include the further damage we found when we pulled off some more of the stucco - so the claims adjuster is coming back tomorrow. I thank God that we were still awake and that it hadn't spread too quickly. We dodged a huge bullet there. Two houses down the street were not so lucky - the same thing happened to them. They put their fireworks in the garbage and did not drown them enough. It lit up between two houses and took them both out with major damage.