When you’ve got a fireplace with an ash box, you’ve got to be careful dumping out the ashes. Sometimes there’s a hot ember still in there, and all that dry heat can cause a fire if it comes in contact with something flammable. Chipper Jones learned this today:
Chipper Jones started a forest fire
Whoops.


Daniel Shirey
Lol. Tried to do my daily chores and cleaned out the fireplace. Went and dumped the ashes. Alls good right? Nope. Set the woods on fire! Ugh
— Chipper Jones (@RealCJ10) January 23, 2014 You’d take it from his “Lol” that this isn’t that big a deal. Surely he didn’t set all of “the woods” ablaze and the fire department is just there as a precaution. Just a littl-- HOLY CRAP, CHIPPER:
@RealCJ10 cleaned the fireplace out today.meet the neighbors too..they came 2 say they called the fire dept #thanks pic.twitter.com/WjBliZHU80
— Taylor Higgins (@lilgeorgiapeach) January 23, 2014 That really is the whole woods. Lol.
Chipper, pay attention:

