OK. This is almost as dumb.

I had my Little Smoker on the concrete pad off the back steps out of the garage -- and on bricks. Sounds OK so far.

I changed out the first pan of chips and took off to run some errands. When I got back a couple of hours later, I smelled smoke.

Seems like I dumped the first pan of used chips onto the newly spread beauty bark between the concrete pad and the house. Major black and smoldering ring 'o burnt bark, right next to a wood structure and the house.

No damage, but it could have been REAL BAD!

Lesson #1: If you think the chips are burned out, they aren't. Fire can still occur!
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