House had fire from over-use of fireplace

[Jeff S.]

Bought a foreclosure house that had been on fire. In reading the fire report it was stated as the cause: "excessive usage of fireplaces over time that had an ongoing pyrolysis to the wood structure members."

The owner stated her husband had been using the fireplaces for about 3 hours burning papers and clothes and had been using it a lot lately.

They didn't know it was on fire until the wife saw smoke coming out of the eves from the outside.

Do you have fireplaces in your rentals? I have 2.