teki torche fire

[medvampire]

Here is a pic of the damage. I am happy no one was burnt. The deck can and will be repaired hard to replace family.


Steve

[MaryLee]

Wow!!

I'm glad it turned out "OK".....

[sevver]

Yes, me too. I think I have the plastic ones too. They are all away from the deck though. I wonder if this is a common thing, could be grounds for a mass lawsuit. Did you let the wick burn down too far maybe? I don't see how else it could have happened. Sort of a Malatov Cocktail...

[CToon]

Steve,

I'm glad it was only minor compared to what could have been.. But I have to be honest and tell you I was chuckling reading your story .. How could I ? Well...I had a situation SO similar , I bet we used the same expletives..

fire starts = Oh !@#$#!%

run for hose over gravel

Hose wont reach

etc etc

I can most definately relate. just thought I'd share

[sevver]

That is like the Pella window commercial where the blinds are in the window. The guy outside knocks the grill over, and it starts on fire, he runs for the hos and as he starts to spray it it stops cuz it is off. Then the grill explodes, flies in the air, and lands behind him on the doghouse. All the while the dog is running around all excited, and the women looking at the blinds in the window don't even notice.

[medvampire]

In hind sight it was kinda funny. I was snickering when I wrote that. The oldest boy was laughing so hard at me after every thing calmed down. He said ever thing was in kinda in slow motion and watching me freak out was funny. I am a big guy and I never touched the steps on the way out according to him. I look at as a lesson learned. The only real after effect is my aching feet. I work nights and am on my feet most of the night. I have sore spots on both feet and I am limping around like a lame horse. I have been half expecting the other staff to shoot me and put me out of my misery.
Steve

[KirstenHW]

We had a WalMart tiki torch incident too - it was one of the ones with the plastic clear tank, all wrapped in rattan or wicker or something. Very flammable. We have terrible mosquitoes and they seemed to help. Especially when one erupted one evening. Tiki juice and flames all over the pavers. Luckily no one was hurt! 'Cept the tiki, that is.

[poolgal]

We had a similar experience! We caught ours though before it exploded! The rattan wicker ones Kirsten mentions above. We took em back! Scorched and all, and bought the metal ones.
Di

[hoffmans]

There are plenty of Tiki Torches on recall.
You can go to the United States Consumer Products Safety Commission to find if yours has been recalled. The web site is :
http://www.cpsc.gov/

Type in Tiki torches in the search box.
Remeber it is Tiki not Teki.