Update on the maple syrup efforts. <near disaster>
My friend decided, for some reason, that he would try boiling a smaller pot down on his kitchen stove while he did much bigger batches outside. When he finished outside, he forgot about the pot on the stove and went to bed.
He awoke in the night when the smoke detector went off. There was so much smoke when he tried to evac out down the stairs that he and his brother turned back around and waited out on an upper deck for the fire dept. They were rescued via ladders.
The good news is that nothing in the house truly went on fire. It was just smoke from when the sap boiled right down to a solid and went on fire in the pot. The pot was big and tall enough that the flames stayed contained to the pot.
The bad news is that his house and everything in it have to be professionally cleaned so they had to move out for a week or two.
Syrup production is delayed for the week but the important thing is that he still has his house and that no one got hurt.
