Watch the backdraft movie.
You can make a stove smolder and produce smoke and gasses with no flame. And then when there is a touch of air (and hence oxygen) it all combusts suddenly producing and exciting whoomth and a jet of flame up the chimney and out of the vent holes.
Hence keeping flammable objects away just in case.
You can make a stove smolder and produce smoke and gasses with no flame. And then when there is a touch of air (and hence oxygen) it all combusts suddenly producing and exciting whoomth and a jet of flame up the chimney and out of the vent holes.
Hence keeping flammable objects away just in case.