The Roof, The Roof, The Roof Is On Fire

Before saying too much more, I am taking full responsibility for the following incident. Background story, my parents bought my kids some banana chairs for their birthdays. These chairs came in big boxes. We thought that the boxes would be fun for the kids to play in . Last night the kids were fighting over the boxes, so Chad stuck them in the corner by the fireplace, he wasn't planning on making any more fires this season. Today, I thought I would do some spring cleaning and burn some confidential papers. I lit up the fire. I watched it for about 15 minutes. Then I went to fold some laundry. Chad was at the computer doing some homework. I told him that I smelled a lot of smoke, which was odd because it should have been done burning. He turned around and the cardboard box on the outside of our stove had heated up enough to catch fire. I ran upstairs to get the fire extinguisher. Chad put the fire out with the extinguisher. (Thanks Steve and Janis for buying us that). The powder made a huge mess, and our house was filled with smoke. We opened every window and cleared out for about 2 hours. When we came back, we were so grateful that the house didn't burn down. However, the carpet has some very large burn marks in front of the stove, there is a powdery film all over everything. We tried to use a shop-vac to clean it and it just blew it out because the powder is so fine. We will be calling our insurance on Monday to get an estimate. Until then, the kids can't be downstairs. I don't even know where to start to clean. Should I clean it, or should I wait until after the insurance looks at it? We were so very blessed that we had only the small amount of damage that we did. We are blessed that Chad and I were both home and downstairs. We are blessed that we had a fire extinguisher. We are blessed that no one was hurt. We are blessed to have good friends to go to while our house aired out. They also came back with us to check out the damage. I took these photos shortly after it was put out.