this is how house fires start

Good thing our house is made of bricks. On Sunday morning, an extension cord in our kitchen bit the dust, hard. You can see that the plug is still in the socket, but not at all connected to the cord. The cord is charred in several places and was also melted to the cord of the refrigerator and the cord of the toaster. It had to have been flaming, but we didn't see it. Check it out for yourself: