Last weekend I heard a tragic story. Well, maybe not too awful tragic. No one was hurt or anything like that. Basically my wife's best friend had not emptied her dryer's lint screen and the house caught on fire. It happened after everyone had turned in for the night. She apparently tossed a load of clothes in the dryer before heading up to bed. I'd say this is pretty normal. I do it all the time. However, the lint screen was way too full, and the heavy pad of lint caught on fire. Luckily she smelled the smoke, and the trusty smoke alarms sounded throughout the ground floor. Everyone rushed outside immediately and she called the fire department.