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[DarthWoo]

So I'm returning from class, and I notice a fire truck parked out in front of my apartment complex, lights flashing. I think to myself, maybe they're just showing off. Then I see a couple firefighters in full garb entering one of the buildings. Not a great sign. I see some police standing outside same building, and smell a bit of smoke. Getting a little worried. Fortunately, the police have a fairly unconcerned look about them, so I ask them what's going on. It seems some jackass in that building managed to create a small fire (coincidentally, at the apartment senate meeting last night we were talking about organizing a relaxation activity which might involve giving out those smelly candles, but concern was raised about the prohibition on burning items) in his/her (dunno) apartment. This is something I'm always worried about when living in any sort of multiple unit residence. One moron can burn down everyone's home. Oh well, I hope that if this person was acting negligently, they boot his ass out of this housing complex.

 

[demon]

You know what would teach his stupid ass? Set his apartment on fire.

 

[Cherubae]

Just make sure you have Renter's Insurance in the case that your apartment gets burned down. It only costs about $12 a month.

 

[8bit]

I overheard this tale recounted on a bus in Glasgow a few years ago. Glasgow has a lot of high rise flats, and while I was travelling home one night, the bus passed some flats just beside the Glasgow Rangers football stadium(I think the area is Ibroxholm Oval or something like that). As the exterior of the building was grey, a single window stood out as it was charred by obvious smoke damage.

Anyway, I was sitting on the bus, and one of the women in front of me started talking to her friend about it. The womans husbands was a Fireman, called to attend a fire in that house. A pair of junkies(neds/chavs with drug dependency problems) lived there, and one night, likely high on something decided to make a Glasgow Salad(Chips/French Fries). Being junked up fuck ups, the chip pan catches fire. Junkie one decides to throw the burning chip pan out of the 15th floor window, onto the motorway below.

On the way to the window, junkie one manages to pour burning chip fat onto the sofa with the end result of the sofa also being on fire. Junkie two, obviously being the brains of the operation, decides the only way to go is pushing the burning sofa through the window. A burning sofa sticking out of a window above a busy motorway(and across from one of the highest security prisons in the UK) was just enough to alert the fire brigade.

 

[Richiban]

Just make sure you have Renter's Insurance in the case that your apartment gets burned down. It only costs about $12 a month.

This is probably the best advice you can get with regards to this.

I pay $20 a month for renters insurance which will protect my belongings from fire and theft.