My oven caught on fire when I was making enchiladas but that's about it.

I set fire to paper in school once at break and it spread to some dead leaves. I managed to put it out before it got really big, but my heart definitely skipped a beat or two.

We put red ants in some guys bag once. Then we buried that same bag in the soil like a week later. lolz

Fire is a natural process and the recent fires have only proved that fires need to happen more often. The more you put out fires the more kindlings (dead trees / plant material) builds up. Most places need to burn every 5-10 years. The problem with humans is that they think fire is bad. Fire is actually the best thing that can happen to the environment. First weeds move in, then grasses, then shrubs, then trees. It is the natural progress of plant life. Shrub lands (a lot of California) and grasslands need to burn every few years. If not then you get a lot of invasive species like Juniper (which most people in Texas call Cedar). This turns your grasslands into shrub lands.

A machine I built got overpowered and a capacitator blew up and burned almost this damn thing. My Supervisor was not happy, not at all

Controlled burning only become a recent ideology.  The most persuasive ideology was to put fires out as soon as they happen.  Why do you think the Colorado fire is so big?  I bet because they put out smaller fires beforehand.  Put out the small fires as much as you can but eventually you will be fucked and mother nature will show you who is boss.  No matter how many fucking helicopters/planes you have dumping water / whatever they fucking dump on the fire you can't put it out.  Man is not above nature.  Mother nature will always put man in its' place.

Nah that guy is an arsehole anyway

I saw that on Jarhead. Must of smelt like shit... literally!

thoughtful thread Ryan. Thanks. I was hicking the mountain looking for the fire when it found me. I left another crazy hicker going up on the trail after we talked we were both calm and amiable. He would of talked forever if I let him. I went down he went up. And when i got down the ske was red, brown and black with smoke. I rode my bike out of the forest to the front of my mountain burning down towards my neighborhood. Anyways, making a long story short the man going up probably died as the fire moved in fast with 55 mph winds. The city was a mess as we evacuated and many homes are burning. My home might be safe, but I do not know it is in a valley and the entire city is covered in smoke far from the mountains. I took off work as they practically pushed me to do it and am now waiting around with my gf and roomates not knowing if my house is burned or not.

I live in the UK, there aren't any natural disasters here. (some places are getting flooded more often nowadays, which is partly natural... but the floods would be less severe without human interference (building on flood plains))

Biggest fire I have been near is a bonfire.

I did come across this neat little game a week or so ago though... bit of a sim city strategy-like game but you are on a time and money limit and have to try and mitigate the effects of an oncoming natural disaster (one each for Tsunami, Hurricane, Wild Fire, Earthquake and Flood)
http://www.stopdisastersgame.org/en/playgame.html

I once lighted half a garage on fire...

But no not really, I don't live in AU anymore, so I generally don't see "real fires".