A lot of people have asked what caused the fire in our garage; it was an unattended battery charger for a remote control helicopter. The scary thing is that I think most of us have plugged in battery chargers for tools, toys, and a variety of other things and left them be, often for days. 
It took less than 2 hours from the time this battery was put on the charger and plugged in until the time our garage was a charcoal cave. The fire had probably been burning awhile before any of us heard the alarms (we were at the neighbors for a birthday dinner), so it didn't take long for the battery charger to heat up to dangerous levels. 
We had replaced the appliances in our kitchen, so the old dishwasher was sitting in the garage and the battery charger was on top of it. When the fire was out, the only thing left of it was the rack inside, and it was mangled. The rest of the dishwasher was completely gone. (See post below, just prior to this one, for a photo of what was left of the dishwasher.)
The entire inside of the garage was black and everything was covered in soot. It melted the garage door opener, ruined the washer and dryer, and scorched the pingpong table. The funny thing is, pingpong ball survived mostly in tact. It didn't melt and it didn't turn black! 
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| One bike was white and other blue before the fire. |
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