Honey, I burned down the back yard!

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Stanley Lee only realized something was wrong when wife Peggy told him their back garden, in Dorset, was on fire. The 88-year-old thought he had the small garden fire under control and twice checked that it was 'smoking nicely' before heading indoors. But moments later a spark from it shot onto a wooden fence, triggering a huge fire that engulfed the boundaries of four neighboring properties. The inferno destroyed four garden sheds, a neighbor's 4,000 pounds summerhouse, a children's trampoline, and sections of fencing separating four houses.