I think you made a good choice. We all make mistakes but if we make a good faith effort to make it right, it means a lot.
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I would never call out someone in a public review either who acknowledged their mistakes and did what they could to mitigate the damage. I imagine as soon as the house started filling with smoke that they were mortified and I’m sure these folks will read the house rules and instructions for how to use things properly the next time.
Also you won’t leave a fire pre-built, assuming guests will all read the part about you being present for the first fire lighting or that they would ever check to make sure the flue is open. They’ve seen plenty of movies where people were romantically enjoying a fire, but funnily enough, the movies never show anyone opening the flue first 
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Yes Yes Yes!
Eureka @jaquo! Thanks for providing this info. Google as I may, it took the above phrase to find what I was looking for.
No. Grill. happening. Not willing to mess with fire code. This is an urban 1904 row home. Small enclosed patio, over-hang, yada yada.
Open-flame cooking devices. No gas-fired grills, charcoal grills, or other similar devices used for
cooking, heating, or any other purpose, shall be used or kindled on any balcony or under any overhanging portion or within 10 feet (3 m) of any structure.
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I managed 9 apartment buildings, most with entry from balconies along the front of the building, for 3+ years. Every summer, someone would buy a nice grille and if they were lucky I’d catch them unloading it, or at least before they fired it up. We would even put notices on every door that they weren’t allowed by their lease but still… not only that but 4 of the buildings were next to wooded areas where black bears waited for those food odors to send them right over (dumpsters were in a locked steel cage).
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Geez, that’s pretty ballsy on a balcony. The area I have is a small yard on the ground level. But it’s surrounded by structures and also has an overhang that covers part of the area. And a wood deck. No way that it would pass the guidelines.
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I am so afraid of guests starting fire in or near my 200 year old home that I actually put battery operated candles with a remote in my fireplace. We go through a lot of batteries, but its safer.
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Muddy, I live in the town where Dark Waters is set. One of my nieces is unable to have children because of the contamination to the water of the elementary school she went to downstream of DuPont where they made the Teflon.
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Long before I saw that movie, I never wanted any Teflon cookware. I read things about the dangers back decades ago.
I’m so sorry for your niece.
I have a friend who has gone through breast cancer and colon cancer. She grew up in a part of Ohio where she said 7 rivers flow through, all of them passing through commercial agricultural lands upstream, of course treated with toxic chemicals. Everyone in her family has had cancer or died of cancer, as have all of her former neighbors.
Whenever someone used to come knocking on my door, collecting for cancer research I would tell them, no, sorry- many of the things which definitely cause cancer are already known and nothing is done about it- people are still being exposed to those things all the time.
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