Earlier this week, firefighters in Arizona were called to a mobile home trailer park to put out a small fire that was accidentally set. Apparently, an unidentified man was using a blowtorch to try and kill several spiders inside and underneath his house. Fortunately, no one was seriously hurt by the man’s stupidity.

According to reports, it took twenty-three men from the Tucson Fire Department roughly eleven minutes to put out the small house fire. When they first arrived at the scene, they were told that the homeowner and his elderly mother, who needed to be carried outside by her son and neighbors, had already evacuated and that no one else was believed to be inside.

While being lifted outside, the woman sustained minor injuries and was subsequently treated by paramedics as the flames were being extinguished. Aside from that, no other injuries were reported. Upon learning about the incident, the Red Cross decided to reach out and assist the two displaced residents.

Although the cause of the fire is still under investigation, investigators told reporters that it looks like a propane blowtorch, which the homeowner allegedly used to try and destroy a couple of spider webs underneath the home and kill the remaining spiders, started the blaze.

Shockingly, this is not the first time someone has inadvertently started a fire while trying to exterminate unwanted critters. For example, firefighters in Seattle, Washington were forced to put out a fire in 2014 that was accidentally started by a man who was trying to kill a spider using a can of spray paint and a lighter, which he turned into a homemade blowtorch.

And back in 2015, a man was filling up his car at a Detroit gas station when he spotted a spider crawling near his gas tank and pulled out his lighter to try and kill it. Unsurprisingly, upon flicking it on, the gas pump and the man’s car were immediately engulfed in flames.

Terrified, he pulled the pump’s house out of his car, spreading the flames in the process. He then jumped in his car and pulled away before returning with a fire extinguisher to put out the blaze. At the same time, the gas station attendant hit the emergency shut off switch to stop the inferno from getting worse. Thankfully, they were able to quickly extinguish the blaze.

Prior to that, firefighters in Dallas were forced to put out a house fire that was started by a construction worker who tried to kill a wasp nest using flammable fluid and a lighter.

“Investigators determined that the fire was accidentally started when one of the workers found a wasp nest inside the storage shed and decided to burn it with a heat source and flammable liquid,” announced the Dallas Fire-Rescue in a statement released shortly after extinguishing the flames. “After burning the nest, the worker believed he had completely extinguished the flames. But after smoldering for an unknown amount of time, the flames eventually rekindled and started the aforementioned fire,” they added.

And several months before that, firefighters in Ohio responded to a call about a house fire that was started by the homeowner’s son, who was trying to kill bed bugs with a lighter. “We sprayed the couch earlier but, uh, some alcohol you buy from the drugstore which kills them on contact, and he was chasing one down with a lighter and the couch catch fire,” explained the homeowner, Fred Horne, while speaking with reporters.

Clearly, using fire to kill unwanted pests is a terrible idea. Hopefully, by hearing about the consequences of doing so, others will be deterred from making the same mistake in the future.