Do you have a wood burning fire place?

[SeaHorse_Fanatic]

Cedar burns hot & fast, but alder gives a longer burn usually. I used cedar to start the fire & alder to keep it going for the night. And as mentioned above, its the sap in the wood that's popping. I think really dry wood is less likely to pop like that, since most of the moisture is already evaporated out of the logs.

Enjoy your wood-fireplace. I lived in Powell River in a trailer by a fish farm in the mountains for 2 years & my main heat source in the winter was an old wood stove, so learning to bank a fire properly so the wood burns all night was a necessity.

Anthony