I guess it makes sense that once we started making our furniture out of petroleum derivatives that they would burn faster. Hadn't thought about that before.

I'm lucky. Back in my stepdad's drinking days he would fall asleep on the sofa with lit cigarettes all the time. We had one cushion where the corner had been completely burned away. My mother was able to throw a blanket over him and the couch and put out the fire. On a new sofa he'd probably have been burned alive.