I had a fire in my toaster oven today.

I was making some toast like any other day, and there was smoke coming out of the toaster oven door, so I looked in and some big blob of something black was smoking on the bottom tray. So before the smoke alarm goes off, I thought I should get that to stop. I decided to pull out the crumb tray, so that thing would stop smoking. But instead the tray got stuck on the heating element, and suddenly, I saw small flames! I panicked for a second, but figured that the tray was metal, and as long as the toast didn't catch fire, it would eventually go out. (I remembered to turn the power off anyway!) It did. I didn't burn the house down.