Exploding bees!

I was staying in my parents house in my old bedroom.  There was a beesnest up in the top of the chimney so I started ubilding small fires in the fireplace to try and smoke them up.  The little bits of smoke weren’t doing much thogh so I grabbed some stuff for making an actual fire, excetp i chickened out of starting it.  I wasn’t sure what would happen if there was a big fire in a fireplace that hadn’t been used for years, and was also afraid that maybe the nest would catch fire and fall and explode bees everywhere.