An update on the previous post

After bouncing some ideas off of people, I think I finally came to a mundane explanation for why my altar nearly caught fire. A few days prior, I had used a special oil to clean everything, and some may have still been left on the ceiling of my altar, which would have had the potential to heat more quickly than the wood, and start melting/burning the laminate underneath- which then superheated the wood. Talk about a a chain of cause and effect! So while the event seemed very unusual, it was probably wrong of me to jump to conclusions and try to give it a magical explanation. Either way, I'm going to figure out a different situation for altarspace in the apartment, just for safety's sake.