I know people that used their water heater enclosure to store the gas for their lawnmower. but you cant fix stupid. leaving the stove on for hours, days, weeks will not cause a fire in itself. it's not different that having the furnace on for days and weeks at a time during winter.
the only fire it will cause is when you get the gas bill and you explode.
again you cant fix stupid. see above.
semp
There's nothing stupid in storing flammable things in the vicinity of your stove when it's not used. Some people have small kitchens. Then again if a hacker can remotely activate things without seeing the risks, that would be an extremely bad situation for the house owner. For example right now we have 15 below freezing down here. I would not want anyone even theoretically be able to shut down the heating from my property. Even though all the plumbing in my house was renovated in 2007 and use new protected plastic piping, the connectors and the faucets are still metallic and vulnerable to freeze damage.
I have a separate garage/hobby building which still has old copper piping. A few winters back the heater blew a fuse and a part of the building went sub zero. I don't visit the hobby area too often during winter partly because I'm too lazy to remove the snow accumulated in the pathway so one day I open the door to get more antifreeze for my car window washer and I hear water splashing. I investigate further and to my surprise I have water gushing through the wall panels. I had to rip open the panel to plug the leak and to my horror the water had been spraying directly to a 400V high current power socket I have in the hobby room lol. I was lucky to escape that one without bigger damage.
