My new character, Jessica Bloom, ended up gathering a lot of supplies, food, and gear in her starting shelter from looting the miniscule starting town that she had that happened to have a pawn shop and a lot of handy military gear. I was going through my gear, taking off all the stuff I was wearing to replace it with decent armor, when I found a flare gun and a bunch of ammo. Like an idiot, I had to run outside and find something to shoot with it. Circling around my base, I ended up finding a normal zombie between the character and my base. I pulled out the gun, grinned, and shot it at the zombie, barely missing! Which resulted in the flare hitting the base, starting it on fire, and destroying all of my gear inside.
Go me.