Can I light a fireplace with space logs?

I'm writing a short story in which my group of character is devising the stupidest and least practical way of lighting a fireplace.

It then came to my mind that stuff that undergo reentry gets hot. I am aware that this process might disintegrate the log, making all the trouble of putting said log into outer space meaningless, and in the event of the log actually reaching the fireplace, it might disintegrate the area anyway, but that would make it stupid and unpractical, and that's exactly what I want.

The log before reentry can go any speed from orbital to stationary relative to the ground below, and the height should be no more than 150km (93,2 Miles). Concerning size and material, it's a plain old log, what did you expect.

It has to be on fire when it lands (or rather impacts) and must reach the fireplace with at least half of it's mass. Actually getting it up there or the trouble of accuracy is out of the scope of this question, for our sanity sake.

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