Oh Christ-mas Tree. Oh, Major Fire Haz-ard

Today I am taking down the Christmas tree even though my husband and I had planned to take it down on New Year's Day in an end-of-holiday-tree-purging-ceremony. The tree is completely dry and dead, with lights all over it. What if one of the lights is faulty and explodes? We'd lose our house in an instantaneous inferno of holiday cheer.