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The weekly newsletter for Fed2 by ibgamesEARTHDATE: February 21, 2010
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REAL LIFE NEWS: HOW NOT TO CLEAR ICICLESby HazedA fire gutted a house last week after the owner decided the best way to melt icicles off the gutters was with a blow torch. Not a sensible move! It happened in Buechel, Louisville. The fire did not take hold right away: the heat from the blow torch caused a fire in the roof which smoldered undetected before later reaching the attic and spreading. 30 firefighters took a little more than half an hour to bring the resulting blaze under control. The fire left the home severely damaged, with a third of the roof having collapsed. Luckily, nobody was injured because the family that lived there was not home. The news report I read did not say whether the idiot with the blowtorch was one of the people living there. If he was, he won't be there now, because it's been left uninhabitable. |
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