The weekly newsletter for Fed2 by ibgames

EARTHDATE: February 21, 2010

Official News page 10


REAL LIFE NEWS: HOW NOT TO CLEAR ICICLES

by Hazed

A 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.

Fed2 Star index Previous issues Fed 2 home page