Archive for the ‘Fire’ Category
Thursday, October 7th, 2010
Wife set fire to husband to “purify his penis,” court told – Monsters and Critics:
An Australian set her husband’s genitals alight because she suspected he was having an affair and wanted to ‘purify his penis,’ a court in Adelaide was told Thursday.
Rajini Narayan, 46, has pleaded not guilty to murdering her husband and causing the fire that burned down their 1-million-Australian-dollar (980,000-US-dollar) home.
Satish Narayan died in hospital from his injuries several weeks after being allegedly doused with methylated spirits and set alight in the 2008 attack.
‘He was my hero, the man of my life, the love of my life,’ the mother-of-three told the court. ‘I was going to purify his penis, leave a mark there and he would remain with me. He would be mine.’
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Monday, September 13th, 2010
Fired Domino’s pizza worker torches two of chain’s stores: authorities:
Guess he likes his crust crispy and burnt.
A pyromaniac pizza-maker fired from his job at Domino’s decided to turn up the heat on his former employer — torching two of the chain’s Bronx restaurants by setting fire to pizza boxes, authorities said today.
The antics of accused arsonist Jamal Thomas threatened the life of at least one person and cost Domino’s more than $1 million in building damage and lost business, according to FDNY officials.
“Domino’s is a terrible place to work,” griped Thomas, 24, to authorities after his bust, according to court papers.
“They didn’t treat me right. They are terrible to workers. I was punched at work, and nobody helped me.”
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Friday, September 3rd, 2010
Ferrari Recalls 1,248 Cars due to Fire Hazard
Ferrari says it is recalling 1,248 of its 458 Italia supercars after reports of fires breaking out in five of the luxury vehicles in several countries.
The Italian carmaker said Thursday it wants to replace an adhesive that in some circumstances can melt due to overheating and possibly ignite.
Fires in the car that sells for euro197,000 ($253,000) have been reported in California, Switzerland, China and France.
Ferrari spokesman Stefano Lai says the company will be asking the owners of 1,248 cars produced before July 2010 to bring them in to have the glue replaced with mechanical fasteners.
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Monday, June 7th, 2010
Flame-throwing elephants clash with humans over resources in Bangladesh | Herald Sun:
AN increasing number of humans are being killed by wild elephants each year in Bangladesh – with many of the fatalities occurring because people settle in the animals’ migration corridors.
Bangladesh is home to only an estimated 227 wild Asian elephants, but up to 100 more migrate through the country each year, mostly through the north and northeast, according to the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN).
As more people in Bangladesh, one of the world’s most densely populated nations, settle in the elephant corridor areas, they are more likely to be attacked by confused, angry pachyderms.
There are now hundreds of villages along the densely-forested Indian border and residents of the area say they frequently have to drive away herds of wild elephants that come to raid their paddy fields and fruit trees.
During harvesting season, the villagers form night patrols and use kerosene torches, firecrackers and drums to drive the elephants away, but these efforts are becoming increasingly futile.
Tribal leader Luise Neng Minja said the elephants, which shelter in the forest during the day and come down to villages at night, used to flee but now they are no longer so scared.
“I’ve seen an elephant snatch a torch from a man with its trunk while we were driving away a herd, and throw the flame on a house, setting it on fire,” said Luise, 51.
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Saturday, February 13th, 2010
Extra human bones found in fire pit with murder victim
An extra fibula and jawbone have investigators wondering who else was burned in the fire pit where Andrew and Elizabeth Hawes are believed to have taken their brother’s body after he was brutally murdered at his Andover home.
The bones, including the partial remains of Edwin Hawes, were discovered more than a year ago when police officers checked out an illegally burning bonfire on Andrew Hawes’ farm in Cottonwood County, nearly 200 miles from the Twin Cities.
When the medical examiner and a forensic anthropologist reconstructed Edwin Hawes’ remains, they discovered three extra human bones.
Mixed in the fire pit were a left eye orbit, a fibula and part of a lower jaw.
It wasn’t until three months ago that the Cottonwood County sheriff’s office was notified about them, which triggered a fresh search of the fire pit.
Deputies found several small bone fragments, according to the search warrant filed in Cottonwood County in November.
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Thursday, January 28th, 2010
Man dies after setting himself on fire outside fur store
A man set himself on fire after pouring gasoline on himself outside Nicholas Ungar Furs at 12th and Yamhill Wednesday morning before police used a fire extinguisher to put out the flames.
He later died from his injuries at the hospital, police said.
The man was identified as 26-year-old Daniel Shaull from Kansas, according to the Multnomah County medical examiner.
It was not immediately clear whether Shaull was protesting against the store, which has had problem with animal rights activists in the past, but witnesses said he was screaming about the treatment of animals.
“There are animals dying! Animals dying!” witnesses said Shaull was screaming as flames engulfed his body and shot above his head.
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Thursday, January 21st, 2010
N.J. bowling manager charged after rival lanes burn
Hardcore bowlers don’t just call their main alley their lanes — it’s their house.
A beloved house burned down last week after 50 years on the edge of Vineland, a city in a part of New Jersey far from the historical home of the mob and the teeming chaos of the shore, a place where the state nickname, the Garden State, seems apt.
Sadness turned to anger Wednesday, when authorities announced that the manager of a rival bowling alley, the only other one in Cumberland County, had been charged with arson in the destruction of Loyle Lanes.
Steven Smink, the lessee-manager of Pike Lanes Family Fun Center in Deerfield, hired another man, Felix Manzano, 21, and a teenager to torch Loyle Lanes, police said.
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Tuesday, December 29th, 2009
22 and counting: Mystery fires rattle Houston:
A four-foot pile of ash and charred debris is all that remains of the Rodriguez family’s two-story garage, which had been stuffed with tools, machinery, couches and appliances when a mysterious fire ripped through it earlier this month.
It was the 22nd arson that has taken place since August in a historic Houston neighborhood called the Heights, known more for its comforting small-town feel in the midst of big city sprawl than for being the center of criminal activity.
Most of the fires have taken place in the middle of the night and nearly always in abandoned structures, though flames have leapt to some adjacent occupied homes, frightening residents like the Rodriguez family.
“I just don’t know when they are going to catch this guy,” a dejected Jesus Rodriguez said as he stood over his truck’s pickup bed, dirtied by ash and scorched pieces of wood after it had been used to haul away the debris.
Authorities charged a suspect last month for starting one of the blazes. But he has not been charged with any of the other arsons and the fires continued even after his arrest.
Residents of the Heights, which sits on one of Houston’s rare hills overlooking nearby downtown, have taken some comfort no one has been hurt. But they worry their property could be next.
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Thursday, December 24th, 2009
McDuffie man hit wrong house with firebomb, authorities say:
Authorities say Robert Holt, 25, wanted to get back at his old girlfriend by throwing a Molotov cocktail through the window of her home.
But he got the wrong house. He is being held today without bond, charged with throwing the firebomb through the window of a Dell Drive house on Sunday night.
Mr. Holt was taken into custody shortly after the incident by officers with the Thomson Police Department.
He has been arrested on a number of charges in recent months, authorities say, and is now facing charges of arson in the first-degree, four counts of aggravated assault and possession of an explosive device, according to police records.
Each charge is a felony.
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Saturday, November 21st, 2009
Victims not talking in Montreal café attacks
Who’s been firebombing all those Italian cafés in Montreal? The answer police have been getting so far: silenzio.
Police are stumped as to why at least five bars in the city have been hit by Molotov cocktails in less than a month, but it’s clear that the victims don’t want to talk.
The head of the Montreal police arson squad said his detectives are mulling a number of theories, but, with merchants remaining mute, all they have are hypotheses.
There’s the possibility that a Mafia war has erupted. Or perhaps a brazen street gang is trying to move in on the Mob’s turf. Or maybe rival gangs are battling among themselves. Police have even considered an arsonist with a particular penchant for putting latté-makers out of business.
“None of the hypotheses have been set aside, but none have been validated for the time being, either,” said Cmdr. Robert Quevillon, who heads the police arson and economic crimes unit.
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Friday, August 21st, 2009
‘Blink and you’ll miss it’: World record firework display fails to set Bournemouth alight
An explosive world record attempt came under fire today as a barge carrying fireworks appeared to blow up and burst into flames.
Around 175,000 people turned up for Roar on the Shore to see 110,000 fireworks set off in under 60 seconds from the barge between Bournemouth and Boscombe piers in Dorset last night.
But instead of rockets shooting to the skies, the event was over in about six seconds as the metal barge appeared to explode, with flames spreading across the deck. Visitors were then left facing delays of up to three hours to leave the town as the roads became gridlocked. Ruth Downing, 33, from Bournemouth, said: ‘It looked like the barge just exploded and then caught fire. I think the wind might have caused problems.
‘It was very disappointing not so much a roar as a growl. We thought it would be rockets exploding in the sky in this amazing fireworks display, but instead if you blinked you would have missed it. ‘It was just a big bang, a blinding flash and then flames. That was probably the most exciting bit because it looked like the barge was on fire.’
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Friday, August 14th, 2009
Teen Sets Self On Fire To Imitate YouTube Clip
A Deltona teenager was hospitalized on Wednesday after suffering multiple burns while imitating a video posted on YouTube.
Russell Gortzig Russell Gortzig, 13, said his friend siphoned gasoline from a riding lawnmower and poured it on Gortzig.
The teen said he held the lighter away from him, but a combination of the spark and fumes caught his shorts on fire.
“Skin missing all the way down to his ankle on the front and the back,” mother Linda McCrea said.
McCrea said the boys were trying to copy a stunt they saw on the video sharing Web site, YouTube, where a man in a banana suit lights himself on fire.
She warned other parents to closely monitor the online activities of their children and wants YouTube to tighten its user guidelines.
She believes YouTube is partially to blame for her son’ pain.
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Wednesday, June 3rd, 2009
Westville man charged with fouling Gloucester Township building with fire and feces
A Westville man who reportedly couldn’t pay his bar tab wound up being charged with using his own feces to draw on the walls and set fire to a bathroom in the police station.
Police were called at 2:55 a.m. Sunday when Jason Detora, 24, couldn’t pay his bar tab at Skeeters Pub on the Black Horse Pike in Blenheim.
Detora told officers his girlfriend was on her way with money so he could pay, police said. Nicole Leadbeater, 22, of the same address as Detora, arrived at Skeeters.
Officers spoke with her in the parking lot and charged her with driving while intoxicated and on outstanding warrants from Pitman, said police.
She was taken to police headquarters to be processed and Detora was taken, too, as a courtesy, police said, so he could wait there for another ride.
Once at the police station, Detora allegedly used a rest room, but when he came out, a patrolman noticed an odor coming from the men’s room.
Police found toilet paper and paper towels had been piled up and set on fire in the bathroom. Detora allegedly had defecated on the floor and used his own feces to draw on the walls, said police.
Detora was charged with arson and criminal mischief and committed to the Camden County Jail in Camden in default of $35,000 bail.
Hat tip to Kara!
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Tuesday, March 24th, 2009
Firms working with Colo. family with flaming water:
A Fort Lupton family who can light their water on fire because of gas seeping into their house expect to get some help from two companies with natural gas wells in the area.
Amee Ellsworth says she met Friday with Anadarko Petroleum Corp. and Noble Energy Inc. The companies have pledged to provide water for the family and are looking at possibly installing a water-treatment system.
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The state has been investigating the problem since last fall. Inspectors say the gas is coming from gas operations but they haven’t found the source.
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Saturday, December 27th, 2008
Man Sets Self on Fire During Stunt to Impress Date
A Swedish man’s attempt to impress his date went horribly awry Friday, as he ended up lighting himself on fire and going into shock. The 33-year-old man also faces allegations of endangering the public as he recovers from serious burn injuries in a hospital in Vastervik, The Local reported. The unidentified man’s girlfriend said he was attempting a stunt when he poured gasoline over his arm and set the fuel on fire. “It obviously didn’t go well. He burned his arm and other parts of his body and was in a state of shock,” Kalmar police spokesperson Reine Johansson told the TT news agency. “Don’t ask me what the point of the trick was supposed to be.”
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Saturday, October 4th, 2008
Firebomb Tossed Into Colorado Frat House; Brawl Follows
Someone tossed a firebomb into a fraternity house about a block from the University of Colorado, setting off a brawl in a nearby alley that sent one man to the hospital, police said.
The firebomb early Friday caused no injuries or significant damage, and residents had put the blaze out by the time firefighters arrived, police spokeswoman Sarah Huntley said.
Huntley said it was probably not a hate crime, but more likely stemmed from a feud between the fraternity and residents of a nearby apartment or with another fraternity. No arrests had been made, and police had no individual suspects.
A jug of charcoal starter fluid with a burning firecracker attached was thrown into the Sigma Alpha Epsilon house through an open door about 2:15 a.m., Huntley said. Someone inside pushed it back out with a wet mop.
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Monday, July 21st, 2008
Man blows up apartment spraying for bugs
A New Jersey man trying to exterminate insects in his apartment blew it up instead, the New York Daily News reported on Monday.
Isias Vidal Maceda was unhurt in the incident, but 80 percent of his apartment was destroyed, Eatontown, New Jersey police told the newspaper.
The accident occurred as Maceda was spraying for pests in his kitchen. Somehow the bug spray ignited a blast that blew out the apartment’s front windows and triggered a fire that quickly spread, the newspaper said.
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Thursday, July 10th, 2008
Earthquake Destroyed China’s Largest Military Armory, Says Source
A high-level Chinese military source secretly disclosed last week that the recent earthquake in Sichuan Province caused a chain-reaction of explosions in the Sichuan mountain areas. The explosions destroyed Chinese army’s largest armory, new weapon test bases and part of nuclear facilities including several nuclear warheads. This information is considered China’s top military secret.
After the earthquake, Chinese authorities had ignored the disaster victim’s initial calls for help. Only after the first critical 72 hours had passed did the authorities allow international aid to be delivered to the disaster region. Military analysts believe that this delay occurred because Mianyang City of Sichuan Province is one of important areas for the Chinese military nuclear industries and also its largest armory. The Chinese regime did not want potential spies from the outside world in this very sensitive military area during a time when there may have been a nuclear accident.
“I went to see the site of the explosion again. Villagers on the road told me, ‘These concrete blocks and soil were from the explosion,’” said a medical team member. (Photo provided by mainland Chinese Internet Users)
According to sources, a nuclear accident did happen. On June 27, the Chinese military disclosed that 2,700 chemical cleanup workers had been sent to earthquake disaster areas for nuclear chemical emergency rescue.
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Saturday, July 5th, 2008
Three charged with murder after 17-year-old boy is tied to tree, forced to drink petrol and set alight
A teenager died after he was tied to a tree and made to drink petrol before being set on fire, police revealed yesterday.
Simon Everitt died from inhaling some of the fluid, a post-mortem examination found.
The 17-year-old engineering student had been missing for three weeks before his body was discovered buried in a ditch last Saturday.
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Tuesday, July 1st, 2008
Romulus man burned in blast
An Amish man suffered burns on 75 percent of his body after a large gas tank exploded on his Yerkes Road farm late Monday morning.
Seneca County sheriff investigators said that the man, Samuel L. Byler, 25, lit a match near a 175-gallon fuel tank on his farm at 2081 Yerkes Road, igniting vapors inside and causing it to explode about 11:30 a.m.
Byler, who suffered burns on much of his body, was treated at the scene by EMTs and then transported by Mercy Flight to Strong Memorial Hospital, where he was listed in guarded condition this morning in the burn unit.
Byler suffered third-degree burns on his hands and chest, the sheriff’s department said.
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Monday, June 9th, 2008
Evidence in Massive Texas Governor’s Mansion Fire Points to Arson
Arson is suspected in a fire that swept through the historic Texas Governor’s Mansion early Sunday and left much of the 152-year-old home charred and severely damaged, the state fire marshal said.
“We have some evidence that indicates that we do have an intentionally set fire,” said state Fire Marshal Paul Maldonado. “So we believe that we may be looking at a criminal act here.”
Calling it a “devastating loss to the state of Texas,” Maldonado did not offer details on how the fire may have been set or whether authorities had identified a suspect.
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Saturday, June 7th, 2008
Shed ignites as bees doused
Twenty-six-year-old Joshua Mullen meant to kill the bees infesting his utility shed Wednesday, but he ended up causing a small explosion, burning the shed to cinders and causing about $80,000 in damage to his Midtown home, according to fire officials.
“There were no injuries, unless you count the bees,” said Mobile Fire-Rescue spokesman Steve Huffman.
Mullen said that, in an attempt to rid his utility shed of bees, he dumped about a drinking-glass-size amount of gasoline on some towels the bees were swarming around. He walked away to pick up some trash in the yard and heard a “whoosh.”
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Friday, June 6th, 2008
Fire officials say hoarded gasoline led to fire
Authorities say a couple trying to beat the high cost of gasoline accidentally caused a fire that burned their apartment complex.
Fire Chief Richard Arruda says the couple had about 45 gallons of gasoline in nine plastic jugs stacked in a closet that also housed an air conditioning unit.
The gasoline fumes apparently set off Thursday’s fire, which was quickly put out by a sprinkler system.
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Friday, May 16th, 2008
Angry flight attendant charged with setting fire on plane
A flight attendant angry about his work route smuggled a lighter aboard an airplane and set a fire in a bathroom, forcing an emergency landing, authorities said Thursday.
The Compass Airlines flight carrying 72 passengers and four crew members landed safely in Fargo on May 7 after smoke filled the back. No injuries were reported. The plane was flying from Minneapolis to Regina, Saskatchewan, authorities said.
Eder Rojas, 19, appeared in court Thursday, following his arrest a day earlier in Minneapolis, and was ordered held without bail, prosecutors said. The charge of setting fire aboard a civil aircraft carries a maximum penalty of 20 years in prison.
His public defender did not return a phone call seeking comment. Assistant U.S. Attorney Lynn Jordheim, who is prosecuting the case in Fargo, would not comment.
Court documents said Rojas, of the Twin Cities suburb of Woodbury, told authorities he was upset at the airline for making him work the route. He is accused of taking a lighter with him through the security checkpoint, authorities said.
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Thursday, May 15th, 2008
Sikh student’s turban set ablaze during school fire drill
A routine fire drill at Hightstown High School in Mercer County turned terrifying for one student.
As students gathered outside on school grounds one morning last week, someone came up behind a 16-year-old junior, a member of the Sikh faith, and allegedly set the boy’s turban on fire.
His hair was singed in several places, but he was otherwise unhurt, according to his uncle, Harjot Pannu.
“He felt like a bee stung him, and he patted on it,” said Pannu. “Next thing he knew, a teacher came over and told him he was on fire.”
An 18-year-old Hightstown senior, Garrett Green, was arrested hours later and charged with arson and criminal mischief, said Ben Miller, an investigator with the Hightstown Police Department.
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Tuesday, May 13th, 2008
Cars Fried in Barbecue Blaze: How Not to Cook Sausages
Two men trying to barbecue on their balcony on Saturday evening ignored some elementary rules on sausage cooking, police said.
The men, enjoying the sunny spring weather with their wives, couldn’t get the coal to light with their lighter liquid so the 37-year-old host decided to pour a glass of petrol on it instead.
That did the trick. “The resulting darting flame made him drop the glass of petrol. That in turn startled his 28-year-old friend who dropped the petrol canister, which contained between three and five liters, onto the floor,” police in the southwestern German city of Kaiserslautern said in a statement.
The burning liquid ran off the balcony onto the host’s car which burst into flames. The fire then engulfed his wife’s car next to it as well another car parked on the other side.
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Sunday, May 4th, 2008
Massive Indian Chili-Pepper Fire Stings Throats, Eyes
A fire has broken out at one of India’s largest chili markets, burning hundreds of thousands of pounds of chili peppers and covering the nearby area with a cloud of stinging smoke.
Firefighters were still battling the blaze hours after it broke out Saturday morning. Officials have evacuated neighbors of the market in Guntur in the southern state of Andhra Pradesh.
Residents and officials say the burning chili smoke has stung the eyes and throats of people across the city.
“People are coughing uncontrollably,” says farmer Y. Venkateshwarulu.
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Thursday, February 21st, 2008
Protesters Storm U.S. Embassy in Serbia and Set Fire Over Kosovo Independence
Rioters stormed the U.S. embassy in Belgrade, Serbia, on Thursday and started a fire in protest of Kosovo’s declaration of independence earlier this week.
Serbian media said a charred body was found inside the embassy.
U.S. officials told FOX News that the embassy building was secured and the fire was extinguished, but angry demonstrators were still rioting well into the night. The mayhem came after a large organized protest against the situation in Kosovo.
Sources have provided conflicting reports on how extensive the breach of the U.S. Embassy was. Some told FOX News that no protesters made it into the building, which has been closed this week.
Other reports from The Associated Press noted masked attackers had gained entry and tried to throw furniture from an office. The reports also said a blaze had broken out inside one of the offices.
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Wednesday, February 20th, 2008
Danish police arrest almost 30 people in 8th night of youth violence
Nearly 30 people were arrested for setting fires to buildings, cars and trash bins in an eight consecutive night of youth violence in Danish cities, mostly in immigrant neighborhoods, police said Monday.
The violence appears to be subsiding after peaking over the weekend, police said.
It was not clear what triggered the unrest, which started on Feb. 10. Some observers say the youth are frustrated over police harassment and the reprinting of a cartoon lampooning the Prophet Muhammad.
Danish newspapers reproduced the drawing on Wednesday to show their commitment to free speech after police foiled an alleged plot to kill the cartoonist who created it.
About 90 fires were reported late Sunday in Copenhagen and other Danish cities, mostly small fires in trash bins and cars, police said. No one was injured.
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Tuesday, February 19th, 2008
Drunk man in ill-advised firewalking mishap
A drunk man in Wigan discovered the painful way that firewalking isn’t, in fact, terribly easy, as he suffered severely burned feet after trying to walk across a bonfire.
The 23-year-old man had reportedly been drinking with a group of young people, by a bonfire which they had started on playing fields by St Annes Primary School in Wigan.
As is the way of these things, it appears he was dared to walk across the flames. Naturally, he removed his shoes and socks and did so, according to Wigan Today.
He suffered serious burns, including an amount of melted plastic stuck to his skin, probably due to the fact that the bonfire had been built partially out of plastic bread trays.
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Tuesday, February 19th, 2008
Kosovo Serbs burn border points
Kosovo Serbs have set fire to two border crossings to protest against Kosovo’s declaration of independence.
The attacks took place at the northern Jarinje and Banja crossings, manned by United Nations and Kosovo police.
In response, Nato-led peacekeepers were deployed at the crossings. There have been no reports of any injuries so far.
This is the most serious incident since Kosovo declared independence from Serbia on Sunday, the BBC’s Nick Thorpe in Kosovo says.
Belgrade has said Kosovo’s declaration violates international law.
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Sunday, February 17th, 2008
Arrests on 7th night of unrest across Denmark
Angry youths who have been setting fires in immigrant neighborhoods across Denmark for seven consecutive nights should expect no sympathy from society, Prime Minister Anders Fogh Rasmussen said Sunday.
“I think it will be the opposite, that a lot of people will turn their backs on them,” the prime minister said in interview with Denmark’s TV2 news channel.
It was the first time he had commented publicly on the weeklong youth violence that has kept police and firefighters busy in cities across Denmark.
It’s not clear what triggered the unrest but some observers say youths from Denmark’s immigrant communities were protesting against perceived police harassment, and suggested Wednesday’s reprinting of a cartoon lampooning the Prophet Muhammad may have aggravated the situation.
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Tuesday, January 29th, 2008
Arrest in KOOP fire
A 24-year-old volunteer at community radio station 91.7 FM KOOP took his music so seriously that he set fire to the station when it didn’t play the songs on his playlist, Austin Fire Department Battalion Chief Greg Nye said.
Paul Webster Feinstein has been charged with second-degree felony arson and was being held Monday in the Travis County Central Booking Facility. If convicted, he could be sentenced to two to 20 years in prison and a fine of up to $10,000.
The fire Jan. 5 at 3823 Airport Blvd., Suite B, caused $300,000 in damage. The radio station was off the air for 19 days before broadcasting resumed Friday from studio space donated by Entercom Communications, which owns several other local stations.
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Tuesday, January 1st, 2008
Mob Torches Kenyan Church; 270 Killed in Election Riots
A mob torched a church sheltering hundreds of Kenyans fleeing election violence Tuesday, killing up to 50 people as four days of rioting and ethnic clashes marked some of the darkest times in this country’s history.
President Mwai Kibaki — sworn in Sunday in a vote that opponents say was rigged — said political parties should meet immediately and publicly call for calm. The opposition candidate, Raila Odinga, refused the offer.
“If he announces that he was not elected, then I will talk to him,” Odinga told The Associated Press. He accused the government of stoking the chaos, saying Kibaki’s administration “is guilty, directly, of genocide.”
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Tuesday, January 1st, 2008
372 French cars torched over “calm” New Year
Vandals torched 372 cars as France celebrated the New Year, down on the figure last year after a night the police described as “relatively calm”.
Cars are burned fairly regularly in France and the image of vehicles in flames in poor suburbs became symbolic of riots in 2005 when angry youths set fire to thousands of cars.
There is usually an increase in the number of cars torched on New Year’s Eve compared to other days of the year.
“The night was relatively calm, without notable incident, there were very few direct clashes with the security forces,” said a spokesman for the national police.
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Sunday, December 16th, 2007
Chief accused of drunk fire truck racing
A fire chief in Penobscot County has been charged with being drunk behind the wheel while driving a fire truck with its lights on and its sirens going.
Russell Banks of Burlington was arrested around midnight Saturday after a resident complained that Banks was racing a fire tanker by his home even though there was no fire in the area.
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Wednesday, October 3rd, 2007
Supernanny kids torch home
A FAMILY who enlisted the services of TV’s Supernanny to help them control their unruly children has been left homeless after their three-year-old apparently set fire to the living room.
Childcare guru Jo Frost spent two weeks with the Young family in 2005, teaching them how to reward good behaviour and to sit their children down on ” naughty stools ” when they misbehaved.
Now, just two years after Supernanny left the Young’s to practice their new disciplinary regime, three-year-old Joel allegedly started a fire in the living room with a kitchen stove lighter.
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Tuesday, September 11th, 2007
Radio Frequencies Help Burn Salt Water
An Erie cancer researcher has found a way to burn salt water, a novel invention that is being touted by one chemist as the “most remarkable” water science discovery in a century.
John Kanzius happened upon the discovery accidentally when he tried to desalinate seawater with a radio-frequency generator he developed to treat cancer. He discovered that as long as the salt water was exposed to the radio frequencies, it would burn.
The discovery has scientists excited by the prospect of using salt water, the most abundant resource on earth, as a fuel.
Rustum Roy, a Penn State University chemist, has held demonstrations at his State College lab to confirm his own observations.
The radio frequencies act to weaken the bonds between the elements that make up salt water, releasing the hydrogen, Roy said. Once ignited, the hydrogen will burn as long as it is exposed to the frequencies, he said.
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Saturday, September 8th, 2007
Woman Accused of Setting Fire Over Keys
A woman was arrested and charged with arson and burglary after police say she set fire to the home of a neighbor she thought had stolen her keys.
Sgt. Clint Riley of the Lane County Sheriff’s Office said the 23-year-old woman later found her keys hanging from her pants pocket.
The woman was being held in the Lane County Jail in lieu of $350,000 bail.
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Saturday, September 8th, 2007
Beer cans block Ohio man’s escape from burning house
A Cincinnati area man who died in a house fire early Wednesday morning may have survived if his escape had not been blocked by a large pile of beer cans.
Fire crews were called to the home near Cincinnati before 6 a.m. and found heavy smoke and fire coming from the structure.
“My daughter woke me up because her bedroom is over in the front of the house and she seen the flames on her window,” Wayne Kendrick said
Firefighters initially said no one was hurt, but one person, Robert McCarty, 37, was unaccounted for.
Crews working inside the home found McCarty’s body shortly after 10 a.m., and investigators said his exit was blocked by a 5-foot tall stack of beer cans.
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Saturday, August 25th, 2007
Hot Air Balloon Crashes in Canada
A hot air balloon caught fire and crashed in an RV park and campground Friday evening, injuring as many as 11 people, police and a witness said. Two other people were unaccounted for.
The cause of the accident wasn’t known. Weather conditions were clear at the time of the sunset flight. At least three 30-foot RVs caught fire, said Don Randall, a witness who lives in the RV park. No one was reported hurt in those blazes.
Witnesses said passengers screamed and jumped to the ground as the balloon’s basket caught fire. The balloon reportedly took off from a grassy field with 12 passengers.
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Wednesday, May 30th, 2007
Brits cheer as German towels burn
In a story that seems to confirm every national stereotype you could possibly hope for, a Welsh coach driver was cheered on by British tourists as he set fire to the towels that German holidaymakers had left on sunbeds.
Glyn Bowden, 55, was then arrested by the Italian police, only for them to let him go a few hours later after local hotel bosses intervened.
Bowden was the driver for a coach party of 55 Brits holidaying on the Italian Riviera. He became frustrated when German holidaymakers kept trying to reserve the best sunbeds at the private beach and pool at the Viana Marina.
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Sunday, May 20th, 2007
Diamonds tell tale of comet that killed off the cavemen
Scientists will outline dramatic evidence this week that suggests a comet exploded over the Earth nearly 13,000 years ago, creating a hail of fireballs that set fire to most of the northern hemisphere.
Primitive Stone Age cultures were destroyed and populations of mammoths and other large land animals, such as the mastodon, were wiped out. The blast also caused a major bout of climatic cooling that lasted 1,000 years and seriously disrupted the development of the early human civilisations that were emerging in Europe and Asia.
‘This comet set off a shock wave that changed Earth profoundly,’ said Arizona geophysicist Allen West. ‘It was about 2km-3km in diameter and broke up just before impact, setting off a series of explosions, each the equivalent of an atomic bomb blast. The result would have been hell on Earth. Most of the northern hemisphere would have been left on fire.’
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Sunday, May 6th, 2007
Hindenburg Survivors Mark 70th Anniversary of Crash
At 87, Robert Buchanan says he sometimes has trouble remembering what he did 10 minutes ago. But he can recall in vivid detail the day 70 years ago when he watched the luxurious airship Hindenburg erupt into a fireball.Flames roared across the surface of the mighty German dirigible only 100 or so feet above him, singeing his hair as he ran for his life.
“It was a piff-puff, just like someone would leave the gas on and not get the flame to it,” said Buchanan, one of the last living members of the ground crew waiting to help the Hindenburg land.
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Thursday, May 3rd, 2007
Indian couple burnt for ‘black magic’
AN elderly Indian husband and wife were burnt to death after villagers accused them of practising black magic, tied them together on a pyre and set them on fire. “The aged couple died screaming for help,” police superintendent P V KuMarch said. Sayanna, 70, and his 61-year-old wife, Pochamma, were set ablaze after being doused with kerosene.
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Sunday, April 29th, 2007
Tanker fire destroys part of MacArthur Maze / 2 freeways closed near Bay Bridge:
The heat of a dramatic gasoline tanker fire destroyed an overpass and closed two major roadways in the MacArthur Maze at the East Bay access to the Bay Bridge early this morning. A section of the roadway taking traffic from the Bay Bridge onto eastbound Interstate 580 fell onto the connector that brings East Bay traffic from Interstate 80 to Interstates 880 and 580. Lanes of 580 near the East Bay Municpal Utility District sewage treatment plant at the maze are draped like a blanket over the northeast edge of the freeway below with the corner tip touching the ground below that. The tanker, which was full of vehicle-ready gasoline, seems to have disappeared. One Caltrans worker at the scene held up his thumb and forefinger an inch apart to describe how big the tanker is now.
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Sunday, March 25th, 2007
10 Die After ‘Fire Show’ in Moscow Strip Club
Fire broke out in a Moscow striptease club early Sunday, killing 10 people, an Emergency Situations Ministry spokesman said. Talk About It: Post Thoughts The cause of the blaze had not been determined, but some witnesses said it broke out during a “fire show” that was part of the club’s nightly entertainment, said Yevgeny Bobylev, a spokesman for the Moscow division of the Ministry.
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