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http://washingtontimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070717/METRO/1071
70036/1004

As copper prices skyrocket, so do vandals' deaths
ASSOCIATED PRESS
July 17, 2007 

PASADENA, Md. — Firefighters weren't sure what was causing the smoke
rising from a former discount store in this Baltimore suburb. The place
had been abandoned for years, the interior stripped to the walls.

When they got inside July 2, they found only one thing burning: a
41-year-old man who became engulfed in flames and died after cutting
through a high-voltage line.
....

Mr. Phelps, a father of nine and a former long-haul trucker who family
members say was trying to scavenge scrap metal to help support his
family, was found alone in the empty building, next to a set of bolt
cutters, a police scanner and the store's lone remaining electrical
panel. He wrongly assumed the power would be off, authorities say.