[Scan-DC] Loudoun Co House Fire

[hsgorden at comcast.net]

When I was a volunteer at Kensington Company #5 many years ago, a gud portion of fires were due to poor maintance of chimneys - home owners would burn both real and artificial wood and never clean out the flu - 

from the chimneys sparks would jump to the 2nd & 3rd stories of a home and catch them on fire!!! 



Everyone should have a happy and safe New Year! 



>From my family to yours! 



73 

Howard 

W3CQH 




----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Doug Kitchener" <oldsdoug at hotmail.com> 
To: scan-dc at mailman.qth.net 
Sent: Wednesday, December 30, 2009 10:44:05 AM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern 
Subject: Re: [Scan-DC] Loudoun Co House Fire 


Dunno about the numbers but it wouldn't surprise me.  Guy I work with is a volunteer at Wheaton Rescue, he mentioned a statistic the other day about one in eight fires around xmas involving Xmas trees or decorations, or something... dang, I can't remember the exact quote... but I'd guess that fires might increase during the holidays because of decorations, candles, dry trees, things like that... 

Of course, the one at your place was evidently a "drar far", which doesn't help to support my dissertation! 

DK 

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> From: w4jecom at w4je.com 
> To: freqhopping at earthlink.net 
> Date: Wed, 30 Dec 2009 07:56:17 -0500 
> CC: scan-dc at mailman.qth.net 
> Subject: Re: [Scan-DC] Loudoun Co House Fire 
> 
> Is it my imagination or has there been a surge in fires over the last 
> week (including the one in my own building!)? 
                                                
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