Posted on 10/09/2014 2:23:27 PM PDT by BenLurkin
The cremation of an oversized body apparently helped set ablaze the roof of a crematory Wednesday when the smokestack overheated and set roofing material on fire.
The fire at Southside Cremation Services, in the 1600 block of Crump Street, started shortly after noon and was extinguished by Richmond and Henrico County fire crews by 12:43, according to the Henrico County Division of Fire.
Manager Jerry L. Hendrix Sr. said Wednesday afternoon that hes received a go-ahead to resume cremating an 800-pound cadaver that created excessive heat and oil during a cremation
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Burn Baby Burn......!!!!!!
We had a 800 person in my town. Too big to fit through
door
We had to chop hold in wall to get him out so could go to hospital
Too big for gurney and ambulance - we used a mattress strapped to flat bed tow truck
Look on nurses faces was classic when backed tow truck into ambulance emterance............
according to the article this was a special crematorium that handled large corpses.
I believe the Germans via the Siemens corp. patented at crematorium during WWII that utilized body fat to supplement the heat of combustion.
It’s like burning a couple of hundred pounds of chicken fat!
Perhaps they should have gone with an old fashioned outdoor pyre.
Flour and corn starch are explosive when dispersed in air.
Bad idea.
Little bit of baking soda is a great extinguishing agent.
If he was only 2/3 fat (533 pounds), that’s about 70 gallons of fat (if human fat is similar to pork fat).
No wonder it generated a conflagration.
Grease fire.
This can’t be true. Teddy Kennedy died years ago.
Hubby had one of those for years. Came home complaining about how his back was broke after the guy died and they had to cut a hole in the wall of the home to get him out.
Ah, yes. That’s the stuff.
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