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Man sets self ablaze using chainsaw to open gas tank
Ottawa Citizen ^ | April 20, 2006 | Susan Mohammad

Posted on 04/20/2006 10:48:14 AM PDT by headsonpikes

An Ottawa man is in serious condition and was airlifted to the burn unit at Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre in Toronto after accidentally setting himself on fire yesterday morning while trying to cut open a gas tank with a chainsaw....

(Excerpt) Read more at canada.com ...


TOPICS: Local News
KEYWORDS: chainsaw; gastank; ouch; screamingalpha
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To: headsonpikes
We always go a little crazy up here come Cup time!

Why, is there some kind of annual replacement ritual up there?


21 posted on 04/20/2006 11:04:46 AM PDT by Toby06 (Make illegal immigration illegal!)
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To: headsonpikes; fanfan; martin_fierro


Red Green: There are two kinds of people: those who do things and those who write manuals.
22 posted on 04/20/2006 11:05:02 AM PDT by sully777 (wWBBD: What would Brian Boitano do?)
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To: null and void

"Headline? I thought it was the whole story!"




Okay, here's the rest for the link-averse:


The Ottawa Fire Department said 62-year-old Stanley Hill had been doing some cleanup work on a rural property at 4679 Ridge Rd., off Walkley Road, about 10 a.m. when, they believe, a spark from the saw caused a small explosion and a flash of fire to spread up his body and head.

Mr. Hill put out the fire. He drove himself about 100 meters across the road to a farmhouse where a startled female resident called 911. Paramedics treated him for second- and third-degree burns to his face, head, chest, back, arms and legs.

Mr. Hill was able to tell paramedics what had happened.

The black GMC pickup truck he used to go across the street for help sat in the driveway yesterday afternoon. Ottawa police were still on the scene, where old cars and farm equipment, rusted to a red skeleton, lay strewn around the patch of scorched grass where a small fire had been started after the incident.

J.P. Trottier, a spokesman for Ottawa Paramedic Services, said the man was likely hired to do maintenance work on the property and was alone when the incident occurred.

"His condition this morning was serious," he said, adding such injuries tend to worsen. Mr. Trottier said he couldn't comment further on the man's condition, or the extent of his injuries, but did say the man was able to talk to medics.

"He (said) a spark from the chainsaw ignited the fuel. It just went up. I know he took off some of his clothes, because they were burning."

Ottawa District Fire Chief Lyle Fraser said he doubts the man will be released from hospital soon, adding that Mr. Hill was first taken to the General campus of the Ottawa Hospital for "fairly extensive burns."

"I couldn't see them releasing him soon. There's always a risk of infection, too," he said.

Fire officials believed they were responding to an explosion, and Mr. Fraser said several trucks were sent, but the small fire behind the shed was put out quickly.

At the scene, Ottawa police Sgt. Wayne Bell said the incident was ruled as an accident. He also said the machine shed and farmhouse across the road sits on property owned by the National Capital Commission, but is being leased by a long-time resident.

There was no property damage as a result of the fire.

© The Ottawa Citizen 2006


23 posted on 04/20/2006 11:07:11 AM PDT by headsonpikes (Genocide is the highest sacrament of socialism.)
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To: headsonpikes

I meant with a headline like that, who needs the rest of the story...


24 posted on 04/20/2006 11:10:53 AM PDT by null and void (America: It's too late to work within the system, but it's too early to start shooting the bastards.)
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To: null and void

I like the very last line of the story, evidently designed to put our fears to rest:

"There was no property damage as a result of the fire."

That reporter has Montgomery Burns-style priorities!


25 posted on 04/20/2006 11:26:27 AM PDT by headsonpikes (Genocide is the highest sacrament of socialism.)
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To: headsonpikes

Hold muh beer!


26 posted on 04/20/2006 12:04:29 PM PDT by Born Conservative (Chronic Positivity - http://jsher.livejournal.com/)
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To: stylecouncilor

I guess he didn't think it through enough.


27 posted on 04/20/2006 12:48:27 PM PDT by windcliff
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To: headsonpikes; Great Dane; Alberta's Child; coteblanche; Ryle; albertabound; mitchbert; ...

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28 posted on 04/20/2006 2:08:56 PM PDT by Clive
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To: fanfan

This guy has to be a Liberal voter!


29 posted on 04/20/2006 3:29:32 PM PDT by Fair Go
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To: Fair Go
Nah!

NDP.
30 posted on 04/20/2006 4:14:47 PM PDT by fanfan (FR is the best/biggest news gathering entity in the whole known history of the world. Thanks Jim.)
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To: fanfan

I overlooked them.


31 posted on 04/20/2006 4:18:01 PM PDT by Fair Go
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To: Fair Go
I'd say he's Liberal leadership material!
32 posted on 04/20/2006 5:56:59 PM PDT by Heatseeker (Never underestimate the left's tendency to underestimate us.)
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To: headsonpikes
Mrs. Stanley Hill prays for hubbies recovery.

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33 posted on 04/21/2006 6:19:29 AM PDT by Candor7 (Into Liberal Flatulence Goes the Hope of the West)
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