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Posted on 11/25/2012 3:07:29 PM PST by Arthurio
An Oxon Hill man was critically injured when he tried to pour kerosene into a lighted space heater in his living room early Sunday, fire officials said.
The 50-year-old man, who was not immediately identified, suffered burns to 70 to 80 percent of his body, according to Prince George’s County Fire Chief Marc Bashoor. He said the burns included respiratory damage that is difficult to survive.
Firefighters were summoned to the single-family home in the 5100 block of Boulder Drive at 5:15 a.m. to find that the kerosene had ignited the area of the living room surrounding the heater. The man’s wife had escaped the house, Bashoor said, but the man had not.
Bashoor cautioned against filling space heaters indoors or when they already have been lighted.
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Feel bad for the poor man. But seeing these types of stories helps explain how Obama was re-elected.
You can still buy kerosene? I thought it had been outlawed years ago....
No cure for stupid but disaster and death!
Did his Obama photo and Obama phones survive?
I’m blaming demon rum, possibly pot...... did they pass a medical marijuana bill in Maryland?
The kerosene can did it. Now comes the law suit.
The only way this could have been more stupid
would have been if he had been on oxygen at the
same time.
These days there is a pill for everything but there is no pill for stupid
Rabbit poop works fairly well, takes a while though.
No, kerosene still exists and is sold as fuel for heaters and lamps, both in jugs and from pumps at specialty fuel stations.
Sounds like something is missing from this account. Kerosene’s flash point (where it generates a high enough concentration of its fumes in air that it would support a flame) is well above 100 degrees F, and it won’t ignite or keep burning without the action of something like a wick that allows the local temperature to be kept above that flash point. It would be very difficult to start an accidental fire by spilling kerosene. If this were gasoline or a kerosene-gasoline mix, that would be a different story.
Maybe in some states but I keep a kerosene heater around plus 5 gallons of deodorized kerosene for it in case of emergency.
Here in Wasilla Alaska you can buy a modern kerosene heater at Walmart or any hardware store, the kerosene itself is about $45 for 5 gallons.
Wow.
Okay... there is stupid and then there is HowDidYouLiveThisLong Stupid?
A couple of years ago Home Depot was selling kerosene for $45 per 5 gal can. They didn’t sell many.
I’m surprised he made it to 50.
That sounds excessively pricey.
“Dumb Ways to Die” ping ...
He just wanted to stake his candidacy for the Darwin Awards.
Looks like they just updated the story. The man apparently has died from his injuries. RIP.
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