Posted on 12/04/2021 1:43:17 PM PST by BenLurkin
What started as an attempt to get rid of pesky creatures ended with an entire house going up in flames.
A house of nearly 10,000 square feet in Dickerson, Maryland, an hour west of Baltimore, was engulfed in flames on November 23 when the homeowner tried to smoke out a snake infestation on the property, Pete Piringer, chief spokesperson for the Montgomery County Fire & Rescue Service, told CNN.
Coals were used as the heat source for the smoke, but they were placed too close to combustible materials, eventually setting the house on fire, Piringer explained.
The fire started in the basement and quickly spread through each floor, engulfing the multistory home...
Piringer told CNN that the owner was at home a few hours before, but luckily no one was there at the start of the fire. A neighbor passing by saw the smoke and called 911. At around 10 p.m., 75 firefighters showed up at the scene to battle the blaze.
It took a few hours for firefighters to get the fire under control, but it wasn't completely out until the next morning.
The damages will cost more than $1 million, Piringer said. The house was recently purchased for $1.8 million, according to public records.
The fire department deemed the incident an accident as there was no evidence, or intention, of starting the fire.
Piringer recommends using other ways to battle an infestation.
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Well it worked didn’t it.
More money than brains.
Hold muh gas.
“Piringer recommends using other ways to battle an infestation.”
Understatement of 2021.
At least they didn’t nuke it from orbit.
This place is a lot closer to Washington, DC than it is Baltimore.
Snake infestation in a $1.8M home? I don’t buy it. Something fishy.
That’s one way to do it…
10,000 sq ft? That must have made quite a bonfire.
Nobody’s mentioned the old canard about using moth balls to keep snakes away yet?
Bulldozing the place and seeding the ground with highly radioactive waste worked at Chernobyl. Just gotta think outside the box, people.
The house was recently purchased for $1.8M but no inspection was done that would have revealed a snake infestation to the prospective buyer?
Somebody able to invest in a $1.8M residence decides to forego a professional exterminator service and decides to solve their snake problem on the cheap?
We had to destroy the house to save it.
More money than brains.
Put another way: more dollars than sense.
Kinda jumped out at me as well...
Well, it’s a blue state.
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