Posted on 10/02/2024 10:20:03 AM PDT by DallasBiff
Upon arrival, fire officials determined the fire began in the garage and spread to the attic of the home. The residents made it out safely and no injuries have been reported.
The cause of the fire is still under investigation.
(Excerpt) Read more at yahoo.com ...
Looks like they had furniture stacked in there.
Firefighters put out a house fire?
This is news?
Does knocking down a fire basically mean they extinguished it?
Never heard it described that way before.
I know, but back in the 60's and 70's there were warnings about turpentine soaked rags, now there is news of EV's catching on fire.
Can one find turpentine anymore?
“Can one find turpentine anymore?”
Lowes, Home Depot, Ace, Tractor Supply, Walmart and dozens of others ...
“Well was the garage full of turpentine or an EV?”.
No EV.
“Looks like they had furniture stacked in there.”
Furniture plus large fan. Volatile fumes!
Turpentine always smelled strong when one opened up the gallon can.
Pine Sol used to be based on undistilled turpentine. Looks like it is alcohol based now.
“Pine Sol used to be based on undistilled turpentine. Looks like it is alcohol based now.”
What are the ingredients in Original Pine-Sol® Multi -1-Surface Cleaner? l
Water, C10-12 alcohol ethoxylates ...
Pone-Sol.com FAQS
” ... undistilled turpentine ... “
By definition turpentine is distilled.
Pine-Sol used pine oil.
Pine oil is an essential oil obtained from a variety of species of pine, particularly Pinus sylvestris. Typically, parts of the trees that are not used for lumber — stumps, etc. — are ground and subjected to steam distillation.[2] As of 1995, synthetic pine oil was the “biggest single turpentine derivative.”[3] Synthetic pine oils accounted for 90% of sales as of 2000.[4]
Composition
Pine oil is a higher boiling fraction from turpentine.1
I can ignore this and usually choose to do just that. I’m just curious though, why is this relevant to national news? Houses burn every day. Why was this one special and note worthy? Most of us don’t need to know everything and things that hardly made local notice were once just life, not worthy of all of us knowing about them.
Let’s ask Johnny the shoeshine guy.
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Fireman bribing Johnny for help in extinguishing a furniture warehouse fire at 06:35.
“knocking down a fire” is very common usage.
Oil soaked rags can self ignite. Learned that when I was 14 working at a gas station!
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