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To: raybbr
You should really be careful.

If those items are anything like pantyhose (synthetic made of oil products), one pair of pantyhose on fire puts off enough cyanide to kill at least 8 adults in an average room.

When I went into a house that had a fire in it without protection (SCBA, etc.) to make sure one of my friends could get out of the house, both she and I inhaled too much of the toxic fumes from a burning speciality chair-like pillow that was on fire and we were downstairs while the fire was upstairs.

Now we both have quite a time with asthma.

10 posted on 12/01/2004 6:00:41 AM PST by Freedom Dignity n Honor
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To: Freedom Dignity n Honor

Everything is made of plastic/oil these days. Burning Poly-Vinyl Chlordes (PVC's) are especially deadly. When mixed with water and heat they generate chlorine gas. Nothing rips apart alveoli faster than a lungful of chlorine gas. I tend to be very careful around fires at work.


12 posted on 12/01/2004 6:05:15 AM PST by raybbr
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