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'Overly obese' body starts funeral home fire
WCPO ^
| 04/27/2017
| WCPO Staff
Posted on 04/27/2017 11:58:38 AM PDT by DFG
CINCINNATI -- A "freak accident" started an unscheduled fire Wednesday night at the Hillside Chapel Crematory in Cincinnati, owner Don Catchen said.
"My operator was in the process of cremating remains and (the body) was overly obese and apparently it got a little hotter than the unit is supposed to get," Catchen said. "One of the cremation containers that we had close got caught on fire and that's what burnt."
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TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: cincinnati; cremation; crematory
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posted on
04/27/2017 11:58:38 AM PDT
by
DFG
To: DFG
Now the fat’s in the fire!
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posted on
04/27/2017 12:00:37 PM PDT
by
NonValueAdded
(#DeplorableMe #BitterClinger #HillNO! #cishet #MyPresident #MAGA #Winning)
To: DFG
Fat burns hot. Always has. Shouldn’t be a new revelation.
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posted on
04/27/2017 12:02:13 PM PDT
by
WKUHilltopper
(WKU 2016 Boca Raton Bowl Champions)
To: DFG
Could they not use a band saw and only cremate half at a time?
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posted on
04/27/2017 12:02:51 PM PDT
by
posterchild
(Treade a worme on the tayle, and it must turne agayne.)
To: NonValueAdded
If that had happened with my body half of Ohio would be burned to the ground.
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posted on
04/27/2017 12:03:49 PM PDT
by
dp0622
(IThe only thing an upper crust Conservative hates more than a liberal is a middle class conservative)
To: DFG
Reminds me of the story of how Henry VIII's body exploded in his coffin, and how supposedly, dogs were present to lick up the mess.
Henry VIII Exploded In His Coffin
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posted on
04/27/2017 12:05:43 PM PDT
by
mass55th
(Courage is being scared to death - but saddling up anyway...John Wayne)
To: DFG
And the remains were scheduled to be spread over Nebraska.
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posted on
04/27/2017 12:05:58 PM PDT
by
LydiaLong
To: DFG
I have heard of this happening. Ugh! What a gruesome business.
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posted on
04/27/2017 12:06:26 PM PDT
by
Southside_Chicago_Republican
(If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.)
To: DFG
Catchen said his business at 525 Martin Luther King Drive is "fine".. You know what they say in real estate: Location Location Location.
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posted on
04/27/2017 12:06:35 PM PDT
by
Ezekiel
(All who mourn(ed!) the destruction of America merit the celebration of her rebirth.)
To: posterchild
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posted on
04/27/2017 12:07:17 PM PDT
by
Red Badger
(Profanity is the sound of an ignorant mind trying to express itself.............)
To: WKUHilltopper
All those calories had to go somewhere.
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posted on
04/27/2017 12:09:22 PM PDT
by
HiTech RedNeck
(Embrace the Lion of Judah and He will roar for you and teach you to roar too. See my page.)
To: dp0622
Tell them to use an asbestos container in your will.
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posted on
04/27/2017 12:09:58 PM PDT
by
HiTech RedNeck
(Embrace the Lion of Judah and He will roar for you and teach you to roar too. See my page.)
To: DFG
This was a grease fire...
(I couldn't help myself)....but condolences to the family of the deceased person. RIP
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posted on
04/27/2017 12:12:01 PM PDT
by
B.O. Plenty
(....give war a chance.....)
To: DFG
Also FTA......
The danger of fires when cremating obese bodies isn’t an entirely unknown issue for the funeral service profession: “As you may realize, when a morbidly obese person is cremated, there’s a danger of what can only be called (in layman’s terms) a ‘grease fire,’” according to Caleb Wilde, a licensed professional who runs the blog Confessions of a Funeral Director.
In October 2014, a Virginia facility caught fire while cremating a 500-pound body. Fire investigators there said excessive heat ignited rubber roofing near the crematorium’s smoke stack. Another fire, two years earlier in Austria, left firefighters “covered with a layer of sooty grease.”
To: DFG
Funeral people say of fat folks, “they bring their own BTU’s to the fire.”
I suppose they could have discreetly carved it into smaller pieces. This is one of those chores I am SO glad somebody else does. Glad to pay for it, thank you.
To: posterchild
They could always go the "Gilbert Grape" route.
To: Responsibility2nd
This is a situation that Viking funerals were created for, perhaps? Do it way out on the water.
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posted on
04/27/2017 12:15:06 PM PDT
by
HiTech RedNeck
(Embrace the Lion of Judah and He will roar for you and teach you to roar too. See my page.)
To: Gen.Blather
But then they would have to bill for a double (triple, etc.) batch.
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posted on
04/27/2017 12:15:51 PM PDT
by
HiTech RedNeck
(Embrace the Lion of Judah and He will roar for you and teach you to roar too. See my page.)
To: Responsibility2nd; DFG
I can attest. I worked in that industry for a dozen years. This is not uncommon.
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posted on
04/27/2017 12:16:15 PM PDT
by
day10
(You'll get nothing and like it!)
To: mass55th
I heard that he was in a coffin the size of a piano box
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posted on
04/27/2017 12:16:18 PM PDT
by
mainestategop
(DonÂ’t Let Freedom Slip Away! After America , There is No Place to Go)
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