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If your final wishes are to exit this world engulfed in flames in your beloved ship, I hate to break it to you but it can't happen in Minnesota. It actually can't happen anywhere in the United States. TikTok user @lovee.miss.lauren is a former death care worker that has since become a stay-at-home mom, sharing stories of her time in the industry and answering questions people have about the end of life process. She has made videos answering all sorts of questions like, "do you remove people's braces when they die?", "what is the cleanup process like after cremation?", and...

LYNDEN, Wash. — A Washington state fire chief says a man dumped gasoline on a beehive in a tree in retaliation for a bee sting, then ignited the hive, causing an explosion heard throughout his suburban neighborhood just a few miles south of the Canadian border. Lynden chief Gary Baar tells the Bellingham Herald (http://bit.ly/pBBpg0) that the Sunday night fire caused a large “whoosh,” singed the tree and killed the bees but no people were hurt. Baar says the man’s friend had been stung earlier in the day.

SAN FRANCISCO - Construction workers are anxious and investigators are puzzled. Someone has been sending San Francisco's portable toilets up in flames in a wave of potty pyromania.

Editorial: Fires are terrible, arson is worse Amid so much tragedy and destruction, some of it appears deliberate An Orange County Register editorial We had hoped beyond hope that, somehow, in this season when all the conditions, including a devastating lack of rain, were ripe for the kind of wildfires that are a regular feature of life in what we like to think of otherwise as near-paradise, we miraculously would be spared. But it was not to be. Our dismay is doubled, however, by the circumstances that authorities believe caused the fire that has burned at least 8.800 acres in...

DURANT -- Hate and racism might have been the cause behind a church fire in Durant Sunday night. That day before the fire, First Assembly Pastor Michael Bradley said he received a disturbing phone message on the church's answering machine. "The call came from someone saying they were the KKK," he said. "They used the 'N word' and everything, saying we better watch out." The reason why Bradley says he thinks the church got a racist call is because they have several minority members, and are planning to host an assembly and choir session with "Charles Johnson and The Revivers"...