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Tuesday, December 22, 2015

Officials: yacht club fire due to Christmas tree

ANNAPOLIS, Md. (AP) — Fire investigators have concluded a fire that badly damaged the Annapolis Yacht Club was caused by an electrical malfunction with a pre-lit artificial Christmas tree.

The Annapolis Fire Department said in a news release Monday that damage estimates are expected to exceed $9 million.

The three-alarm fire happened on Dec. 12. A firefighter was treated for minor injuries.

Annapolis Fire Chief David Stokes noted that it’s the second time a Christmas tree fire has had a major impact in the Annapolis community. In January, an electrical fire that spread to a 15-foot Christmas tree prompted a blaze that killed a couple and four of their young grandchildren.

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5 comments:

Anonymous said...

Ya, sounds good, there is a video on the net on how to set up your tree to burn so you can remodel at no costs to you.

Anonymous said...

I guess now the wackos will try to use that to eliminate christmas.

Anonymous said...

Obama just released another executive order, no christmas trees and also no Bibles in this country

Anonymous said...

I guess now the wackos will try to use that to eliminate christmas.

December 22, 2015 at 12:00 PM

that would be fine with me. the retailers, who invented this bogus 'holiday' would be screaming bloody murder tho. it's all about the bottom line but americans are so stupid.

Anonymous said...

Just read an insurance report on "Christmas Tree Fires", and on average, 300 thousand trees are sold each year in the US, of those only 150 fires on average are reported each year. Seems a far stretch for this to have happened. Less than a 1% chance. Fire, liar, pants on fire?