Florida fire started by book burning destroys two homes
Source: CNN
(CNN)Two homes in Nassau County, Florida, were destroyed in a wildfire caused by a man who was burning books Wednesday.
Only a few minor injuries to emergency personnel have been reported in what's being called the Garfield Road Fire, according to the Florida Forest Service. It has burned an estimated 696 acres near Bryceville, about 20 miles west of Jacksonville.
Officials said in a news conference Thursday the wildfire was 80% contained.
Six other homes were damaged and at least 19 sheds and other structures were severely damaged or considered a total loss, Billy Estep, director of emergency management in Nassau County, told reporters at the news conference.
Read more: http://edition.cnn.com//2017/03/23/us/florida-book-burning-fire/index.html
It doesn't appear to be a political act, just a guy burning paperbacks.
However it seems like the perfect analogy for the Republican House actions today.
rurallib
(62,448 posts)as some kind of a political act. The guy was burning trash.
But it was an illegal fire and I don't know what the law is, but in my book he should be held responsible
grantcart
(53,061 posts)dchill
(38,532 posts)Especially when it's illegal.
gopiscrap
(23,765 posts)Ford_Prefect
(7,919 posts)"It was an illegal burn," she said, adding that it's against the law to burn household garbage in Florida. "It was paper. It got away from him."
The man's intention was to burn some trash, Estep told CNN.
" It was) purely an accident," he said.
Virtual Burlesque
(132 posts)Most medium-sized cities have used book exchanges where he may have got rid of the paperbacks and had a few coins in his pocket to jingle instead of a Forest Services subpoena. Or, so long as they weren't pornographic, he could have donated them to a hospital.
Ford_Prefect
(7,919 posts)Sadly I've lost a number to mold, along with an occasional copy to the vindictive dog syndrome. In a wet, Semi-Tropical environment like this some things just don't hold up without careful preservation.
TlalocW
(15,391 posts)Not the member of Monty Python, but the evangelist trying his best to jump on the religious hate bandwagon to get whatever scraps he can by burning Korans.
TlalocW
Grizzled Ol Granddad
(73 posts)Me too.
JustABozoOnThisBus
(23,364 posts)Salvation Army, church sales, V.A. hospitals, recycle, etc
FailureToCommunicate
(14,020 posts)JustABozoOnThisBus
(23,364 posts)FailureToCommunicate
(14,020 posts)JudyM
(29,274 posts)Doreen
(11,686 posts)he is just an idiot. OMG!!
Baitball Blogger
(46,757 posts)no_hypocrisy
(46,182 posts)Kaleva
(36,342 posts)Ellen Forradalom
(16,160 posts)mr_lebowski
(33,643 posts)Gotta be the dumbest state in the Union I swear ... no offense to the DU'ers living there. But it sure seems like, outside the coasts/liberal areas, there's a whole GAGGLE of stupid ...
IronLionZion
(45,528 posts)in order to make America great again we must root out the real cause of triggered snowflakes: education. Burn all the books in a big raging Trumpster fire!