Friday, November 26, 2004

Animal Firestarters

1. "Pizza-loving pooch blamed for fire"
   <http://www.news-star.com/stories/091504/New_25.shtml>
"A dog with a nose for pizza left on a stovetop apparently turned on the range
 inside a Ken Del apartment late Tuesday night causing a fire to start in unit
 No. 42"

2. "Dog starts Napa fire, nearly perishes with hamster"
   <http://beta.kpix.com/news/bcn/2004/01/31/n/HeadlineNews/NAPA-FIRE.html>
"The fire began sometime before 8 a.m. in the kitchen of the home at 1596 Verna
 Drive after Charlotte, while jumping onto the counter to get to a bag of
 garbage that had been left there, inadvertently turned a knob on the stove"

3. "Foraging pigs spark fire"
   <http://www.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,4057,8100793%5E1702,00.html>
"Five pigs searching for food ran into their owner's house in Cambodia, knocked
 over a container of gasoline and started a fire that killed the sleeping owner
 and seriously injured his wife, a newspaper reported today"

4. "Royalton house explosion blamed on animal"  [expired link]
   <http://www.kstp.com/article/view/126492/>
"The Minnesota Office of Pipeline Safety said it believes a rodent - probably a
 gopher - chewed through a gas line causing the explosion"

5. "Backfire ignites dog, dog sets grass fire"
   <http://www.rednova.com/news/stories/5/2003/10/06/story108.html>
"The dog, whose coat caught fire when the owner's vehicle backfired, ignited a
 grass fire just off U.S. Highway 95"

6. "Blazing bunny's revenge"
   <http://smh.com.au/articles/2004/08/13/1092340472508.html>
"A rabbit set alight by a bonfire at an English cricket club got its revenge
 when it ran burning into a hut and set it ablaze destroying costly equipment"