Dog's water bowl cause fire.

[j-kid]

SEATTLE, May 19 (UPI) -- Sunlight magnified by water in a dog bowl left on a Seattle home's wooden deck was the probable cause of a fire, officials say.

Lt. Eric Keenan, the Seattle Fire Department's community liaison officer, told Monday's Seattle Times while such an incident is rare, it's not unheard of.

"There was nothing else in that area that could be identified as a fire source -- no smokers, no electrical devices," he said.

The newspaper reported the Sunday fire destroyed the deck and badly damaged an adjacent kitchen, with total losses estimated at $215,000. No people or pets were injured.

Keenan said he had heard of a similar fire in which glass in a door caused a construction site blaze, while University of Washington atmospheric scientist Steve Warren added the theory is not impossible.

"The shape (of the bowl), the height and the angle of the sun would have to be just right," he told the Times.
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[Dr.Dudd]

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<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: J kid</div><div class="ubbcode-body">SEATTLE, May 19 (UPI) -- Sunlight magnified by water in a dog bowl left on a Seattle home's wooden deck was the probable cause of a fire, officials say.

Lt. Eric Keenan, the Seattle Fire Department's community liaison officer, told Monday's Seattle Times while such an incident is rare, it's not unheard of.

&quot;There was nothing else in that area that could be identified as a fire source -- no smokers, no electrical devices,&quot; he said.

The newspaper reported the Sunday fire destroyed the deck and badly damaged an adjacent kitchen, with total losses estimated at $215,000. No people or pets were injured.

Keenan said he had heard of a similar fire in which glass in a door caused a construction site blaze, while University of Washington atmospheric scientist Steve Warren added the theory is not impossible.

&quot;The shape (of the bowl), the height and the angle of the sun would have to be just right,&quot; he told the Times.
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</div></div> As a theory it is not implausable, but telkl them to duplicate it and then you get the truth. somebody is covering an insurance scam They probably was going to foreclosure and the copknow the person.

[britisha]

Re: Dog's water bowl cause fire.

Not surprised.

When we were children, my Dad used to bring home from his job, a special brown colored piece of glass qhixh when we hold it in the sunlight over paper, it would set the paper on fire...it wasn't magnifying glass, cyaan membah di name doah.

[Dr.Dudd]

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<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: britisha</div><div class="ubbcode-body">Not surprised.

When we were children, my Dad used to bring home from his job, a special brown colored piece of glass qhixh when we hold it in the sunlight over paper, it would set the paper on fire...it wasn't magnifying glass, cyaan membah di name doah. </div></div> It has to be a distance from the object and the object have to be made of paper. (just jioking aboutpaper0 but you can do it intentionally butnot so easy by accidentand in a place liek Seattle where the humidity id about 100 when it not raining.