Firefighters, Teaching Safety, Set Off Blaze (Arkansas, Yahoo)

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http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=573&ncid=757&e=3&u=/nm/20041007/od_nm/odd_fire_dc
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LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (Reuters) - Arkansas firefighters set off a blaze that scorched a house when a structure they use to teach fire safety to children snapped a power line en route to an education session.

Firefighters in Magnolia, about 135 miles southwest of Little Rock, said the fire education structure, called a "smokehouse," struck a power line as they towed it to an elementary school. The downed power line sparked a fire at a house.

The house suffered minimal damage, firefighters said, but the pet Chihuahua of a widow living in the home was killed. The dog named, Nubin, apparently died of smoke inhalation.

The smokehouse is a jumbo-sized doll house used to teach children about how to evacuate their homes in the event of a fire.

Firefighters on the scene were unable to put out the blaze because one end of the live wire was resting on their truck. A second unit had to be summoned to extinguish the blaze.
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Only in Arkansas.

[russian33]

1. Same thing happened on an eppy of The Simpsons once...too funny