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Default The Brits are utterly Daft....

On Thu, 13 Mar 2008 22:54:00 +0000, David Billington wrote:

Gunner wrote:
http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage...icle900459.ece

Well an initial comment is that I have a friend that is a fire scene
investigator and we have discussed this sort of thing before. She has
seen the aftermath of people that don't know when to give up trying to
fight a fire with the extinguishers and other items they have and end up
as statistics (dead). IIRC from her professional point of view best to
get out and let the professionals sort the fire if an initial attempt
doesn't squash to fire quickly in it infancy.


Yes, but can she tell you how many fire scenes she didn't have to go to
at all, because the fire was put out long before the authorities needed
to be called?

They ban real knives and fire extinguishers, but not mothers-in-law.

Hmm.

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