Torrington, Connecticut: An accidental fire in the wood shop of the Oliver
Wolcott Technical School resulted in a hole in the roof Monday. It was
caused by the spontaneous combustion of a pile of rags used to stain
toolboxes that students had built, the Fire Marshall said. The rags were
laying on a wooden table that burned before the fire went to the roof...
... Students who left the pile of rags likely will not be disciplined...
Geesh! Pretty scary...
On Wed, 13 Apr 2005 19:08:18 GMT, Don Sforza <[email protected]> wrote:
> Torrington, Connecticut: An accidental fire in the wood shop of the Oliver
> Wolcott Technical School resulted in a hole in the roof Monday. It was
> caused by the spontaneous combustion of a pile of rags used to stain
> toolboxes that students had built, the Fire Marshall said. The rags were
> laying on a wooden table that burned before the fire went to the roof...
> ... Students who left the pile of rags likely will not be disciplined...
Sounds like it's the teacher who should be, though. It's not like this
is a new phenomenon.
Robatoy wrote:
> In article <[email protected]>,
> LRod <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>
>>On Wed, 13 Apr 2005 19:08:18 GMT, "Don Sforza" <[email protected]>
>>wrote:
>>
>>
>>>Torrington, Connecticut: An accidental fire in the wood shop of the Oliver
>>>Wolcott Technical School resulted in a hole in the roof Monday. It was
>>>caused by the spontaneous combustion of a pile of rags used to stain
>>>toolboxes that students had built, the Fire Marshall said. The rags were
>>>laying on a wooden table that burned before the fire went to the roof...
>>>... Students who left the pile of rags likely will not be disciplined...
>>
>>Wouldn't have happened if the rags had been grounded...
>
>
> Never happens to acetone soaked rags either. You don't need to ground
> them.
...and small minds seldom differ. <g>
--
Will
Occasional Techno-geek
LRod <[email protected]> wrote in
news:[email protected]:
> On Wed, 13 Apr 2005 19:08:18 GMT, "Don Sforza" <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>
>>Torrington, Connecticut: An accidental fire in the wood shop of the
>>Oliver Wolcott Technical School resulted in a hole in the roof Monday.
>>It was caused by the spontaneous combustion of a pile of rags used to
>>stain toolboxes that students had built, the Fire Marshall said. The
>>rags were laying on a wooden table that burned before the fire went to
>>the roof... ... Students who left the pile of rags likely will not be
>>disciplined...
>
> Wouldn't have happened if the rags had been grounded...
>
Even if they had been stretched over a PVC dust extraction pipe? ;-)
In article <[email protected]>,
LRod <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Wed, 13 Apr 2005 19:08:18 GMT, "Don Sforza" <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>
> >Torrington, Connecticut: An accidental fire in the wood shop of the Oliver
> >Wolcott Technical School resulted in a hole in the roof Monday. It was
> >caused by the spontaneous combustion of a pile of rags used to stain
> >toolboxes that students had built, the Fire Marshall said. The rags were
> >laying on a wooden table that burned before the fire went to the roof...
> >... Students who left the pile of rags likely will not be disciplined...
>
> Wouldn't have happened if the rags had been grounded...
Never happens to acetone soaked rags either. You don't need to ground
them.
LRod wrote:
> On Wed, 13 Apr 2005 19:08:18 GMT, "Don Sforza" <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>
>
>>Torrington, Connecticut: An accidental fire in the wood shop of the Oliver
>>Wolcott Technical School resulted in a hole in the roof Monday. It was
>>caused by the spontaneous combustion of a pile of rags used to stain
>>toolboxes that students had built, the Fire Marshall said. The rags were
>>laying on a wooden table that burned before the fire went to the roof...
>>... Students who left the pile of rags likely will not be disciplined...
>
>
> Wouldn't have happened if the rags had been grounded...
>
...or soaked in acetone.
--
Will
Occasional Techno-geek
On Wed, 13 Apr 2005 19:08:18 GMT, "Don Sforza" <[email protected]>
wrote:
>Torrington, Connecticut: An accidental fire in the wood shop of the Oliver
>Wolcott Technical School resulted in a hole in the roof Monday. It was
>caused by the spontaneous combustion of a pile of rags used to stain
>toolboxes that students had built, the Fire Marshall said. The rags were
>laying on a wooden table that burned before the fire went to the roof...
>... Students who left the pile of rags likely will not be disciplined...
Wouldn't have happened if the rags had been grounded...
--
LRod
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