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Old 01-07-2013, 04:45 PM #1
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Default Birmingham: £6million blaze sparked by a Chinese lantern




These lanterns must be made Illegal


Before the single lantern landed


"Smoke rises over the Birmingham skyline
earlier today. Smethwick sits on the edge
of the UK's second-largest city"

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...#ixzz2XoTRXhFz



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How did they know it was a chinese lantern that caused it?
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How did they know it was a chinese lantern that caused it?


It was filmed as it went down on the Plastic Site.




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I don't know why they're legal in the first place... it's essentially the same as setting fire to a place miles away. And really lethal to cattle, too.

plus they aren't that pretty.
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I don't know why they're legal in the first place... it's essentially the same as setting fire to a place miles away. And really lethal to cattle, too.

plus they aren't that pretty.

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Ahh I remember when one of those was in the sky round here and me and gav were pissed and convinced ourselves that it was either a UFO or a plane on fire about to crash
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you're thinking of the concorde crash, vicky, and hundreds of people died
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there's no video of the lantern actually landing there though. On that article anyway.
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A Chinese lantern landed on a stable near here a couple of years ago and two horses died in the fire. They're bloody lethal.
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yeah one nearly set someones tree on fire next door

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I'm sorry but I find the idea that a small Chinese lantern could start a fire of this magnitude a little hard to believe. It's a good excuse though but the term inside job or Insurance job springs to mind .

Who knows they may have used the cover of Chinese lanterns but seriously this was probably a well planned insurance job.
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I'm sorry but I find the idea that a small Chinese lantern could start a fire of this magnitude a little hard to believe. It's a good excuse though but the term inside job or Insurance job springs to mind .

Who knows they may have used the cover of Chinese lanterns but seriously this was probably a well planned insurance job.
You think a tiny flame can't start a big blaze? Really?

After the fire at the stable I referred to a few posts back, the Fire Brigade found the wire from the lantern in the burned out building. Also, Richard Bacon MP raised the subject of Chinese Lanterns at PMQ a couple of years ago after several farmers in East Anglia had their crops destroyed by fires caused by Chinese lanterns.
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You think a tiny flame can't start a big blaze? Really?

After the fire at the stable I referred to a few posts back, the Fire Brigade found the wire from the lantern in the burned out building. Also, Richard Bacon MP raised the subject of Chinese Lanterns at PMQ a couple of years ago after several farmers in East Anglia had their crops destroyed by fires caused by Chinese lanterns.
Actually they were suspected Chinese lanterns but eventually they were proved to be UFO's.........!!!!!
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I'm sorry but I find the idea that a small Chinese lantern could start a fire of this magnitude a little hard to believe. It's a good excuse though but the term inside job or Insurance job springs to mind .

Who knows they may have used the cover of Chinese lanterns but seriously this was probably a well planned insurance job.

Why not its a Flame
with plastic around it
it lands on the wrong place.


As for insurance
thats being checked, as normal
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