“It’s a living thing, Brian. It breathes, it eats, and it hates. The only way to beat it is to think like it. To know that this flame will spread this way across the door and up across the ceiling, not because of the physics of flammable liquids, but because it wants to.” © Robert De Niro in Backdraft

This is a really really old story. It has never been told before, I only remembered it because of the story from last week of the car catching on fire.
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4 years ago back when I first started at my current job. I was there [...]

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“Smoking kills. If you’re killed, you’ve lost a very important part of your life.” © Brooke Shields

So earlier I was out in our yard doing a check on trailers. I smell something burning. We have an ashtray outside and sometimes they forget to empty it and the cigarette butts catch on fire. So I walk over to the ash tray to put out the fire, and nothing. So I follow [...]

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