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jokar:
LFB have just had a fire in a SH complex where the freezer was de iced and turned back on and the gas ignited.
http://www.london-fire.gov.uk/LatestIncidentsContainer_261015_tentreatedsmokeinhalation.asp

kurnal:
Interesting. London doesn't change does it - 6 appliances to a flat on fire!

Owain:
Luxury flats destroyed by fire after pensioner used heat gun to defrost freezer

http://www.heraldscotland.com/news/14517528.Luxury_flats_destroyed_by_fire_after_pensioner_used_heat_gun_to_defrost_freezer/

http://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/local-news/residents-rehoused-after-intense-blaze-7894456

A huge fire which destroyed six luxury apartments was started after a pensioner used a red hot paint stripper to defrost a freezer, sources claim.  The 85-year-old is believed to have been blasted across a kitchen when the electrical appliance exploded at a property in affluent Thorntonhall on the edge of Glasgow.

A source close to the investigation, who asked not to be named, said: ?He was using a paint stripping device, which we would refer to as a heat gun, to defrost the freezer.  There are components in fridge freezers which can explode. They are quite dangerous, particularly if certain devices are used to defrost them. He?s very, very fortunate to have escaped without serious injury. It was a major fire.?

 It understood it could be weeks before the insurance company makes a decision on the building but an insider at South Lanarkshire Council revealed it could be flattened. They may have to demolish it,? said the source, who asked not to be named. ?It?s completely unsafe. So it?s uninhabitable."

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