A 54-YR.OLD MAN IN TANGSTEDT, GERMANY, set out to kill some weeds and ended up homeless this past Thursday. AFP reports that the unidentified man was using a landscaper’s flame-thrower that is used to burn out weeds growing in sidewalk and roadway cracks to attack some weeds in his backyard garden.
While burning off the weeds, he accidentally set his hedge on fire. The hedge fire soon spread to his garden shed which fed the blaze with a variety of fuels. While he was attacking his shed fire with a garden hose, embers from the fire landed on the roof of his house and set it afire, also. Instead of calling the fire brigade then, he continued with his garden hose preconnect as the roof was burning off of his house. Eventually somebody called the Feuerwehr and after bringing in 7 engines and about 150 volunteers, they knocked the fire down and kept it from spreading to the neighboring homes. The house is now completely uninhabitable and suffering about 100,000 Euros in damages.
This is the second time in less than three months that a Tangstedt resident has destroyed his home while burning garden weeds. On April 24 another man who was using a burner lost his mansion-size house in the same manner.
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