{"id":141328,"date":"2020-12-25T03:02:00","date_gmt":"2020-12-25T00:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/fire-in-thrift-shop-sparked-by-sun-shining-through-snow-globe\/"},"modified":"2020-12-25T03:02:00","modified_gmt":"2020-12-25T00:02:00","slug":"fire-in-thrift-shop-sparked-by-sun-shining-through-snow-globe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/fire-in-thrift-shop-sparked-by-sun-shining-through-snow-globe\/","title":{"rendered":"#Fire in thrift shop sparked by sun shining through snow globe"},"content":{"rendered":"

“#Fire in thrift shop sparked by sun shining through snow globe<\/strong>”
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This was a different kind of global warming.<\/p>\n

Sunlight concentrated through a snow globe sparked a fire in the window display of a Missouri thrift store, according to a report.<\/p>\n

The front window of the New Dime Store in Kansas City went up around 9:30 a.m. Tuesday, while the shop was still closed for the day, local CBS affiliate KCTV reported<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The sound of a fire alarm alerted customers and employees in a barbershop next door, including manager Josh Gilbert, who ran outside to find the dime store in flames, the report said.<\/p>\n

\u201cI took a hammer and broke the glass,\u201d Gilbert told the outlet. \u201cThe girls at the barbershop called 911 and started filling up trash cans with water. And we were putting that on the fire.\u201d<\/p>\n

With the help of Carl Kuda, a jewelry store owner who came running with a fire extinguisher, the makeshift fire brigade put out the flames shortly before smoke-eaters arrived, according to the report.<\/p>\n

No injuries were reported.<\/p>\n

The firefighters pinned the blame for the blaze on the sun shining through a snow globe in the dime store\u2019s display, with the tchotchke effectively functioning as a magnifying glass and generating enough heat to spark a fire, KCTV reported.<\/p>\n

Similar incidents have been reported in recent years, both in the US and abroad.<\/p>\n

In 2013, firefighters in Middlesex Township, Pennsylvania suspected that a snow globe was to blame for a house fire, according to Pittsburgh CBS affiliate KDKA<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The next year, a snow globe in the window of another thrift shop in Bournemouth, England set fake \u201creindeer food\u201d and snow in the display ablaze, according to The Guardian<\/a>.<\/p>\n

And in 2008, The Baltimore Sun reported<\/a> that the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission issued a recall notice for 7,000 snow globes sold in Hallmark Gold Crown stores, with at least two owners complaining that the decorations led to fires.<\/p>\n

New Dime Store owner Kimberly Harris, who was home when the fire started, said that though no one was hurt, the damage to the store\u2019s stock was particularly crushing during the holiday season, in a year that has already seen their profits tanked by the coronavirus.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou have to come in and you\u2019ll smell it and you\u2019ll see. And it\u2019s inside garments,\u201d she told KCTV. <\/p>\n

But she thanked her neighbors, saying that without their quick actions, there might be nothing left at all.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf it wasn\u2019t for them acting like they did and taking action and not waiting for the fire department, it could\u2019ve been a whole lot worse so I am so grateful to them,\u201d she said.\n <\/p><\/div>\n

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