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Posted by Don Ocean on June 11, 2008, 10:07 am
Tekkie® wrote:
> posted for all of us...
>
>> http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/06/10/BA2P116REP.DTL
>>
>> Regulator ? What's a regulator ? I can go get some fittings at Lowes
>> that kinda work to connect this up ......
>>
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>> (06-10) 12:01 PDT SANTA ROSA -- A 46-year-old Santa Rosa man suffered
>> burns when a clothes dryer that he had hooked up to a propane tank
>> exploded, authorities said today.
>>
>> Charles Ballard suffered second-degree burns on his face, neck and
>> right arm during the accident Sunday at his home on Ludwig Avenue.
>>
>> Ballard had recently moved into the house and was using the dryer for
>> the first time, said Battalion Chief Andy Pforsich of the Santa Rosa
>> Fire Department. The propane tank, left by a previous tenant, did not
>> have a regulator.
>>
>> "He found the tank and the dryer sitting next to each other and
>> thought they went together," Pforsich said. "It overpressured fuel in
>> the dryer and when he turned it on, it exploded."
>>
>> Flames from the explosion burned a wall of the house, a bamboo fence
>> and some grass, Pforsich said. With help from others, Ballard put out
>> the fire.
>>
>> He then drove to Santa Rosa Memorial Hospital. From there, he was
>> transferred to St. Francis Memorial Hospital in San Francisco. He was
>> released Monday.
>>
>>
> Boy that burnt him up! The clothes were also a lot dryer than he wanted
too...
> His undies had all kinds of scorch marks!
But it dry them quickly. No long boring waits.
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