Thursday, April 27, 2017

If Anywhere Can Set a Crematorium Afire, Cincinnati is the Place

It makes me proud sometimes to see my ex-hometowns in the news and particularly this time when Cincinnati has done something which is seemingly impossible and has done it in such a distinctly unique way.  The reason the fire got out of control adds a dimension of twisted which would be impossible to comprehend if it had not happened in Cincinnati.  (WCPO:  'Overly obese' body starts funeral home fire)


Oy, oy, Chef Tell, we've got a grease fire down here in the oven, mate.  WTF?


I lived probably less than a mile from the place so this isn't just my ex-hometown but my ex-neighborhood, complete with burning crematoria.


Here's a semi-literate comment from the owner:

CINCINNATI -- A "freak accident" started an unscheduled fire Wednesday night at the Hillside Chapel Crematory in Cincinnati, owner Don Catchen said.

"My operator was in the process of cremating remains and (the body) was overly obese and apparently it got a little hotter than the unit is supposed to get," Catchen said. "One of the cremation containers that we had close got caught on fire and that's what burnt."

- WCPO

Say there, Donnie, we got it that it burned but what we don't get is how it burned.


Cincinnati Fire Chief Michael Washington said the fire started with a business-as-usual cremation.

When fat in the body burned at a higher temperature than usual, the too-hot flames spread to nearby containers and parts of the surrounding room, he said.

- WCPO

When this has not apparently happened previously, I've got to bloody ask ... wtf were you trying to burn, mates?


It gets better.

The danger of fires when cremating obese bodies isn't an entirely unknown issue for the funeral service profession: "As you may realize, when a morbidly obese person is cremated, there's a danger of what can only be called (in layman's terms) a 'grease fire,'" according to Caleb Wilde, a licensed professional who runs the blog Confessions of a Funeral Director.

- WCPO

Glory ... a grease fire.


It looks like you have to keep an eye out for those five-hundred-pounders since this has happened elsewhere and the roof of the crematorium was set afire in that incident.

So, sure, you keep on feeding that blob, Uncle Elmo, since even if he can't serve as anything else at least he can serve as a fire hazard.


Ed:  Spontaneous Human Combustion is real!

Of course it is.  So are the chem trails.  You are wearing your gas mask, aren't you.  You also have the antennas on your head to serve as ion deflectors, correct?

Ed:  I never heard of ion deflectors before

You need them since otherwise they can find you.

Ed:  otherwise who can find me?

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