House Goes Up in Smoke After Cigarette Break
From Times Wire Reports
A man taking a break from painting burned down his house in the town of Denver after trying to snuff out a cigarette in a bowl of paint thinner.
Stevie Spencer had put the bowl on his coffee table before taking a smoke break. “I forgot paint thinner was in the bowl,” Spencer said. “I thought it was water.”
The fire from the paint thinner ignited some papers and spread rapidly. Fire Chief Jay Flynn said the house was too far gone to save it when firefighters arrived.
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