# \*Please\* be careful with heating equipment! (sad news for animal lovers)

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**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [January 29, 2004, 5:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-be-careful-with-heating-equipment-sad-news-for-animal-lovers/226604 "2004-01-29T17:12:01Z")\
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**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\
**Post date:** [January 29, 2004, 5:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-be-careful-with-heating-equipment-sad-news-for-animal-lovers/226604/1 "2004-01-29T17:12:01Z")

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Just heard about this on a St. Louis radio station.

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> [Alton Telegraph](http://www.zwire.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=10884586&BRD=1719&PAG=461&dept_id=25271&rfi=6)
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> BRIGHTON – Several dogs were killed in a fire Wednesday morning that began in a small building where they were being kept at a newly started kennel business in rural Brighton.
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> The fire broke out about 10 a.m. at the Nature’s Best kennel business, which is at a residence off of Lincoln Street in Macoupin County. Lincoln is off of Miles Station Road, approximately 5 miles east of the intersection with Illinois Route 111, just north of Brighton.
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> A Macoupin County sheriff’s deputy at the scene, who asked not to be named, said the fire apparently started from a heat lamp that had been put in the small kennel building and turned on to keep the dogs warm.
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> “There were quite a few dogs in there that the owners weren’t able to save. They got some of the other dogs out safely, though,” the deputy said.
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> The small kennel building burned to the ground. At one point, the flames were high enough to melt a portion of the siding on a mobile home next door. The home, where the business owners live, did not catch fire, however.
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> “They were pretty lucky. It could have been a lot worse. These mobile homes can go up so quick sometimes. If the fire just gets close to them, they start to melt right away,” the sheriff’s deputy said.

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**Author:** ![Ice\_Wolf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/dfb087/32.png) [@Ice\_Wolf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ice_Wolf)\
**Post date:** [January 29, 2004, 5:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-be-careful-with-heating-equipment-sad-news-for-animal-lovers/226604/2 "2004-01-29T17:40:24Z")

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That’s devastating. ☹