Seeing as the rain put out the forest fires I suppose it was time to light something else:
"Man douses self with gasoline, sets blaze that kills 9 in Russian nursing home" by Associated Press | August 31, 2010
MOSCOW — A despondent 86-year-old man apparently doused himself in gasoline and set off a fire yesterday that killed nine people in a nursing home, investigators said....
The state news agency ITAR-Tass reported the man was believed to be upset because he could not get an apartment of his own under a program for World War II veterans.
We don't treat vets so well ourselves, Americans.
Russia records nearly 18,000 fire deaths a year, several times the per capita rate in the United States and other Western countries. The country suffers frequent fires at hospitals, schools, and other state-run facilities, with many attributed to negligence and violations of fire safety rules. The fires have served as grim reminders of Russia’s crumbling infrastructure....
And that should keep your mind off yours, Americans.
Notice how the MSM never really refers to your hollowed out country that way?
Also yesterday, a fire of uncertain cause broke out in a halfway-house complex for the mentally ill in the Ulyanovsk region, 300 miles southeast of Moscow, but there were no injuries, the Interfax news agency reported.
Are there any arsonists being treated?
In January 2009, a nursing home fire in the Komi region of Russia’s northwest killed 23 residents. A November 2007 fire caused by a short circuit killed 32 patients in a nursing home in the Tula region south of Moscow. In March 2007, 62 people died in a fire in another nursing home in southern Russia. A nearby fire station had been shut down, and it took firefighters almost an hour to get to the site after a night watchman ignored two fire alarms before reporting the blaze, authorities said. In the same year, a nursing home fire killed 10 people in Siberia.
Nothing like airing the dirty laundry in a paragraph, huh?
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