There is something happening here. What it is ain’t exactly clear. There’s a man with a bong over there, telling me to … call 911.
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There was a garage fire at a home on Thursday in Rancho Peñasquitos, a community in San Diego. The 23-year-old man who lives in the house explained to XETV-TV that he was about to fire up his hookah with a torch lighter when the lighter just blew up, setting the couch and then the garage on fire. The dude didn’t say much more before being loaded into an ambulance and a trip to the hospital to be treated for second-degree burns to his hands. He received the burns while pushing his Jeep away from the blaze.
The TV station went on to report, “Investigators say the young man was using the hookah to smoke marijuana and apparently left the torch on.”
The man did manage to alert his sister and father to get out of the house. Neighbors called 911 and fought the blaze with three garden hoses. They told reporters it took firefighters a long time to get to the burning home.
There is apparently something to the neighbor’s complaints. The fire department confirms a computer crashed just before the fire call, and the regular alerting system was not operating.
