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Originally posted by HowardRoark
They won't move from thier chair if they are dead already.
A smoldering fire in an enclosed room will not nessessarily burn down the house.
Besides, most of those cases happened years ago, before modern urithane filled couches adn chairs. Horse hair was not as flamible.
Originally posted by trust_no_one
it also takes 3000 degrees F to burn the body that drastically
Originally posted by DRAGON27
Originally posted by HowardRoark
They won't move from thier chair if they are dead already.
A smoldering fire in an enclosed room will not nessessarily burn down the house.
Besides, most of those cases happened years ago, before modern urithane filled couches adn chairs. Horse hair was not as flamible.
there is flash over. it can happen even from a smoldering fire and burn whole room and then jump to the next room. the modern urithane is fire redardent not fire proof. a new couch or bed will burn and burn hot .
Originally posted by DRAGON27
try this site it says "died of spontaneous combustion in Pennsylvania in 1966. The spot where the body lay is burnt, but the rest of the room, including the toilet, was not even scorched. This shows a quick, hot flame that devoured the body in seconds." theshadowlands.net...
Arnold leads off with the 1966 case of Dr. John Irving Bentley who was consumed by fire in the bathroom of his home in Coudersport, Pennsylvania. About all that was left of him-in recognizable form-was his lower leg that had burned off at the knee; it was lying at the edge of a hole about two and a half by four feet which had burned into the basement.
Spontaneous human combustion? Actually the infirm ninety-year-old physician had a habit of dropping matches and hot ashes from his pipe upon his robes which were spotted with burns from earlier occasions. He also kept wooden matches in both pockets of his day robe-a situation that could transform an ember into a fatal blaze. Apparently waking to find his clothing on fire, Dr. Bentley made his way into the bathroom with the aid of his aluminum walker-probably at an accelerated pace-where he vainly attempted to extinguish the flames. Broken remains of what was apparently a water pitcher were found in the toilet. Once the victim fell on the floor, his burning clothing could have ignited the flammable linoleum; beneath that was hardwood flooring and wooden beams-wood for a funeral pyre. Cool air drawn from the basement in what is known as the "chimney effect" could have kept the fire burning hotly
Investigators wrapped a whole pig body in a blanket, poured a small amount of an accelerant on the blanket, lighted the accelerant, and let the cameras roll for seven hours, at which time overtime for the camera operators kicked in, and the filming was stopped. The demonstration achieved a slow burn at about 800 degrees Fahrenheit (compared to cremation, typically
around 1300 degrees Fahrenheit).
It was found that the very thorough nature of the burning depended on this slow burn, which slowly wicked fat from the body of the pig and made tiny cracks in the bones, releasing more fat from the bone marrow, allowing the bones to burn from the inside as well as the outside. The result was a slow, thorough burning of all of the body except for the extremities, where there was not enough fuel to sustain the fire. The bones were reduced to dust, without the chunks of bone that remain when a body is cremated.