Homeowners in the US state of Maryland made an unsuccessful attempt to get rid of the snakes that led to the burning of real estate. informs CNN.
The plague of snakes has been a longstanding problem for this house, both under its current owners and under its previous tenant. The homeowners decided to smoke the animals. For these purposes, they laid out coals in different parts of the house, which should blow up smoke that scares off reptiles. However, they found themselves too close to combustible materials, and therefore a fire started in the basement, which quickly spread across all floors.
Fortunately, the owners of the house were not there at the time. A neighbor passing by saw the smoke and called the emergency services. It took the firefighters several hours to take control of the fire, but it was not completely extinguished until the next morning. The incident was considered an accident as there was no evidence or intention to ignite the fire.
It is reported that the building was acquired by the new owners quite recently, its cost was $ 1.8 million (about 133 million rubles). The damage caused by the fire was estimated at more than a million dollars (about 74 million rubles).
Earlier it became known that the Sverdlovsk regional court sentenced to 12 years in prison a resident of the city of Volchansk, 33-year-old Arkady Aksenov, who set fire to the house with his family, as a result of which his wife died. The convict was found guilty of a particularly brutal murder committed in a generally dangerous way, an attempt on the life of two people and the deliberate destruction of property.
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