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Prep school fire started by crystal ball


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The crew from Hove Community Fire Station were called to Lancing Preparatory School in The Droveway, Hove, at about 7pm to deal with a classroom that had been filled with smoke.

The fire had started by sunlight shining through a crystal ball which was near a scarf and the heat generated began to burn the scarf.

http://www.theargus....y_crystal_ball/

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Black magic is evil! EVIL!!!

But seriously, I didn't think a glass sphere would allow light to cumulate at one concentrated point, similar to a magnifying glass.

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Spheres can be rather serious focuses used in light tec. There's even little solar chargers now that use a ball to focus light powerfully on a small cell. Fires have been started with water globes too, like snowglobes and fish tanks.

That school is lucky the fire was caught when it was.

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Aye.... you need to be extra careful when you have crystal balls.

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