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400 firefighters, 10 alarms caused by two homeless guys trying to make an extra buck.
The huge fire, which even required the use of fireboats, was started so that the men could get an extra 55 cents per pound for the copper wire — $1.25 compared with 70 cents per pound for insulated wire. Investigators said that the homeless men had placed roughly 120 feet of copper cable onto a platform that was designed to burn intensely — made of rubber tires, wooden palettes and doused with gasoline siphoned from vehicles near the warehouses. Then they set it alight.
2 Homeless Men Blamed for Fire on Waterfront [NYT]
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