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Saturday, September 17, 2005

Static Cling

"We tested his clothes with a static electricity field meter and measured a current of 40,000 volts, which is one step shy of spontaneous combustion, where his clothes would have self-ignited," Barton said.



"I've been firefighting for over 35 years and I've never come across anything like this," he said.
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