Sunday, April 7, 2024

Fire, deaths and novelty lighters

There was an article in the Stevens Point Journal about a case where a fire that destroyed a home was suspected of being started by a child playing with a lighter.  It was a novelty lighter, maybe shaped like a truck or something, that seemed like a toy.  A child in a local 2nd grade knew her grandfather was involved in local politics and she said to him that he should pass a law against novelty lighters that look to little kids like they are toys.  


Sixteen years later, the governor came to her school and signed the new law banning novelty lighters.