Columbia Fire and Rescue Blotter

Source: The Register Star Online

The Germantown Fire Department and Northern Dutchess Paramedics were dispatched to 3934 Route 9G, Germantown, at 11:05 a.m. May 19 for an outdoor smoke investigation. The cause was determined to be smoke from a nearby controlled ...
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Florida Doctor Arrested for DUI, Spits Blood on Trooper, Goes Insane on Video

Source: Miami New Times

Dr. Zachary Bird, 41, was driving along a Central Florida road early Sunday morning, likely under the influence, when his car nearly sideswiped a Florida Highway Patrol captain's car. That's horrible enough, but it was Bird's outrag ...
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A bright idea

Source: Ottawa Citizen

Before Thomas Edison and his incandescent bulb came along in 1880, options were few to light your living room. There were candles, kerosene, maybe a gas lamp. Now lighting is a complicated, often expensive, affair of fashion and technology. It ca ...
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Everything old is new again

Source: Toronto Star

May 25, 2012 Glen Peloso SPECIAL TO THE STAR I’m always a little surprised when people bring children to trade shows, like the International Contemporary Furniture Fair in New York City, which I attended ear ...
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Recalls this week: Lamps, blenders, bike parts

Source: CBS News

Clip-on desk lamps and kitchen blenders are among this week's recalled products. The lamps pose the risk of an electric shock, and someone using the blender could be cut by rotating blades if the blender's plastic pitcher separates ...
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Cooper Lighting recalls commercial reflector assembly with glass lens

Source: The Fort Wayne Journal Gazette

WASHINGTON, D.C. - The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission, in cooperation with Cooper Lighting LLC, today announced a voluntary recall of the Portfolio 7-inch reflector assembly with glass lens. Consumers should stop using recalled products immed ...
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Reader Redesign: Blank Wall to Big Welcome

Source: Young House Love

We never get tired of seeing a solution like the one that Sada and her husband Reagan sent our way. They took an otherwise useless wall in their entryway and turned it into both a functional space for coats and a pretty spot f ...
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luciana gonzález franco: ali bualá lamp

Source: designboom

READER'S SUBMISSION a full grained wood and ceramic coat hanger is the outcome of blind correspondence between two studios that designed the piece bas... READER'S SUBMISSION a light fixture which uses cable reels to create an upcycle ...
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sholi strauss + studiokahn: dominique

Source: designboom

'dominique' by sholi strauss + studiokahn image Š yigal pardo israeli atelier's sholi strauss and studiokahn have developed 'dominique' a coat hanger out of blind correspondence. a knob was designed and made b ...
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