Spontaneous Human Combustion - My Personal Experience

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  1. Frank Sanoica

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    Good comparison! I've had my share of problems with "green" firewood!
    Frank
     
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  2. Lon Tanner

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    Does any SO member have any experience with SHC?
    My personal experience was on a Sunday morning in Napa, California 1965 I was a witness to the results of the event that must have occured sometime Saturday evening. After much research and investigation we determined that it was a Wick Phenomenon
     
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  3. Craig Wilson

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    That was going to be my answer too Lon. I have always been fascinated by SHC. I recall watching a SHC experiment using a pig. It convinced me.
     
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    About the highest blood alcohol level ever recorded is 1.5%. Blood with this mix just can't burn.
    I'm not discounting all other possible causes, but if SHC does occur, it must come from a burn source outside the body and not from within.
     
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  5. Lon Tanner

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    In the case that I was involved in the decedent had been sitting in a chair in front of a TV with highly inflammable Kapok cushions while smoking a cigar Everything burnt and fell through a two inch oak tongue & groove flooring
     
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