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Archive Home > 2009 > January > 20 > Fire educator seeks ban on novelty lighters

Fire educator seeks ban on novelty lighters

By The Associated Press / The Bulletin
January 20, 2009

TACOMA, Wash. — Joe Meinecke calls it his $50,000 lighter.

Shaped like a miniature gun, it caused that amount of damage to a Tacoma family’s home when a 4-year-old played with it and set a couch on fire.

Meinecke, a public educator with the Tacoma Fire Department, uses the....

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