Deciding to forge a sword, the Americans burned the town. Video

This day was a strong wind and the fire quickly spread to the adjacent building.

A significant part of the town of Cohoes, located North of Albany in upstate new York, almost burned to the ground because of the Smith-lover, decided to try to forge out of their house sword.

51-year-old John Gomez, imitating the participants of the TV show in which competing professionals forge a weapon, lit a fire in the backyard, tan barrel. This day was a strong wind and the fire quickly spread to the adjacent building. And after an hour had burned three quarters. Damaged by fire in varying degrees, was not less than 32 homes. Some of them were completely destroyed. About 20 people homeless. Had a man who took part in the extinguishing of the flame of fire.

“In a state of emergency. Damages in the millions of dollars,” said mayor Cohoes Shawn Morse. Morse, who himself in the past in the past 26 years has served as a firefighter, said that he had never seen anything like that, and that this is the worst disaster in the history of the city.

“We often say to people that you cannot light an open fire in the city. And they often ask: “what’s the worst that could happen?” Well, this particular fire caused damage in the millions and destroyed half of our city”, — said the representative of the local police Tom Ross.

Gomez, who was arrested and charged, pleads not guilty. Yet he remains in prison, where he may be released before trial on bail of 15 thousand dollars.

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