University Daily Kansan / Monday. April 9. 1990
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Chimney installation causes local blaze
By Rod Griffin
Kansan staff writer
Jim Carpenter of Lawrence stood in his back yard with friends and neighbors, looked up at the smoking embers and asked who brought the hot dogs. There was, after all, a good fire.
His house was burning.
Carpenter's wife, Debra, said the first thing that came to mind was the cat.
"Oh my God! The cat's in the house," she said. "How am I going to explain this to the kids?"
A neighbor assured them that the cat had escaped.
No one was injured in the fire Friday afternoon at 2634 Manor Terrace. Jim Carpenter, an employee at Conrad Electric and Plumbing, and Debra Carpenter, a legal secretary for the Douglas County District Attorney, were both at work when they were notified. Their two children were with a babysitter.
Maj. Dan Morrow of the Lawrence Fire Department said the first call came about 2:30 p.m. on Monday afternoon and an intermediate care facility at
1800 W.27th St.
But Jane Pearson, a neighbor, said she smelled smoke more than two hours earlier.
"I smelled smoke when I got home at noon and went all through my house trying to find out what it was," she said.
Larry Stemmerman, fire inspector, said faulty chimney installation caused the blaze, which resulted in $75,000 damage. The chimney settled and pulled away from the wall, exposing the vent pipe of a wood stove in the back of the house.
Carpenter said there was a small fire in the stove Friday morning. The stove was added and the addition was built onto the house.
The exposed pipe allowed heat to build up in the wall, causing a fire. The fire moved through the wall and continued through the rest of the one-story house.
"It just really got a head start," Morrow said. "Boy, when fire gets up in the attic on a windday day like this, you've got your hands full."
It took firefighters about an hour to extinguish the fire.
Firefighters douse the Carpenter home. A fire there caused about $75,000 in damages Friday.
Thomas B. Allen
Hallmark Distinguished Professor in the Department of Design at the University of Kansas, and illustrator of In Coal Country, chosen as one of the New York Times Best Illustrated Books of 1987.
will be signing his books at the Mt. Oread Bookshop in the Kansas Union on Tuesday, April 10.
Time to Go, published this month by Harcourt Brace Jovanovich will be available.
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