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The above is a video of the Chesapeake Fire Department burning down an old house. You can see in the beginning of the video that it was a fine old house. I'm guessing it was built in the late 1800s, but I really am not sure. You can hear the firemen talking about how much of a fight the old house puts up.
Why - oh why - aren't we salvaging the materials from these old houses, built with first-growth lumber from virgin forests? Lumber - the likes of which - we will never see again in this country?
This old wood is so hard and solid and strong. This is so disturbing. Why are we burning up these resources? Is there no market for salvaged heart-pine and comparable materials?
Rose
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