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An exhaust fan inside a dryer caused the blaze at a multi-family Bible Street home Thursday night, a fire official said Friday.

Acting Fire Marshal Jim McDonald said fire crews acted quickly in containing the fire in a third-floor kitchen of 25 Bible St. in Cos Cob. The fire started a little after 9 p.m.

"Damage was limited to the dryer itself," he said, explaining that the department ruled out the possibility that the fire started in the dryer drum.

The fire department removed the damaged appliance from the household after extinguishing the blaze.

McDonald could not elaborate on what caused the fan to spark the fire.

"Who knows what was in that fan?" he said.

Deputy Chief Thomas Zack said Thursday night the damage could have been significantly worse if the fire department had not received a quick phone call from one of the tenants. A man who lives on the second and third floors of the home with his wife and three children reported the fire at 9:25 p.m.

"All in all, it was initiating a 911 call quickly that really helped a lot, because if that tenant weren't home it would have been a much, much worse circumstance, especially in an old wood-frame house like that," Zack said.

Smoke was visible from the back of the house when firefighters arrived on the scene, Zack said.

There were no injuries in the incident and only minor smoke damage, he said.

Firefighters safely evacuated the residents of the household while the fire was extinguished, he said.

The house is habitable and the residents stayed there Thursday night, McDonald said.

The crews were on the scene for about 40 minutes, leaving after a cat that had been missing "for a while" was located, Zack said.

Nine vehicles responded from the Cos Cob, central, Sound Beach and North Street stations, McDonald said.

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Joe Conti made the rounds in Harrisburg last week. And this week, the CEO of the Pennsylvania Liquor Control Board will go a few rounds with the media as he pushes back against privatization of the commonwealth's liquor monopoly and pushes for legislation claiming to bolster state coffers.

Mr. Conti is advocating for Senate Bill 1287, sponsored by Allegheny County Democrat Jim Ferlo and now sitting in the Senate Law and Justice Committee.

The measure would, among other things, give the LCB greater product markup authority, add new administrative fees, increase fines and allow lottery tickets to be sold in liquor stores. About $70 million in new annual state revenues are projected.

Conti says the bill would allow the LCB to operate like a modern, wholesale and retail business and deliver a greater return for all Pennsylvania taxpayers.

Wow, welcome to the 20th century. And do remember that this is the same LCB beast that lost its shirt on those hilarious wine-vending machines.

Now, Mr. Ferlo insists that the push for privatization is driven by media seeking advertising dollars. Actually, it's driven by the very fundamental precept that government should not be in the liquor business (or any business other than administrating bona fide public services).

It's long past time to stop these LCB charades. Let's get on with privatization. Let's join the 21st century.

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WHO assistant director-general of health security and environment, Dr. Keiji Fukuda

Despite recommendations by the US on data censorship, the UN health body has asked scientists to publish the details of their study on a deadly flu virus strain.

After an urgent meeting between 22 elite global health experts in Geneva, the World Health Organization (WHO) urged scientists to publish their full discoveries about the lab developed H5N1 avian Flu strain.

The recommendation was issued after the US National Science Advisory Board for Biosecurity (NSABB) asked scientists to censor data on their lab-made version of bird Flu.

The articles included a study by Yoshihiro Kawaoka and colleagues at the University of Wisconsin-Madison in the US who submitted their paper to Nature and a Dutch team led by Dr. Ron Fouchier from the Erasmus Medical Centre in Rotterdam, who wrote for Science.

NSABB said bioterrorist groups could potentially misuse the published research “for harmful purposes,” since the strain is possibly capable of spreading rapidly among humans.

Most of the UN panel members, however, believe that any theoretical risk of the virus being used by terrorists was far outweighed by the “real and present danger” of similar flu viruses in the wild.

“There is a preference from a public health perspective for full disclosure of the information in these two studies. However there are significant public concerns surrounding this research that should first be addressed,” said WHO assistant director-general of health security and environment Dr. Keiji Fukuda.

The WHO-convened panel emphasized that sharing the results among world scientists could help them identify the exact changes that might show whether a virus is developing the ability to cause a pandemic.

The group also announced that two controversial articles temporarily shelved would not be redacted and published in the near future, as originally planned. The research may be fully published at a later date instead.

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