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Nursing Home Battles Exploding Toilets

Wednesday February 27, 2008

Don't Flush!

The toilets are going boom at the Regency Auburn Rehabilitation Center in Washington and 72 nursing home residents are being moved, as firefighters fight a malfunctioning boiler.

A recent blast from one of the lavatories set off the sprinkler system and flooded the three-story building -- and authorities quickly determined that this was no ordinary case of bad gas. Read more . . .

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