Heat of Hunter's Fire Breaks Boulder; It Falls, Killing Him
http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2015...eath.html?_r=0
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WHARTON, W.Va. — A hunter died when heat from his fire broke apart a massive overhanging boulder, tumbling on the man and nearly killing his neighbor as well, West Virginia State Police said Tuesday.
Donnie Barker III, 25, died at the scene Monday afternoon, the start of the buck firearms season in the state, Senior Trooper G.S. Walter said.
Barker and the other hunter — his neighbor, Steven Lee Setser, 19 — had built the fire beneath a sandstone boulder sitting atop a rock, Walter said. The heat apparently split the boulder in half and it landed on Barker, Walter said.
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Watch where you build your fires!