A fire started at a Salt Lake City funeral home when the body fluids from a 600 pound man leaked out during the cremation process.
"In the process, some of the body fat had liquefied and leaked out ... and caused a fire similar to a grease fire," said Scott Freitag, a spokesman with the Salt Lake City Fire Department.
Fire officials stated that the fire got too hot and the man was so large, the liquids spilled out and started a fire.
"The fluids can be very flammable, kind of like a grease fire," said Scott Freitag. "It's been quite some time since we had some leakage like this, but it's not terribly uncommon to have extra smoke or flame from a large body."
Freitag says the funeral home will often call the fire department if it's about to burn a large body.
(This is not a joke, just weird news.)
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