Attempt to kill spider starts house fire in California

Tuesday, January 9, 2018
REDDING, Calif. -- A warning to people with arachnophobia: here's one way you don't want to kill a spider.

Firefighters were called to a home in Northern California where someone had used a large torch lighter to fight back against a spider.
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Instead, they lit their bed on fire.

The flames then spread throughout their apartment.
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No one was hurt, but the people living there are now displaced all because of an itsy bitsy spider.
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