{"id":49612,"date":"2016-02-23T10:47:43","date_gmt":"2016-02-23T17:47:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=49612"},"modified":"2016-02-23T10:47:43","modified_gmt":"2016-02-23T17:47:43","slug":"burton-boys-accidentally-burn-historic-hut","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=49612","title":{"rendered":"Burton Boys Accidentally Burn Historic Hut"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-49614 size-thumbnail\" src=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/StoneHut-200x150.jpg\" alt=\"StoneHut\" width=\"200\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/StoneHut-200x150.jpg 200w, http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/StoneHut.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/>Jake<\/strong> and <strong>Donna Burton Carpenter&#8217;s<\/strong> sons\u00a0<strong>George<\/strong> and <strong>Timothy<\/strong>,\u00a0are apparently\u00a0responsible for accidentally torching <strong>Mount Mansfield&#8217;s<\/strong> historic <strong>Stone Hut<\/strong> just before Christmas, after getting the place warmed up for a friend who they thought was spending the night, according to a story in the <a href=\"https:\/\/vtdigger.org\/2016\/02\/19\/stowe-reporter-christmas-eve-stone-hut-fire-on-mt-mansfield-traced-to-carpenter-family\/\"><em><strong>Vermont Digger<\/strong><\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The brothers and a few friends \u201cbuilt the fire up really big\u201d in the wood stove, and brought in some wet wood from outside, which they leaned up against the stove to dry out, the report said. . . A few of the pieces were placed at an angle where the tip of the wood was against the stove and made a \u2018hissing\u2019 sound as the snow began to melt against it,\u201d the police report reads. . . The group left the hut and headed down the mountain at 2:40 p.m. About five hours later, they realized the friend they expected to spend the night at the hut didn\u2019t show up.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Sometime later, the Hut caught on fire, however, the fire was\u00a0not reported\u00a0until 7 AM the next morning by a lift mechanic. The Carpenters have <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wcax.com\/story\/31274367\/burton-family-pledges-to-help-rebuild-stone-hut\"><strong>reportedly pledged\u00a0$100,000 for the restoration of the hut<\/strong><\/a>. Pretty expensive way to learn that whole Smokey The Bear &#8220;never leave a fire unattended&#8221; thing.<\/p>\n<p><strong>[Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/vtdigger.org\/2016\/02\/19\/stowe-reporter-christmas-eve-stone-hut-fire-on-mt-mansfield-traced-to-carpenter-family\/\">Vermont Digger<\/a>]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jake and Donna Burton Carpenter&#8217;s sons\u00a0George and Timothy,\u00a0are apparently\u00a0responsible for accidentally torching Mount Mansfield&#8217;s historic Stone Hut just before Christmas, after getting the place warmed up for a friend who they thought was spending the night, according to a story in the Vermont Digger. The brothers and a few friends \u201cbuilt the fire up really [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49612"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=49612"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49612\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49615,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49612\/revisions\/49615"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=49612"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=49612"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=49612"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}