Attempt to kill spider starts house fire in Northern California

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

Firefighters in Redding were called to a home where someone had used a large torch lighter to fight back against a spider.

Instead, they lit their bed on fire.

The flames then spread throughout their apartment.

No one was hurt, but the people living there are now displaced all because of an itsy bitsy spider.
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