When I was in my teens, I spent several years on staff at our local Girl Scout camp. One summer, we had a fire in the main lodge. The story as I remember it now is that a stove in a storage room ignited paint cans that were stored there. The stove should not have been operable; spray paint shouldn’t have been stored there. Nobody was really at fault, but it had costly consequences. The entire camp was evacuated, fire trucks came in with sirens blaring, and lots of girls cried in......

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