A Seven-Year-Old, a Blow Torch and a Propane Cylinder

Police in British Columbia say a seven-year-old boy found a small blow torch inside his home on Sept. 18, worked out how to attach it to a propane cylinder, and set a fire going inside the house. That is the account Mounties gave, and it is the kind of detail that turns a routine safety warning into something harder to forget: not a lighter left on a counter, but a child assembling two pieces of household hardware into a working flame.