The first is caused by a fireplace, while the second is caused by some other means.
Initial reports suggested the fire was caused by improperly discarded fireplace embers, which The Associated Press reported this week were removed so the children wouldn't worry about Santa Claus coming down the chimney.
The source was a slow burning fire in the joist under the floorboards, which had been caused by a cracked hearth in the fireplace.
The prosecutor, David Cohen, who is the state's attorney in Stamford, said in a statement that the fire, which killed Grace and Sarah Badger, 7-year-old twins; Lily Badger, 9; and their grandparents Lomer and Pauline Johnson, was most likely caused by the disposal of fireplace ash in a paper bag on the first floor of the house, which was undergoing extensive renovations.
And, finally, a preliminary finding that the fire was caused by embers discarded from a fireplace that warmed the home on Christmas Eve.
So, on one early externalist theory of knowledge, it was suggested that an agent might know a certain sort of proposition (e.g. that there is a fireplace here) if their belief that there is a fireplace here was caused by a reliable causal process (e.g. a normal visual system)—and not, e.g., by the interventions of wicked scientists fiddling with the subject's brain.
This ban was enforced because of the low heating efficiency of open fireplaces (less than 20% of a log's energy ends up as heat in the room), and the heavy air pollution caused by not burning the logs properly.
Civilian casualties caused by N.A.T.O.
(It was caused by something).
1,572 deaths caused by guns.
