In May 1985, the Philadelphia police, trying to evict MOVE members from their fortified row-house, bombed the house, igniting the worst residential fire in the city's history.
In response, a police helicopter dropped explosives on a bunker atop the MOVE house, igniting a fire that destroyed 39 houses on Osage Avenue and 22 on adjacent Pine Street.
Imagine asking your self-driven car to open the door to your house, ignite the fireplace, set off ambient lighting and park itself in the garage when you return home from a busy day at work.
Walls of black smoke rolled down streets, past houses ignited by flaming debris.
Four indirect fatalities were confirmed in Texas, two from traffic accidents, one from a house fire ignited by a candle, and another from drowning.
Then came incidents of ineptitude, culminating with a police standoff with the radical group Move in which 62 row houses were ignited and 11 people were killed in a black working-class neighborhood in 1985.
Radiant heat from the house, at 30 Valley Road, ignited the house next door at 32 Valley Road.
Last June, the house burned, igniting two neighboring homes.
On the way, they saw a burning house, most likely ignited by a flying ember.
