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National Weather Service Bakes Cookies In Hot Car In Texas
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Emergency Slide Falls From Plane, Hits Chicago Home
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By Ben Hooper
July 18 (UPI) -- A Chicago family had a lunchtime sur- prise when an evacuation slide fell from a plane approaching O'Hare International Airport and struck their house.
Homeowner Patrick Devitt said he was on his way to his family's home on the Northwest Side when his son and father-in-law, who were inside the house, heard a loud noise around 12:15 p.m. Monday.
"So it hit right there on the downspout and came straight down," Devitt told WBBM-TV.
Devitt said the slide caused damage to the roof shin- gles, downspout and a kitchen window screen before ending up in the back yard.
Devitt dragged the slide to the front of the home.
"When it's all stretched out, like, it's a little jumbled up. I'm sure, in the picture, from when we dragged it out, it's larger than a small car. It's a very, very big piece of equipment that fell," he told WLS-TV.
The family called 911 and a Federal Aviation Administration team arrived about 30 minutes later.
The FA A confirmed crews at O'Hare discovered a United Airlines Boeing 767 that had just landed from Switzerland was missing its emergency slide.
The FA A and United Airlines are investigating what caused the slide to fall from the plane.
"I'm stunned a little bit. I'm just glad that everybody is safe and OK. Just, just see- ing that in my back yard, like wow. This really hap- pened. It fell off of an air- plane and landed in our back yard," Devitt said.
By Ben Hooper
July 20 (UPI) -
- National Weather Service personnel in Texas put the record heat wave to good use by baking a batch of cookies on the dashboard of a hot car.
The NWS' office in Midland said in a Facebook
post it was about
105 degrees F outside and 190 degrees inside the car when the cookie dough was placed on the dashboard.
The cookies were left to cook for about 4 1/2 hours.
The NWS said the cookies weren't quite "golden brown," but they were
fully cooked.
"Can confirm they are done and delicious," NWS employees wrote.
Officials said the project highlights the dangers of hot cars.
"This heat is still incredibly danger- ous to anyone left in a hot car. Look before you lock," they wrote.
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