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When you first see the Bordeaux electric fireplace, you might think, 'Gee, this looks like an attractive way to get a fireplace in my living room without installing a chimney. A real wood mantle! Actual heat! Remote-controlled convenience!'
But then you open the side panels to reveal hidden storage--for wine. Wine, right next to a heat source. And that heat source is capable of warming up to 400 square feet.
I can kind of get what manufacturer Muskoka is going for; after all, who doesn't enjoy a glass of wine while warming up next to the fire? And to the company's credit, half of the wine storage is in the form of the hardest-working 12-bottle wine fridge around.
However, as someone who's spent the last few months worrying about how much summer temperatures will affect some of my stored wines, I have a hard time accepting that anyone would pay $1,700 to keep their wines right next to a heater

Passer-by in blaze rescue Don Frame 3/ 9/2008 AN ELDERLY woman was rescued from a house blaze by a passing driver who borrowed ladders from a neighbour to get her to safety.
The unknown hero spotted smoke coming from the mid-terraced home on Manchester Road in Walkden, then saw the distressed pensioner at an upstairs bedroom window.
He immediately pulled up, got ladders and managed to help her out onto the flat roof above the bay window of the house where they stayed until fire crews arrived.
The householder was taken to hospital suffering from shock and the effects of smoke, but is not believed to have suffered serious injury.
Watch commander Darren Banks today praised the quick thinking of the driver. 'He did really well' he said. 'He wasn't a local lad, and just happened to be going past at the right time.'
He said it appeared the blaze in the lounge of the house had been caused by a cinder falling out of an open fireplace while the occupant was upstairs.
'She had apparently smelled smoke, but was trapped upstairs. A neighbour raised the alarm, and we were en route when the driver stopped.'
He said: 'There was no smoke detector fitted in the house, and no fire guard in the fireplace. Had there been, it probably would have kept any burning material in the hearth where it could do no harm.
'We would strongly advise anyone with an open fire to use an old fashioned guard, particularly now that colder weather is not far off.
'We would even advise people with electric or gas fires to use them - particularly if they have young children. There have been one or two instances of youngsters being burned by getting too close to a fire.'
He said: 'The fire service is happy to carry out a free fire risk assessment at any home, and fit free smoke detectors where appropriate. All people need to do is contact their nearest fire station.'

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