Lamp starts fire in home

A DALTON couple escaped a fire at their home.

Andy Flynn, watch manager at Huddersfield fire station, said: "They were very lucky as the only smoke alarm was in the attic."But the topper came with Oklahoma's first architectural use of light, as recorded in the National Register of Historic Places. The engineer in Atkinson built 48 second-floor flood lamps into the gray Bedford limestone skin, the 500-watt bulbs sending vertical colored shafts up the limestone to the roof, where another 78 lights hidden in ornamental cornices created a golden crown."Night Caf�" depicts the interior of a pool in Arles' Place Lamartine. A more striking van Gogh canvas would be difficult to find, but no one could call this particular picture beautiful. It was the artist's intention to show the lowest edge of humanity, without adornment, with as much impact and sincerity as possible.The woman had been working late and returned home to find smoke coming from upstairs.A stark black and white clock depends in the background, impossible to miss. It is almost a quarter past midnight in this desolate scene. "Night Caf�" is one of Vincent's most powerful communications through art of the human condition and human emotions.

Andy Flynn, watch manager at Huddersfield fire station, said: "They were very lucky as the only smoke alarm was in the attic."