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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Binastro" data-source="post: 3174715" data-attributes="member: 111403">. If anyone doubts the power of the sun, I have just read an online report from the Evening Standard.' We've lost everything', say family after home destroyed by Nutella jar.They have just been left with the shirts on their back after blaze sparked by sunbeams focused by a glass jar on a windowsill.The damage is estimated at £250,000. Their pet Jack Russell terrier died.The light was focused on part of the floor which had a dolls house which caught fire and flames spread to the roof.The house looks basically just like a shell now.This is not the first time I've heard of such an event.One event was caused by a glass paperweight. And I've seen a magnifying make-up mirror concentrating the sun's rays producing great heat.Also of course a magnifying glass and even spectacles can start a fire.Maybe I'll see if I can set fire to a newspaper using a binocular.</blockquote>