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Brooklyn Man Dies in Fire While Making Flavored Tobacco

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A Brooklyn man burst out of a burning building engulfed in flames after his basement exploded passed away. 

It was reported he was making flavored tobacco for hookah pipes when a container of highly-flammable acetone ignited. 
Investigators believed that caused the fire because the basement was not well ventilated.

You can read more about this story at the New York Post.