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Jesus Malverde

(10,274 posts) Wed Feb 5, 2014, 06:53 PM Feb 2014

WOMAN DIES IN DAKOTAS WITH NO PROPANE TO HEAT HOME [View all]

Authorities on a North Dakota reservation are investigating whether a woman found dead in a mobile home with an empty propane tank died from the cold.

Debbie Dogskin's body was discovered Tuesday morning at her Fort Yates home.

Sioux County Sheriff Frank Landeis says the temperature on the Standing Rock Indian Reservation dropped to 1 degree below zero overnight.

Landeis says he believes Dogskin "just froze to death." Autopsy results are expected by Friday.

http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/U/US_PROPANE_SHORTAGE_DEATH?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2014-02-05-14-06-41

There are a lot of people out there hurting right now. Extend unemployment benefits would be a good start.

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WOMAN DIES IN DAKOTAS WITH NO PROPANE TO HEAT HOME [View all] Jesus Malverde Feb 2014 OP

There used to be a law against turning off essential utilities in spite of Cleita Feb 2014 #1

I bet she didn't have central gas BainsBane Feb 2014 #5

In a mobile home, she probably had a tank that the propane company Cleita Feb 2014 #8

No one should should suffer from the cold or freeze to death! In_The_Wind Feb 2014 #2

This really is a rotten country. SammyWinstonJack Feb 2014 #3

American deceptionalism. R. Daneel Olivaw Feb 2014 #15

Incidental, but what a bizarre headline. Brickbat Feb 2014 #4

More than likely it was 10� to 15� below zero, not -1� RC Feb 2014 #6

My brother in northern Minnesota Jenoch Feb 2014 #7

This was my very short experience with propane. Add in likely an old, leaky, uninsulated trailer libdem4life Feb 2014 #9

The sad thing is that it doesn't have to cost what they are charging. Cleita Feb 2014 #10

^^^THIS^^^ bvar22 Feb 2014 #13

A friend recently received 100 gallons for the price of $604 Kaleva Feb 2014 #11

If we gave the Native Americans some of their best land back .... Coyotl Feb 2014 #12

...and many of them just had their Farm Subsidies renewed in the same Fram Bill... bvar22 Feb 2014 #14

And they're flaring gas off Bakken wells... farmbo Feb 2014 #16

Strange world sometimes...nt Jesus Malverde Feb 2014 #17