Once the hole has been blasted open with hot water, a probe carrying an ultraviolet light will be lowered to sterilise its upper section.

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Hurst, however, was convinced that he had solved the mystery: when firefighters had blasted the porch with water, they had likely spread charcoal-lighter fluid from the melted container.

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And, after the killing of the Hebron settler, soldiers blasted the cave dwellings and water wells of Bedouins who live in the Hebron Hills.

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Elsewhere residents on Gansevoort Street pumped water out of blackened basements while others blasted Led Zeppelin and Pink Floyd in relative ease just blocks away.

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The whaling ship blasted its horns and turned on its water cannons, which sent powerful jets overboard.

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She blasted the air conditioning and spritzed the bird with water after zoo staff instructed her to keep it cool.

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