Talk about a claim to flame. Folks, we have another world record:
The other day, for the tenth time in his life, Joseph Maski, 103 years old, believed to be the oldest person in Chicago, was rescued from a fire which threatened to destroy the building in which he lived, at No. 8961, Superior Avenue, South Chicago. Maski was rescued from the Chicago fire in 1871, and has been in two theatre fires and several other small blazes.
– The Auckland Star, December 22, 1906
With my tendency for burning quinoa and his tendency for being in burning buildings, we should never meet.
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