blowtorch
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Left behind on the street outside the Louvre was the truck, a jerry can, a blowtorch, angle grinders, a walkie-talkie and yellow vests.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 31, 2025
Police found an angle-grinder and a blowtorch at the scene.
From BBC ● Oct. 21, 2025
One man was caught using a blowtorch to incinerate debris in West Hills as the Kenneth fire raged above him, police said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 6, 2025
Imagine an image of a powerful firework exploding, spraying sparks, hot plasma and flames out like a blowtorch.
From Seattle Times ● May 22, 2023
He saw a huge ship in a dry dock, workers scrambling to finish the hull, a guy with a blowtorch welding a bronze dragon figurehead to the prow.
From "The Son of Neptune" by Rick Riordan
Firefighters were eventually forced to melt it down after fans attempted to thaw the sculpture with blowtorches and chip away at it with sledgehammers.
From BBC ● May 15, 2026
Employees told firefighters that work was being performed on the roof earlier that day and that roofers had been using blowtorches to melt down material, according to reporting from KTLA.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 7, 2026
Renaldo said workers were using blowtorches on the building’s exterior before the fire and that heat may have transferred through brick or mortar to the interior and ignited paper or other combustibles.
From Seattle Times ● Mar. 1, 2023
A similar technique called flame-weeding, which involves outfitting tractors with blowtorches, is still a little too volatile for widespread adoption in the United States.
From New York Times ● Aug. 18, 2021
He climbed a set of concrete steps to a higher floor where people worked on rebar with blowtorches.
From "Boy 2.0" by Tracey Baptiste
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