PVC Fence Saves Home from Fire.A 6-ft-high vinyl vinyl /vi·nyl/ (vi´nil) the univalent group CH2dbondCH—. vinyl chloride a vinyl group to which an atom of chlorine is attached; the monomer which polymerizes to polyvinyl chloride; it is toxic fence installed around a one-story home in North Port, Fla., protected the house from a forest fire on June 12 last year. The fire, started by lightning, destroyed acres of woodland and thousands of trees and would have taken the house too if the fence hadn't blocked and redirected the fire. The tongue-and-groove fence, installed two years earlier by homeowners Juliette Simmons and her nephew NEPHEW, dom. rel. The son of a person's brother or sister. Amb. 514; 1 Jacob's Ch. R. 207. Lorenzo Riccio, began to melt and bend with the heat, but never burned. The 318-ft-long fence was made by Westech Fence in Verb 1. fence in - enclose with a fence; "we fenced in our yard" fence inclose, shut in, close in, enclose - surround completely; "Darkness enclosed him"; "They closed in the porch with a fence" 2. Mt. Vernon, Ind IND Investigational new drug Therapeutics A status assigned by the FDA to a drug before allowing its use in humans, exempting it from premarketing approval requirements so that experimental clinical trials may be conducted. See Phase 1.2, 3 studies, Sponsorship. . The photo shows Lorenzo Riccio with the fence after the fire. It includes newly replaced sections and slightly bowed parts of the old fence. |
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