Luck seems to be a personal sort of thing, and good luck charms take all sorts of shapes: Horseshoes, four-leaf clovers, rabbits’ feet, voodoo sex spells…

Voodoo sex spells?

According to NYFD, that’s precisely what started the blaze which tore through a Brooklyn apartment building last week. Apparently one of the occupants fancies himself a voodoo priest, and a woman paid him a visit—and a $300 fee—to gain herself a bit of good luck. What it got her was sex in a bed surrounded by candles… which caught the bed linens on fire. And then their clothing. And then the rest of the apartment.

Rather than call the fire department right away, the so-called priest tried to put the fire out himself, carting water back and forth from the bathroom. Then this genius opened the door to the hallway, which allowed the fire to spread more quickly to other apartments in the building.

To make matters worse, there was a dispatching conflict with NYFD. Their first engine was sent to a location to help a police officer who had shot himself in the leg. Then, after a delay, the dispatchers realized the error and sent another engine to the burning building.

It took NYFD about seven hours to get things under control, and the damage was extensive. Part of the roof and the fourth floor collapsed, 20 firefighters were injured, almost 50 families lost their homes, and one woman lost her life.

It sounds like the only person getting lucky was that supposed priest.

Image by WNBC-TV.

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