Alcohol was involved...

“There were several items on fire inside the kitchen including some towels … [the man] showed no regard for his safety or well-being by staying in the house even as it filled with smoke.”

To be honest, I'm impressed that he was even able to set the place on fire, much less answer the door after drinking two quarts of vodka in three hours. He should have been comatose. So far as showing a lack of regard for his own safety, it may well be that that a man who can keep his feet after that is also immune to smoke inhalation.

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A 19-year-old man in Chicago who had been too drunk to notice he’d been shot in the chest the night before showed up to a hospital Tuesday...

Doves...

Both of the juvenile Doves are still alive and doing well. I thought one had perhaps been eaten by one of the local Hawks when I found a feather on the driveway, but they're both still in good shape as of this afternoon. I went to sit on the front steps, and about 30 seconds or so after I came out, first one then the other emerged from the front shrubbery, where I'm assuming they took refuge when they saw the door opening. They keep about five or six feet distance, but otherwise seem fairly comfortable with my presence. Both were picking and scratching for food in quite a relaxed fashion after they saw it was only me. One (the younger? It's getting hard to tell now) did a really weird, elaborate wing stretch right in front of me.

Doves: "Meh. It's only him."