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Display shows Santa’s disapproval of terror group

LIMERICK, Maine

Deputies paid a visit to a southern Maine home after its owner’s raunchy anti-terrorist Christmas light display was misconstrued as support for the Islamic State group.

The Portland Press Herald reported that the homeowner, who wasn’t identified, used lights to spell out the word “ISIS” on a board below the deck of the home in Limerick.

York County Sheriff William King said that was all a concerned resident saw when he notified the office of a potential “ISIS sympathizer.”

What he didn’t see, however, was the illuminated plastic Santa Claus placed atop the deck that appeared to be urinating on the word ISIS via a strand of white lights.

King said no laws were broken and the homeowner will rearrange the lights to “clear up any doubts about his message.”

Firefighters spray wrong plane with foam at Chinese airport

BEIJING

When crew members of a passenger plane reported sparks coming from an engine while taxiing at an airport in southern China, eight firetrucks responded within minutes. Then they covered the wrong plane with white foam.

The mistake at the Fuzhou city airport was quickly amended, and the firefighters turned their attention to the correct plane, but the other one – with passengers aboard – was delayed 10 hours, and the entire incident delayed 30 flights, the airport said in a statement.

The Air China flight had reported the problems in a right-side engine of a Boeing 737-800 for a flight headed to Beijing. By the time firefighters arrived four minutes later, engines were switched off. However, a Fuzhou Airlines plane of the same make had exhaust fumes coming from its tail.

The firefighters sprayed the Fuzhou Airlines plane with foam until the airport’s control center alerted them to the mistake, and then they sprayed the right plane, the airport said.

Christmas tree goes up in flames outside California hotel

COSTA MESA, Calif.

Fire tore through a 96-foot-tall Christmas tree outside a Southern California hotel, sending a bright chute of flames and then smoke into the air.

The tree outside the Westin South Coast Plaza hotel in Costa Mesa was destroyed early Monday. Photos showed just its burned-out shell still standing at the hotel near a popular shopping center.

Fire Capt. Chris Coates said the fire was extinguished shortly before 7 a.m. and that there were no injuries reported. The cause is under investigation.

The Orange County Register reported that officials asked hotel security to provide area surveillance video.

Associated Press