The home in which she sheltered with her husband and baby during the terrifyingly cold weather had no radiators; there was but a gas fire.
They will turn on the gas fire, and literally forget to light it.
If one buys a gas fire one connects it up to the gas main provided by the gas board.
As an example of how manufacture is organised, the resource book takes the case of a gas fire.
She used the middle room as a bedroom, in which she had a gas fire—a slightly more efficient source of heating.
One can turn off a gas fire, but one might have to keep a fire burning 24 hours a day.
The day after that, organised gangs move in and strip everything worth taking—sinks, radiators, gas fire, and so on.
She told me that already she is having to go to bed in the afternoon because she cannot afford to light her gas fire.
