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Several people were treated for smoke inhalation at an apartment building fire in Sioux Falls, S.D. While firefighters were battling the blaze and treating the injured, a man ran back into the building during the lunchtime fire. He wasn’t trying to save a child, or even a pet. “It is not advisable to push past PD and Fire in an attempt to ‘save your beer’,” Sioux Falls Police broadcast in a Tweet. Indeed, police say, when Michael Casteel, 56, ran back out of the burning building, he was carrying two cans of Bud Ice beer. He was arrested, charged with obstruction and — with a measured blood alcohol level of .082 percent — violating a court-ordered sobriety program. “This incredibly poor judgement could have put many responders at risk,” police said. (RC/KELO Sioux Falls) ...Your life may be worth more than two beers; his may differ.