My name is Bond, Flames Bond!

From The Times Online:
As befits a James Bond tale, mystery surrounds the survival of several unique and expensive pieces of film equipment caught up in the blaze that destroyed the 007 set at Pinewood Studios yesterday.
The fire in the corrugated metal warehouse-like stage wiped out three different sets that had been transformed into Venice for several final scenes in the new Bond film Casino Royale.
One of them was a house that tilted into the water with the help of a complicated hydraulics system, which used four specially-made valves of which there are only eight in the world.
The valves had been flown into England under armed guard from America and production bosses were yesterday waiting to get the all clear to get onto the set to see if they had survived the fierce fire that took two hours to get under control.
An insider at the 007 set told Times Online: "The tilting house is used in the run up to the exciting end of the film and it involves a complicated hydraulics system.
"That system needs four valves that were flown in specially and were looked after by armed guards all the way because they are so valuable.
"They are made to certain specifications and there are only eight of them in the world, now there may only be four of them. We were shooting on Friday so I would be surprised if anyone had been able to get them out.
The new Bond actor, Daniel Craig, had been filming at the 007 stage more than a week ago and the sets were being dismantled when the fire broke out.
Firefighters, who had to deal with exploding gas cylinders, took almost two hours to bring the blaze under control and a Buckinghamshire Fire Brigade spokesperson said that no-one will be allowed onto the site until this afternoon at the earliest.
No-one would say if they had seen a short, bald man with a scar running down the right side of his face and carrying a white cat running from the scene on Sunday.

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