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PRINCE GEORGE'S COUNTY (Maryland) COURTHOUSE FULLY ENGULFED IN FIRE!
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Posted on 11/03/2004 6:17:39 AM PST by SoFloFreeper

JUST BREAKING!! FIRE ALL OVER THE PLACE!


TOPICS: News/Current Events; US: Maryland
KEYWORDS: courthouse; fire; princegeorges; princegeorgescounty
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To: SoFloFreeper

Fox News just reported: STARTED on the ROOF! Was it lightning there lately?
Sounds suspiciously like arson, doesn't it?


61 posted on 11/03/2004 6:27:58 AM PST by Grendel9
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To: SoFloFreeper

Wow, that's got to be seriously investigated. As I recall, that courthouse is part of a much larger, almost brand new complex. I'm assuming that the contractors followed fire safety regs - which should have prevented something this big...


62 posted on 11/03/2004 6:28:05 AM PST by GunnyB (Once a Marine, Always a Marine)
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To: sitetest

Is that where "The Wire" is filmed?


63 posted on 11/03/2004 6:28:12 AM PST by RtWngr
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To: Corin Stormhands

I stopped by my family homestead in Alabama during my move this summer, pulling into town I saw my uncle riding down the road on a mule.

I never lived there mind you, my dad left years before I was even a twinkle in his eye.


64 posted on 11/03/2004 6:28:45 AM PST by Gamecock (GRPL: No secret handshakes, passwords, or rituals. Just God's Holy Word. (but with a cool logo!))
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To: Talking_Mouse

My mom used to work there, sounds like arson to me. The timing is certainly suspiscious.


65 posted on 11/03/2004 6:28:50 AM PST by Braak (The US Military, the real arms inspectors!)
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To: Quilla

Here is a link from WTOP - http://wtop.com/index.php?nid=25&sid=319426


66 posted on 11/03/2004 6:29:27 AM PST by Mfkmmof4
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To: SoFloFreeper

Smells like...Victory!


67 posted on 11/03/2004 6:29:31 AM PST by Stonedog (Mr. Blather... tear down this STONEWALL!!)
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To: Unknown Freeper

68 posted on 11/03/2004 6:29:59 AM PST by Quilla
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To: SoFloFreeper

Did anyone see a Kerrorist leaving the scene?


69 posted on 11/03/2004 6:30:08 AM PST by 6ppc (Pajamas are for wimps! Freep naked!)
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To: GunnyB

A google news search reveals that their fire dept has management problems (on third chief in 3 weeks). (wash post article, afraid to post it).


70 posted on 11/03/2004 6:30:32 AM PST by Lokibob (All typos and spelling errors are mine and copyrighted!!!!)
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To: MissAmericanPie; SoFloFreeper
I used to work in fire investigation.

My money's with construction worker error. There are SO many things around a construction site that can cause a fire - careless plumber igniting a beam that smolders, space heater left on, unfinished wiring job short circuiting, tossed cigarette on all the McDonald's bags they stuff down the heating ducts . . .

I've personally investigated fires with those causes . . . yes, including the McDonald's bags (if you're smart, when you buy a house you'll take off the duct covers and look in there . . . yecch!)

71 posted on 11/03/2004 6:31:04 AM PST by AnAmericanMother (. . . Ministrix of ye Chace (recess appointment), TTGC Ladies' Auxiliary . . .)
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To: Gamecock

Wife's family still owns the homestead in SW Virginia. We don't trace it back too far, 'cause we might be related. But you know all those articles about the Scot-Irish that settled and never moved? Yeah, that's us.

Family claim to fame is that goober that flew his single engine plane into the White House when Clinton was there. He was a distant cousin of my mother-in-law.


72 posted on 11/03/2004 6:31:39 AM PST by Corin Stormhands (Thank You God...for delivering us from "President Kerry!")
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To: Stonedog

Dems having their own little morning-after Reichstag?


73 posted on 11/03/2004 6:31:49 AM PST by Jhensy
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To: Mfkmmof4
From your link:


74 posted on 11/03/2004 6:31:53 AM PST by Quilla
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To: Red Badger
ELIZABETH EDWARDS!!!!!!PAGING ELIZABETH EDWARDS!!!!!!

I feel kind of foolish sitting here by myself belly laughing. But, considering it is about Elizabeth Edwards I guess that is appropriate.

75 posted on 11/03/2004 6:32:35 AM PST by jamaly
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To: Jhensy
Dems having their own little morning-after Reichstag?

Looks that way, huh? Expect rioting and looting after Kerry's concession speech. Lock and load.

77 posted on 11/03/2004 6:33:39 AM PST by Stonedog (Mr. Blather... tear down this STONEWALL!!)
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To: GunnyB
If construction workers followed fire safety regs, I would have starved to death as a fire investigator!

We did occasionally get an arson, but those are mostly insurance fraud.

I do recall one case (not mine) where a couple of felons burned down the Fayette County GA courthouse on the mistaken impression that if there wasn't a courthouse they couldn't be tried . . . that was a pity because it was the oldest courthouse in GA, with a hand-hewn pine main beam some 85 feet long. They did save the beam and made it into a bench . . .

We'll just have to wait for the word, I guess. But given that it was under construction, that's where the smart money will bet pending the arrival of the fire investigator . . .

78 posted on 11/03/2004 6:34:03 AM PST by AnAmericanMother (. . . Ministrix of ye Chace (recess appointment), TTGC Ladies' Auxiliary . . .)
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To: SoFloFreeper

Fire Threatens To Destroy Prince George's County Courthouse

POSTED: 9:25 am EST November 3, 2004

UPPER MARLBORO, Md. -- Prince George's County firefighters are struggling to contain a rapidly-spreading three-alarm blaze that's engulfed most of the historic county courthouse in smoke and flames.

Fire and EMS spokesman Chauncey Bowers says the fire on the 14-thousand block of Main Street in Upper Marlboro began on the roof, in an older section of the building that's been under renovations.

Bowers says about 100 firefighters are on the scene, where they're battling high winds that are fanning the blaze. Broadcast pictures show a massive plume of black and gray smoke, along with flames shooting into the air.

It's not clear what caused the fire. Authorities don't believe anyone has been hurt.

A spokesman for the county's state's attorney's office says land records and criminal cases are at risk.


79 posted on 11/03/2004 6:34:29 AM PST by michigander (The Constitution only guarantees the right to pursue happiness. You have to catch it yourself.)
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To: Quilla
OMG!!

That's terrible.....

Hope everyone got out ok..
80 posted on 11/03/2004 6:34:39 AM PST by OXENinFLA
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