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SUV ruled out as fire source ("...he can't imagine the SUV started the fire"
Poughkeepsie Journal ^ | 2.26.04

Posted on 02/25/2004 10:52:18 PM PST by ambrose

Edited on 05/07/2004 8:04:19 PM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]

A day after a large fire destroyed seven City of Poughkeepsie businesses, investigators Wednesday ruled out a possible cause of the fire and reopened South Avenue.

A state expert in investigating automobile fires joined city firefighters and investigators from Dutchess County Wednesday afternoon to help determine the cause of a fire. Before the Office of Fire Prevention and Control expert's arrival, investigators had ruled out several possible accidental causes.


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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption
KEYWORDS: maneatingsuv; notansuvattack; suvattack

1 posted on 02/25/2004 10:52:18 PM PST by ambrose
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To: ambrose
It was such a quiet, peaceful vehicle...it always kept to itself.
2 posted on 02/25/2004 10:56:35 PM PST by RichInOC (...udden udden...)
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To: ambrose
headlines: SUV cleared in major fire

Police tell SUV it is no longer a suspect in blaze

SUV not arsonist

3 posted on 02/25/2004 10:57:46 PM PST by GeronL (http://www.ArmorforCongress.com......................Send a Freeper to Congress!)
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To: RichInOC
Those darn SUV's, always causing trouble. Sometimes I see them hanging out around the liquor stores, with their greased up axles and cigarettes rolled up in their sleeves, just looking for trouble. Someone really should do something about those darn punk SUV's.
4 posted on 02/25/2004 10:59:30 PM PST by Elliott Jackalope (We send our kids to Iraq to fight for them, and they send our jobs to India. Now THAT'S gratitude!)
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To: ambrose
The SUV always runs amok on its own. Beastly ute!
5 posted on 02/25/2004 11:00:45 PM PST by goldstategop (In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives On In My Heart Forever)
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To: ambrose
I park my SUV in the parking lot across the drive from my apartment building, and boy am I glad now. Don't need it burnin' me alive.

With all the other reports on SUVs, I may need to chain it to the ground to keep it from driving away and committing all sorts of crimes.

I thought about disconnecting the battery, but she might pull a Christine and repair herself.
6 posted on 02/25/2004 11:02:46 PM PST by scott7278 ("...but speaking the truth in love, we are to grow up in all aspects into Him..." Eph. 4:15)
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To: ambrose
"We didn't start the fire..."
7 posted on 02/25/2004 11:04:34 PM PST by dfwgator
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To: ambrose
''It doesn't make sense,'' he said. ''If you cross a wire, you get a fire right away, not two hours later"

Not true! Depends on the short and where it is in the wiring harness, not all "Hot" wires are "hot" all the time' all switched wires are "cold" until switched on. A broken wire not a "True short" can arc for quite awhile before catching insulating material on fire, even then it can smolder for a long time before being noticed. What kind of SUV? Ford uses a sound insulator that smolders a long time when exposed to a small spark (one type used under the carpet is like juet, made up of cloth fiber and other material, real stinky when it burns, the other is fiberglass based;used mostly under the hood and body, which gives off little smoke and much less odor)

8 posted on 02/25/2004 11:15:06 PM PST by KingNo155
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To: dfwgator
The tire print didn't fit so they had to acquit!
9 posted on 02/25/2004 11:17:02 PM PST by codyjacksmom
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To: ambrose
SUV not SOL
10 posted on 02/26/2004 2:35:36 AM PST by Stallone (Guess who Al Qaeda wants to be President?)
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