Discarded embers likely cause of Connecticut blaze that killed 5

http://www.cnn.com/2011/12/27/us/connecticut-christmas-fire/?iref=obinsite ^

[juliej]

Can you imagine how the father of the girls must feel? They were filing for a divorce. I will be he wishes the kids had stayed with him in NYC.

[angcat]

Greenwich in the past held the title of the “richest residents” in the country. I’m not sure if that is still the case. I know Hunterdon Counry NJ was in the running with them.

[Justa]

Hah, I lived on Sheephill road, Riverside years ago. Went to the Mead school at the Second Congregational Church of Greenwich. We’d play hide-and-seek in the church and auditorium after school, sit on the brick wall and drink our sodas while watching traffic, etc. Fun stuff.

Went back a year ago during a road trip. I was actually able to drive to our old house via I-95 from memory. Sheephill road was over-developed with little of what I remembered. I’ll stick with my memories.

[livius]

Greenwich is a perfectly nice place. I grew up in NYC but I worked with many people who came down from there and they were all very nice. What’s with the Greenwich hatred? I don’t understand it.

Aside from that, I think the guy probably did try to go back to the girls and probably there was a blast of heat that drove them apart. Also, their grandparents were on another floor and were looking and calling for them, and I bet they ran to their grandparents (whom they knew and trusted better, because I don’t think the boyfriend had been around that long). In any case, who knows how any of us would have reacted?

It’s just a terrible, terrible thing, and all we should do is pray for everybody involved.

[moose-matson]

Greenwich hatred is easy to understand...there are a lot of freepers who show clear signs of class envy...depending on who makes the money.

[trisham]

This story is odd. Why would someone discard ashes after 3 AM? Anyone who has ever had a fireplace wouldn’t do that. They would wait until the next morning at least, and then place the ashes in a metal ash bucket that has a tight metal lid, which is usually kept on the hearth.

[Agamemnon]

Way cool! Greenwich is still a very pretty town with alot of charm. Some places have a way of changing over time, but Greenwich still retains alot of its original quality. Now correct me if I'm wrong, Second is the "Church on the Hill," right? Renowned and supremely talented singer/songwritier/arranger, Rob Mathes, did his very first Christmas concerts there years ago, but he has been doing them over at SUNY Purchase for the last up-teen years. Love his stuff. He just completed all the arrangements for Sting's "Symphonicities" in fact.

No telling who this ignorant boob is on this thread that has it so in for dumping on Greenwich, but lest one speak too hastily we should be reminded that the Bush family was originally from Greenwich (Sen. Prescott Bush - father of "41" and grandfather of "43") and the US Presidents-to-be grew up there as well.

JulieJ's perspective sounds more like they're just another envious little Democrat writing from some pustule of beggar-thy-neighbor unionism like Bridgeport or New Haven, or maybe from some impoverished little enclave for illegals next door in Port Chester, NY.

FReegards!

[Agamemnon]

Way cool! Greenwich is still a very pretty town with alot of charm. Some places have a way of changing over time, but Greenwich still retains alot of its original quality. Now correct me if I'm wrong, Second is the "Church on the Hill," right? Renowned and supremely talented singer/songwritier/arranger, Rob Mathes, did his very first Christmas concerts there years ago, but he has been doing them over at SUNY Purchase for the last up-teen years. Love his stuff. He just completed all the arrangements for Sting's "Symphonicities" in fact.

No telling who this ignorant boob is on this thread that has it so in for dumping on Greenwich, but lest one speak too hastily we should be reminded that the Bush family was originally from Greenwich (Sen. Prescott Bush - father of "41" and grandfather of "43") and the US Presidents-to-be grew up there as well.

JulieJ's perspective sounds more like they're just another envious little Democrat writing from some pustule of beggar-thy-neighbor unionism like Bridgeport or New Haven, or maybe from some impoverished little enclave for illegals next door in Port Chester, NY.

FReegards!

[Agamemnon]

I see you are from Yonkers. Used to work at Purdue Frederick Research Center back in the '80's when they were still at 99-101 Saw Mill River Road ... down the street from Carvel, across from the cemetary near Macknowski Insurance, and always got my dinner take-out from Italian City Deli on Lockwood on my way up to Valhalla when I went to do my grad school night classes at New York Medical College.

FReegards!

[angcat]

Small world. Have you seen Lockwood lately. We took our daughter to a Yankee game and my husband wanted to see his childhood home and stop at Capri Pizza. We were afraid to get out of the car. The garbage was relocated from South Yonkers to North and that part is ruined. We did go in and we took two pies back to PA. Anyway we use to walk to Carvel believe it or not when we were teens. About a mile from our home.

[juliej]

You are a racist and a jerk to boot. Merry Christmas. And put Mark Fuerman’s book, Murder in Greenwich in your Christmas stocking. You are a troll.

[Agamemnon]

You are a racist and a jerk to boot. Merry Christmas. And put Mark Fuerman’s book, Murder in Greenwich in your Christmas stocking. You are a troll.

Yep, looks like I just smoked you out. Funny thing is I said nothing about "minorities" at all, yet in your mind you equated the term "race" with the term "illegals." Very revealing. Uniquely democrat. Pathologically liberal.

But no surprise, really. You got busted as just another knows-nothing-but-pretends-they-know-something, envious little Democrat liberal with a penchant for slinging around a race card.

You guys make it all too easy sometimes: that nasty envy streak that defines you blows your cover every time.

Oh , and by the way one of your homies just called -- said you're late for your next "Occupy Greenwich" meeting.

[juliej]

You are a despicable ahole. I note your use of the word “homies”. You are outed as a racist. And I don’t believe you an active tea partier. We are not a racist group - you are. Now enjoy reading Mark Fuhrman’s book - you might learn something. And I am not a Democrat - but I think you are a sad little man who lives in his mom’s basement.

[Agamemnon]

You are a despicable ahole. I note your use of the word “homies”. You are outed as a racist.

JJ baby, so you conveniently failed to notice that all your pretentious, spoiled, envious little "Occupy" homies are predominantly packed with liberal-bastard, 60's-retread white toast, did you?

And I don’t believe you an active tea partier. We are not a racist group - you are.

Funny, I don't recall anyone on this thread mistaking you for being a tea party member. For all any of us care you could just be one of those envious little racist Judas-snakes slithering amongst some otherwise well-intentioned tea-partiers.

.... And I am not a Democrat ...

Most readers on this thread smelled you when you showed up. You've fooled no one.

- but I think you are a sad little man who lives in his mom’s basement.

Sorry, wrong again. You've apprently mistaken me for your boyfriend.

[reaganaut]

Don’t bother, JJ thinks Romney is pro-life.

[Agamemnon]

Haven't seen Lockwood in quite a while. I remember Capri's too! I was living in Stamford, CT and commuting to work on "the Merritt", "the Hutch" and Cross County Pkwys when Yonkers instituted that income surtax for the "privilege" of working in Yonkers. It was also about the same time they moved all the public housing off the waterfront to make way for the mob! Coincidence?

[Palladin]

“Ash can” — only us old geezers remember those and what they were for.

I’m surprised that the grandpa didn’t clue in the two lovebirds on how to dispose of the ashes.

What an awful tragedy!

And no smoke detectors to boot? Some folks have very little common sense.

It’s like that woman in PA. last winter who went out to milk the cows at 10 p.m. and left two toddlers alone and playing in a room with a space heater. Her seven children burned to death.

Dear God! Please don’t let anything like that happen again this winter!

[juliej]

That’s because he is - and I am on the board of a cpc. Happy New Year.

[juliej]

Oh Agamemnon - did I hurt your widdle feewings? Go back to mom’s basement and sulk. You have deep emotional and mental problems in addition to a problem with self-aggrandizement.

[reaganaut]

No he isn’t. His own quotes can prove that. He is lying as always to get votes.

Ansel, Colo, do either of you have Mitt’s flip flop chart handy on abortion?