Police Re-Think Cause Of Subway Fire
Jan 27, 2005 7:15 am US/Eastern
(1010 WINS) NEW YORK Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly emphasized that it remained unclear what started a fire that shut down several subway lines and destroyed a signal room, despite reports that a homeless person may have ignited the blaze.
``It is not determined as yet whether this fire was caused by a homeless person,'' Kelly told The New York Times for Wednesday editions. ``We don't know exactly how the fire started.''
Authorities had previously said they thought a homeless person set a shopping cart on fire in a tunnel near the Chambers Street station on Sunday, the second day of a blizzard. The blaze spread to a nearby equipment room, destroying a critical nerve center that controlled signals for the A and C lines.
``There's some notion floating out there that there are communities that live in the subway,'' Kelly said. ``That's simply not the case. There may have been 10 or 15 years ago, but that's not the situation now.''
Fire Department spokesman Michael Loughran said fire marshals were continuing their investigation into the fire's cause.
Transit officials said it would take three to three to six months to restore service on the affected subway lines, but that the signal room would not be fully repaired for three to five years.
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N.Korea Has Bought Complete Nuclear Bomb - Report
SEOUL (Reuters) - North Korea (news - web sites) appears to have bought a complete nuclear weapon from either Pakistan or a former Soviet Union state, a South Korean newspaper said on Thursday quoting a source in Washington.
Seoul Shinmun quoted the source as saying the United States was checking the intelligence.
The purchase was apparently intended to avoid nuclear weapons testing that could be detected from the outside, the source was quoted as saying.
North Korea is believed to have one or two nuclear weapons and possibly more than eight.
U.S. Congressman Curt Weldon said after a visit to the North this month that its second-ranked leader had told his delegation that it possessed nuclear weapons.
Pyongyang has declared that a nuclear reactor at Yongbyon, sealed under a 1994 agreement with the United States, had been restarted. Spent nuclear fuel from that reactor could be converted to weapons-grade material.
North Korea has never officially declared that it possessed atomic weapons, speaking instead of its "nuclear deterrent."
U.S. experts who visited the Yongbyon facility said spent plutonium previously stored there had been removed.
North Korea is suspected of running a separate program based on uranium enrichment technology, assisted by a former top Pakistani nuclear scientist.
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I'm glad they have re-opened their investigation. A homeless person, in my view at least, would not be cutting through 4-5 series of heavy locks and chains to find an interior control room. A homeless person would be seeking a safe(?), secluded and warm location.