and to extend condolences to the family of the departed,
and to their friends, schoolmates, co-workers and community.
Posted on 01/20/2015 8:29:37 PM PST by Tolerance Sucks Rocks
An executive at ScienceLogic, a company used to monitor the online networks of the FBI and the Department of Defense, among others, were missing Monday after a four-alarm fire destroyed his 16,000-square-foot Annapolis home.
Don Pyle, the chief operating officer at the Reston-based technology provider, and his wife Sandy, couldn’t be located, authorities said Monday. It took 85 firefighters nearly three-and-a-half hours to get the blaze under control and firefighters had yet to set foot inside the building, uncertain about its integrity, Monday afternoon.
Neighbors told The Washington Times the Pyles’ grandchildren may have been staying with them for the long holiday weekend. Mr. Pyle’s family confirmed they believed six people were unaccounted for, but did not give any indication of ages or whether any of the children were missing. Anne Arundel County Fire Department spokesman Capt. Russ Davies said the family had been to view the scene of the fire Monday morning.
Arson hasn’t been ruled out, and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives has been called in to investigate.
ScienceLogic has multiple contracts with government agencies, and is best known for its software that scans online networks to ensure they run efficiently. Before joining the firm in October, Mr. Pyle, 55, served as the chief executive officer of several other information technology companies. He was CEO at Netcordia, an IT company the National Security Agency and U.S. Army contracted with to manage their online networks, and Laurel Networks, which specializes in routers for telecommunications clients.
“There was a fire at his home last night and the case is under investigation,” said ScienceLogic representative Yama Habibzai, who declined further comment.
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtontimes.com ...
. . . which, of course, is why it is suspicious ...
This needs to be shouted from the rooftops.
The leftists are ramping up their calendar, because they know time is short.
I tell friends to look out for desperate, exteme moves by the left in the next year, like gun and bullet control.
The house is new, built 10 years ago.
It could very well be up to code (lord knows builders and statists are sticklers for every damn rule when building these days), and beyond.
That doesn’t mean it will survive or anyone inside will.
I think you mean, grandchildren were visiting grandparents.
And apparently, it was overnight.
Not a shock that no one would be either aware, or up and ready for a fire, especially if it started in the far reaches where no one could notice until too late.
Who knows, maybe it went boom (gas), but right where they were. A boom would be a good alarm, but not if in the wrong place!
Didn’t find much in the direction you requested.
Joined ScienceLogic in October, 2014, after taking five months off.
Profile:
New at the top: Don Pyle is chief operating officer at ScienceLogic
October 12, 2014
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Also in October, 2014, the Pyle’s listed an “investment property.”
The Pyles own a second home in Annapolis in the 700 block of Pilot House Drive. The property, in the city’s affluent Kingsport neighborhood, is for sale.
Travis Gray, a Realtor with Coldwell Banker, said he was hired by the Pyle family in October to sell the house. No one was home when a reporter visited the property Tuesday.
The Pyles purchased the two-story home in 2012 for $615,000, according to state tax records. The property was an investment, Gray said, and not the family’s home.
Gray said he worked with Sandy during the last three months, calling her “a really remarkable woman.” On Monday, he sent an email to her about the home’s listing. Soon afterward, he learned about the fire.
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This is the second property, not much of an investment.
https://www.coldwellbanker.com/property/704-Pilot-House-Drive-Annapolis-MD-21401-MLS-AA8490750
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intelius:
Donald W. Pyle, age 55
Sandra A. Pyle, age 63
Not that I have committed them to memory or anything:
In one of Matt's novels there is a scene where the Foreign Army shacks up in an abandoned mansion (I think they were Mongolians).
Obama's liason was there too: He had just procured a young girl to rape, and he just oversaw the mass murder of her family and other townspeople.
The young girl kills her would-be rapist with a fire poker in a spartan bedroom, but is confronted with a new quandary: how to escape the mansion? There were foreign troops all around her, and they'd all rape and murder her if they got the chance. Plus, she was on the second floor.
Her solution was too drag the mattress over to the fireplace in order to light the place on fire as a diversion, and she put on her attackers' heavy winter coat to soften the fall onto the snowy ground outside.
The entire mansion caught fire, and without water pressure or a fire department, burned to the ground, but not before the girl made her escape.
A little while later she came upon the gully full of dead bodies that were her friends and neighbors.
Skunk oil is added to natural gas so it easily detected long before it is at dangerous levels. Gas explosions were common 80 years ago, but they are rare now.
They call it Mercaptan here. One year a utility near by added way too much to the natural gas pipeline and had to go around with gas detectors because people who didn’t smell gas in their house before suddenly did.
Are you Miss Manners for assassins? LMAO
Not at all. What a horrible thing to say.
Saddam Hussein’s assassins went after families, even when overseas in Europe, etc. They took out a family of dissidents in the US before the war.
May they rest in peace... how awful.
Maybe it is an old historic home- those can go up real quick.
It was reported around 3:30 in the morning. Pictures in the DailyMail showed a blaze in every part of the huge house at once. To me, this seems like an accelerant fire.
What do you mean? It is very nice looking and well situated. Are you referring to the real estate per se, or speculating that they didn't own it long enough to make a large profit?
We had one down the street about 15 years ago. Townhomes. People buy them, turn the key, know nothing about the mechanics of the construction, and are out of the house most of the time except to sleep or maybe eat something first. Because the row was fairly recently built, this particular unit had settled in such a way that one of the gas lines developed a crack and was faintly hissing. By the time the homeowner noticed a crack in the foundation wall, the place was almost ready to blow the whole block to kingdom come.
Was he a friend of John Wheeler?
Bought the house in 2012 for $615,000
Listed 10/14/14 for $599,999
Best case scenario is a 15,000 loss, not including realtor fees and closing costs.
The second house was listed after his five month hiatus from work, and at the same time he was appointed COO at ScienceLogic, October 12, 2014.
Perhaps the house was used for something other than an investment. Maybe they were separated, maybe ...??
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