Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2010/04/08
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Our friends in ex-Brooklyn lost a somewhat historic 3 story house due to the tenants downstairs not carefully with unused paint cans left on the porch 10 years ago. It was pretty bad. Fortunately no injury or fatality. Took them a year or so to recover stuff. The "joke" around here re: Eichler houses (of which we are living in one) is whether it is a "5 min" or "15 min" Eichler because they are post and beam constructed and Joseph Eichler used a lot of well-oiled mahogany paneling. On Wed, Apr 7, 2010 at 7:59 AM, Greg Lorenzo <gregj_lorenzo at hotmail.com>wrote: > > George Lottermoser writes: > > > > Such a sad tragedy. > > Any speculation on cause? > > > George, > > > > Not believed to be arson (the CFD and CPD Arson Squad spent the day there > yesterday before the house was demolished and fenced off). > > > > My guess is the cause is related to the renovations they had been doing. > They recently put in a lift and remodeled their kitchen to accommodate the > mother who was only able to get around in her wheelchair. > > > > Homes here are heated with natural gas and some of us have NG stoves and > clothes dryers. The local gas company arrived during the fire to turn the > NG > supply off as it too was burning. > > > > Ironic. > > -- // richard <http://www.imagecraft.com/> // icc blog: <http://imagecraft.wordpress.com> // photo blog: <http://www.5pmlight.com> [ For technical support on ImageCraft products, please include all previous replies in your msgs. ]