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Just The Aunt
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Username: Auntof13
Post Number: 3721
Registered: 1-2004
| | Posted on Wednesday, January 25, 2006 - 12:08 am: | 
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Does anyone know what number Lindsley? Someone I know lived on the street and I want to make sure it wasn't their parent's house. Before someone tells me to call and ask, the 'friend' and I haven't spoken in years. (since he broke up another friend's marriage and I wouldn't lie for him and her).
Does anyone know if the family needs anything?
Blaze destroys two-story house MAPLEWOOD: A two-story house was destroyed Sunday morning by a fire that started in the bathroom of a Lindsley Avenue home.
Authorities received a call at 9:51 a.m., and arrived to find smoke drifting from the second floor. The blaze was so intense that firefighters from Irvington and Millburn were called in. The occupants of the house were able to evacuate before firefighters arrived. No one was injured.
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Joan
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Username: Joancrystal
Post Number: 6950
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Thursday, January 26, 2006 - 4:45 pm: |
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Why don't you just drive (or walk) along that street? If the damage was as severe as you say, the house involved should be obvious to a passer-by. |
Just The Aunt
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Username: Auntof13
Post Number: 3752
Registered: 1-2004
| | Posted on Saturday, January 28, 2006 - 8:13 pm: |
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Joan-
I guess that would have been the obvious answer -to drive by. But I wasn't in South Orange when I posted the note. |
Bill232
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Username: Bill232
Post Number: 152
Registered: 3-2003
| | Posted on Sunday, January 29, 2006 - 9:30 am: |
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JTA- Where did you read the article? I cannot find it any local archives. |
Just The Aunt
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Username: Auntof13
Post Number: 3761
Registered: 1-2004
| | Posted on Sunday, January 29, 2006 - 3:23 pm: |
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It was in the Star Ledger 'Law and Order' section last Tuesday (24 January). Considering the fire actually happened a couple of days before that (Sunday), typical, but not unexpected, I didn't see anything in the Snooze Wreckered.
Here's a link to the 'blurb.' The story begins at the bottom of the first page.
http://www.nj.com/search/index.ssf?/base/news-1/1138081663114670.xml?starledger? nex&coll=1
(it might not work after 6 Feb because the archives are only free for two weeks from the date of the story) |
C Bataille
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Username: Nakaille
Post Number: 2424
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Sunday, January 29, 2006 - 6:47 pm: |
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It's actually pretty hard to start a serious fire in a bathroom given all the tile, porcelain and other non-flammable materials unless one is using candles. |
Just The Aunt
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Username: Auntof13
Post Number: 3768
Registered: 1-2004
| | Posted on Sunday, January 29, 2006 - 8:53 pm: |
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C
I agree! Another thought, from a friend of mine is somebody might have been freebasing. Can't be my old friend. He nor anyone in his family, did drugs. But, then again, they did rent out part of their house. |
Bill232
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Username: Bill232
Post Number: 153
Registered: 3-2003
| | Posted on Sunday, January 29, 2006 - 10:13 pm: |
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CB and JTA - Are you serious about doubting the origin and cause of the fire because it is alleged to have started in the bathroom? |
Just The Aunt
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Username: Auntof13
Post Number: 3775
Registered: 1-2004
| | Posted on Monday, January 30, 2006 - 1:56 am: |
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Bill-
No, I don't doubt it started in the bathroom. I'm thinking it might have been a short in the wiring. But as C mentioned, a bathroom does have a lot of porcelain. For a fire to be so intense other departments had to be called in, I'm guessing the fire started in the walls somehow.
I'm going to try to take a ride over there before I head back up to NY. |
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