Tuesday, December 20, 2011

House fire at 1820 Crest Drive

1820 Crest Drive burned this morning. Fortunately, no one was killed. According to NBC, firefighters are calling the fire "suspicious in nature." I hope it's not a case of arson, but it does seem a little odd that the whole house was engulfed so quickly. The house was bought at the peak of the bubble for $1.79 million and now Zillows at $1.05 million, so mortgage problems are always a possibility.

10 comments:

  1. Chestnuts burning on the open fire...AAARRGHHHHHH

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  2. Wow, that seems a bit mean-spirited and speculative. "Suspicious" doesn't necessarily mean arson, and arson doesn't presuppose the homeowners' involvment.

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  3. Speculative indeed.

    I don't mean to be mean-spirited, but something is not right here.

    Houses don't burn like that with the fire department standing there. There has to be more to the story. Either there was some accelerant or the fire department didn't know what they were doing.

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  4. Move along. Nothing to see here. Move along.

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  5. W.C.- "Houses don't burn like that with the fire dept standing there" Ohhh yes they do, specially with the fire dept doesn't try to put out the fire, that's YOUR EFD!!
    God forbid you have a fire in your home, you better be able to put out the fire yourself because more and more departments let homes burn to the ground because they know upon rebuild there will be a new tax base....ask the folks in high Valley Estates in Poway.

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  6. W. C.

    I would agree with both of your assumptions. A fire in an occupied single family dwelling normally dose not start and spread that quickly.

    The bigger and more important question here is why this fire burned out of control for hours. This house was less than a mile from the closest fire station, there was a fire hydrant right in front of the house, and at 6;30 AM there were no response delays.

    Even if massive amounts of accelerants were used. Under these circumstances, a competent and capable fire suppression company should be able to initiate a fire attack and effect a fire knock down in 10 minutes or less, maybe in extreme and difficult situations up to 20 minutes with the help of back up fire companies.

    This fire burned out of control for hours with dozens of firefighters on scene, the neighboring properties were literally flooded by ineffective exterior master firefighting streams.

    I have 25 years in this industry, and I have never seen such a complete loss under these circumstances. I do not have all the facts, but this in no way represents a competent and capable fire dept.

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  7. Now all the firemen have PTSD, including Mark Muir. They want more pension benefits!

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  8. the house next door also burned to the ground a couple of years ago.

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  9. When I saw this story on the news, I also questioned why the house was allowed to "burn to the ground" when firefighters were on the scene? Another house fire was covered, in San Diego? which was put out in 20 minutes, on the same broadcast, as I recall. . .

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  10. This house was engulfed by flames in a few minutes and a typical code compliant house would take 30 or more minutes. What caused this to happen seems to be the question that is more important than why the EFD chose to stand by defensively after confirming that all residents were accounted for and safe.

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