North Carolina: Recruiting office fire likely arson
Saturday, August 19 2006 @ 03:50 PM CDT
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ASHEVILLE, NC — Investigators are now considering arson as the cause of a fire at the U.S. Armed Forces Recruiting Station on Regent Park Boulevard. Military office fire may have been setby Adam Behsudi, ABEHSUDI@CITIZEN-TIMES.COM
published August 18, 2006 12:15 am
ASHEVILLE, NC — Investigators are now considering arson as the cause of a fire at the U.S. Armed Forces Recruiting Station on Regent Park Boulevard.
“All the accidental causes have been ruled out, so it’s being deemed an arson fire,” Buddy Thompson of the Asheville-Buncombe Arson Task Force, said Thursday.
Firefighters found the Tuesday fire inside a storage closet in the Marine recruiting offices. Smoke from the fire also damaged recruiting offices for the Army, Navy and Air Force in the same building.
Thompson said the fire caused about $50,000 worth of property damage.
He said samples of what might be flammable liquids were sent to the State Bureau of Investigation in Raleigh.
Thompson said the building was locked when fire crews responded about 7 a.m.
“Our office is pretty much destroyed,” said Gunnery Sgt. Scott Guise, who is now working out of the Hendersonville Marine recruiting station with the Asheville staff.
Guise said he could not detect any kind of vandalism among the damage, or any sign that the fire might have been made as a war protest.
He said he didn’t know when the recruiting station would reopen.
