Arson or cigarette??
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Arson or cigarette??
Lots of members been talking about shipping Vettes. Fortunately, no Vettes were on this carrier. Small town in nowhere Pennsylvania. (Schuylkill County) Population of town, perhaps 10,000.
Damages in car carrier fire may reach $150K
BY FRANK ANDRUSCAVAGE
STAFF WRITER
fandruscavage@republicanherald.com
09/07/2007
MAHANOY CITY - Damages could reach as high as $150,000 in a fire that severely damaged a car carrier and two sports cars in Mahanoy Township on Wednesday night.
Ronald Lindenmuth parked the 1994 Volvo car carrier loaded with two Volkswagen and five Audi high-end vehicles only to receive a telephone call hours later telling him that the truck and some of the cars were ablaze.
On Thursday, Lindenmuth and Gilberton-Mahanoy Township Regional Police Patrolman Lawrence Fisher examined the charred remains of the vehicles that included the tractor portion of the car carrier and two Audi Q7 sports cars.
Lindenmuth said the cars each had a sticker price of $57,895, while the truck was estimated to be valued between $20,000 and $25,000.
Lindenmuth said he returned from Rhode Island on Wednesday and parked the truck around 1 p.m.
He said he then washed the tractor, did several other odd jobs and went home, planning to return later that evening to deliver the cars to a dealership in Ohio.
It was just after 6 p.m. when the Schuylkill County 911 Center received a call about the fire and dispatched fire crews from Mahanoy City.
On scene, firefighters found the truck and one of the Q7 vehicles engulfed in flames.
Lindenmuth said the Audi Q7 directly above the tractor was destroyed, while the Q7 directly behind it was heavily damaged.
He said that he did not experience any mechanical problems with the truck while driving it or when he parked it at his garage just off of Route 54, east of the Mahanoy City borough limits.
If there was a problem, Lindenmuth questioned why the fire did not break out sooner.
"If they're (the truck tractor) going to burn, they're going to burn when they're hot and not when they cool down," he said. "I was here four hours before the fire."
Fisher, who has training in fire investigation, said no cause of the blaze has been found.
"At this point there's really no determination," he said.
Fisher said he was not sure whether or not a state police fire marshal will be called in to assist.
The officer said that the vehicle fire Wednesday is being looked at more closely because of an arson fire last week in the Mahanoy Township village of New Boston.
Damages in car carrier fire may reach $150K
BY FRANK ANDRUSCAVAGE
STAFF WRITER
fandruscavage@republicanherald.com
09/07/2007
MAHANOY CITY - Damages could reach as high as $150,000 in a fire that severely damaged a car carrier and two sports cars in Mahanoy Township on Wednesday night.
Ronald Lindenmuth parked the 1994 Volvo car carrier loaded with two Volkswagen and five Audi high-end vehicles only to receive a telephone call hours later telling him that the truck and some of the cars were ablaze.
On Thursday, Lindenmuth and Gilberton-Mahanoy Township Regional Police Patrolman Lawrence Fisher examined the charred remains of the vehicles that included the tractor portion of the car carrier and two Audi Q7 sports cars.
Lindenmuth said the cars each had a sticker price of $57,895, while the truck was estimated to be valued between $20,000 and $25,000.
Lindenmuth said he returned from Rhode Island on Wednesday and parked the truck around 1 p.m.
He said he then washed the tractor, did several other odd jobs and went home, planning to return later that evening to deliver the cars to a dealership in Ohio.
It was just after 6 p.m. when the Schuylkill County 911 Center received a call about the fire and dispatched fire crews from Mahanoy City.
On scene, firefighters found the truck and one of the Q7 vehicles engulfed in flames.
Lindenmuth said the Audi Q7 directly above the tractor was destroyed, while the Q7 directly behind it was heavily damaged.
He said that he did not experience any mechanical problems with the truck while driving it or when he parked it at his garage just off of Route 54, east of the Mahanoy City borough limits.
If there was a problem, Lindenmuth questioned why the fire did not break out sooner.
"If they're (the truck tractor) going to burn, they're going to burn when they're hot and not when they cool down," he said. "I was here four hours before the fire."
Fisher, who has training in fire investigation, said no cause of the blaze has been found.
"At this point there's really no determination," he said.
Fisher said he was not sure whether or not a state police fire marshal will be called in to assist.
The officer said that the vehicle fire Wednesday is being looked at more closely because of an arson fire last week in the Mahanoy Township village of New Boston.
Melting Slicks
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From: Los Angeles
True... but wah. I wonder if people just check threads to see if they are in the right sections. 
I wonder if this incident is similar to the SUVs that were set on fire a while back in Colorado by enviro-wackos. Nothing saves the environment and air pollution like burning a car. Probably released more pollutants into the air than the entire emissions life of the vehicle
I wonder if this incident is similar to the SUVs that were set on fire a while back in Colorado by enviro-wackos. Nothing saves the environment and air pollution like burning a car. Probably released more pollutants into the air than the entire emissions life of the vehicle
