Cablevision News 12 is reporting that
The Greenwich Fire Department is currently looking into the possibility that lightning started the
Arnold Bakery Thrift Shop Fire.
The Greenwich Fire Department is currently looking into the possibility that lightning started the
Arnold Bakery Thrift Shop Fire.
Two external propane tanks connected to the steel framed thrift shop began to shoot flames, and thus alerting factory workers to the fire.
The building was a total lost and will be torn down once the fire and insurance investigations are complete.
Please see:
The Greenwich Time Provides An Update On the Arnold Bakery Fire
Update:
The Greenwich Fire Department
Now Says It Was Power Lines:
Officials say downed power line cause of fire
Article Launched: 06/10/2008 02:30:05 PM EDT
The Monday morning fire which engulfed the former Arnold backery in Byram was started by a downed power line lying on a chain link fence which touched two outdoor propane gas cylinders, fire officials said today. The wire, knocked down during a storm Sunday afternoon, carried 27,000 volts through the fence, which runs several hundred feet along Hamilton Avenue from a nearby railroad bridge to the bakery property, Fire Inspector John Fronio. The fire, which began at 1:18 a.m. Monday, gutted the small store outside of the George Weston Bakeries on Hamilton Avenue. The voltage caused the safety valves on the tanks to blow off, igniting the pressurized gas and shooting flames upward out of the tanks, Fronio said. "The fence was energized which caused the propane to be ignited," Fronio said. Fronio said it is unclear why the downed wires were carrying electricity, because the wires are supposed to shut down automatically when they fall down.
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