Posts Tagged: Arson
Fire Chars Cammie Clagett Duplex
SPARTANBURG - The Spartanburg Public Safety Department is investigating a fire that damaged a duplex and the furniture of a recently evicted tenant Friday morning. (more...)
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Inside the arson ring: A must read. Police report indicates young Massachusetts firefighters were bored & greedy.
Report indicates the firefighters initially failed in lighting two of the three homes they are accused of torching.
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Five on-call firefighters charged with arson in Hampden County, Massachusetts. Members of Brimfield & Holland departments.
Three homes set on fire in June and July.
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Another FF Arsonist Goes Down
A SEBRING, OHIO, MAN WHO WAS A PAID-ON-CALL Firefighter was arrested and charged with setting a fire in his neighborhood.
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Mistakes Made at Hotel Fire Trial?
COLUMBIA -- The man convicted of setting a fire at a South Carolina hotel that killed six people in 2004 wants a federal judge to set aside his conviction because his attorneys made mistakes at his trial.
Acting as his own attorney, Eric Preston Hans …
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Woman Charged with Arson
PICKENS COUNTY -- A woman is charged with second-degree arson after a house fire in Pickens County earlier this month.
Doni Faith Hale Miles is in custody this morning at the Pickens County Detention Center in lieu of a $7,500 surety bond, according t…
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Fatal Shooting Scene Destroyed by Fire
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LAURENS COUNTY, S.C. -- Laurens County deputies are investigating a suspicious fire that destroyed a home where a man was fatally and …
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Police Seek to Identify Burned Body
AIKEN -- The Aiken County Coroner's Office and the Aiken County Sheriff's Office are asking for public assistance in identifying a woman whose burned body was discovered in a field on Storm Branch Road two weeks ago. The woman died on Aug. 11, but invest…
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Couple Charged in House Fire
JEFFERSON -- A young couple that was living in a $600,000 house when it was destroyed by fire in May has been charged with arson in the case, Monroe police say. Andrew William Currie, 26, and his wife, Carmin Colette Currie, 25, were arrested Monday at t…
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Ex-FF to Spend Five Years in Prison
BEAUFORT -- A former firefighter charged with starting a series of blazes in 2007 and 2008 in Palmetto Bluff that caused more than $1.4 million in damage was sentenced to five years in prison Monday.
Bryan Yeager, 24, of Beaufort pleaded no contest --…
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Commercial Fire Reported in Anderson
HOMELAND PARK - Three Anderson fire departments responded to a commercial fire off White Street in Anderson. Fire departments from Broadway Lake, Homeland Park and Centerville battled a fire Sunday at Campbell Metal Works on White Street. The fire was r…
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Deputies Searching for Arson Suspect
CHESTER COUNTY -- Fire investigators have named arson as the cause of a 3 alarm fire that destroyed a hunting cabin at Providence Fish and Game Hunt Club early Wednesday morning. The Chester County Sheriff's Office has posted a reward of $2,000 to anyone…
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Vacant Residential Building Fires Report
The Federal Emergency Management Agency's (FEMA) United States Fire Administration (USFA) issued a special report examining the characteristics of fires in vacant residential buildings. The report, Vacant Residential Building Fires, was developed by US…
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Women Were Killed Before Fires
AIKEN — Authorities say two women whose burned bodies were found at two fires in South Carolina were killed before they were burned. Aiken County Coroner Tim Carlton told multiple media outlets that both women died from suffocation. The bodies were fou…
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Mt. Pleasant FF’s Rescue Dog
MOUNT PLEASANT - Firefighters rescued at least one dog from a burning house this morning in the Park West subdivision. The fire was reported about 9:20 a.m. on Parsonage Woods Lane in Mount Pleasant. (more...)
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PD Arson Case Heats Up
BREAKING NEWS>>
LYNCHBURG -- Lynchburg Mayor Thompson Isaac has resigned from office during a heated town council meeting Tuesday night. Effective Wednesday at noon, Isaac will vacate the seat. Council was returning from a vote on the future of…
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Chief’s Job Threatened after Fire
LYNCHBURG - The mayor of a South Carolina town says he wants to fire the police chief for lack of response to a fire that gutted the police station last week, but one city councilman doesn't think the chief is going anywhere. (more...)
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SLED Investigates 2nd Suspicious Fire
HARTSVILLE -- A neighbor called 911 about a fire at a house on Ruby Road in Hartsville Thursday. Investigators say about 30% of the home was damaged. Crews were unable to immediately determine the cause of the fire. (more...)
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Arson Suspected in Police Dept Fire
LYNCHBURG - Fire destroyed the Lynchburg Police Department early Wednesday morning, and officials suspect arson. The fire comes just a few months after someone set fire to one of the town's police cruisers. (more...)
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Arson Suspected in Church Fire
NORTHSIDE – Little Stevens Creek Baptist Church was the scene of a suspicious fire Tuesday around 6:30 p.m. Two members of the church went to clean up the church since they would be out of town this weekend and when they arrived, they smelled and saw s…
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Walhalla Arsonist to Enter Georgia Rehab Program, Gets No Jail Time
WALHALLA — Cody Christian Dean LeCroy will spend no time in jail for burning a Walhalla church if he completes a Georgia drug rehabilitation program. Tenth Circuit Solicitor Chrissy Adams said Tuesday she was disappointed that Judge Cordell Maddox had…
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Arson Suspect in Hot Water
WALHALLA - Police have charged the suspect in the 2009 burning of a Walhalla church with multiple counts of vandalism only days before the youth’s scheduled court appearance on the arson and related charges. (more...)
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Arson On Murder Suspects Land
McCOLL - State police are in Marlboro County investigating arson of George Cousins' barn, which burned early Tuesday morning. Counsins, 42, is charged with murder in the death of his girlfriend, Tammy Locklear Norris, 42. According to Marlboro County Chi…
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