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Every year, there's got to be a few of these idiots :-( .p.jm 12-19-2006
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Posted by on December 19, 2006, 9:13 pm

http://www.theconservativevoice.com/ap/article.html?mi=D8M463J80&apc=9001

Electrical short preceded fatal Mo. fire
Tuesday, December 19, 2006 10:03:23 PM

Hours before a deadly fire at a group home, a maintenance man
intentionally short-circuited some wiring to cut off power while he
worked on the furnace, investigators said in a report issued Tuesday.

The report by the state fire marshal's office did not pinpoint the
cause of the Nov. 27 fire that killed 10 people at the home for the
mentally ill and disabled. But it listed an electrical short or
overload in "makeshift" wiring in the attic as a possible cause.

.................

A worker wanting to temporarily cut off power to part of a home would
ordinarily flip a circuit breaker manually, then reset it later. But
Forrester said he did not know which circuit breaker in the electrical
box led to the furnace.

Asked by the investigator why he didn't simply unplug the furnace, he
said: "I don't know, didn't even think about it."


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Posted by Bob_Loblaw on December 19, 2006, 9:57 pm
.p.jm@see_my_sig_for_address.com wrote


> Asked by the investigator why he didn't simply unplug the furnace,

"Unplug" the furnace???
The investigator must be the cousin of the maintenance man....

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Posted by on December 19, 2006, 10:40 pm
On Wed, 20 Dec 2006 02:57:05 GMT, "Bob_Loblaw"

>.p.jm@see_my_sig_for_address.com wrote
>
>
>> Asked by the investigator why he didn't simply unplug the furnace,
>
>"Unplug" the furnace???
>The investigator must be the cousin of the maintenance man....

        Some are C & P connected. Apparently this one was, the idjit
who started the fire said 'I don't know', not 'it's hard wired'.


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Posted by Jeffrey Lebowski on December 20, 2006, 2:36 am

> On Wed, 20 Dec 2006 02:57:05 GMT, "Bob_Loblaw"
>
> >.p.jm@see_my_sig_for_address.com wrote
> >
> >
> >> Asked by the investigator why he didn't simply unplug the furnace,
> >
> >"Unplug" the furnace???
> >The investigator must be the cousin of the maintenance man....
>
> Some are C & P connected. Apparently this one was, the idjit
> who started the fire said 'I don't know', not 'it's hard wired'.
>

C & P in many cases is an approved disconnecting means.

Still that doesn't matter much ( if at all )--what the guy needs is jail
time...plenty of it....in order to protect the rest of society from his
further bumbling.

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Posted by AKS on December 21, 2006, 4:45 pm
I hope that you guys think that, that is something unusual
in my line of work I would say that at-list dozen places
I work where customer do not know where disconnect or
main circuit breaker is I work on one today it took them
15 min. to find bloody main breaker, I have learn to sit
let them scramble for it.
Dido

>
> http://www.theconservativevoice.com/ap/article.html?mi=D8M463J80&apc=9001
>
> Electrical short preceded fatal Mo. fire
> Tuesday, December 19, 2006 10:03:23 PM
>
> Hours before a deadly fire at a group home, a maintenance man
> intentionally short-circuited some wiring to cut off power while he
> worked on the furnace, investigators said in a report issued Tuesday.
>
> The report by the state fire marshal's office did not pinpoint the
> cause of the Nov. 27 fire that killed 10 people at the home for the
> mentally ill and disabled. But it listed an electrical short or
> overload in "makeshift" wiring in the attic as a possible cause.
>
> .................
>
> A worker wanting to temporarily cut off power to part of a home would
> ordinarily flip a circuit breaker manually, then reset it later. But
> Forrester said he did not know which circuit breaker in the electrical
> box led to the furnace.
>
> Asked by the investigator why he didn't simply unplug the furnace, he
> said: "I don't know, didn't even think about it."
>
>
> --
> Click here every day to feed an animal that needs you today !!!
> http://www.theanimalrescuesite.com/
>
> Paul ( pjm @ pobox . com ) - remove spaces to email me
> 'Some days, it's just not worth chewing through the restraints.'
> 'With sufficient thrust, pigs fly just fine.'
> HVAC/R program for Palm PDA's
> Free demo now available online http://pmilligan.net/palm/



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