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Mr. Play wrote:A police report is open and they are increasing late night / early morning patrols in the area. I'm definitely installing flood lights with motion sensors.

Mr. Play wrote:

Sam wrote:The guy that stopped and woke you, did he have reason to be in the area? I am most glad he was there and just happened to be turning around at the Right Time. Kind of a co inky dinky he was there at that moment. I mean, is it possible he may have set the fire, and then ran and woke you? Did you get a tag number or remember what he looked like or drove? I understand the way way you were wken up and all of the going on, if you didn't get any of that.

I didn't write down any specific information, but I did give a general description to the officer who came out last night. The guy seemed pretty freaked out by the whole thing to me. I'm just glad somebody woke us up before the fire got any bigger!

PHarmGirl wrote:Although it is weird that someone was right there .... isn't there such a thing as a "hero syndrome" - you know - where somebody causes a disaster and then they happen to be right there to "save the day?"

PHarmGirl wrote:Although it is weird that someone was right there .... isn't there such a thing as a "hero syndrome" - you know - where somebody causes a disaster and then they happen to be right there to "save the day?"

Mr. Play wrote:We woke up about 1AM to the sound of loud banging on our door. This guy was turning around in our culdesac and saw a fire on the side of our house. It looks like someone poured lighter fluid on my plastic hose reel and set it on fire. It's close to the wooden fence on that side of the house, and the fire had started spreading up it. Another foot and the wooden eve under the roofline would have caught on fire too. Luckily the hose wasn't completely melted and I was able to put the fire out pretty quickly.

I don't think I have anyone trying to get back at me for anything, so it was probably just some kids out messing around. An officer came out and he's checking out the area in case any other houses were vandalized, so we'll see. I'm only out $50 for the hose and the reel, but somebody almost set my house on fire while we were sleeping.


Hey bud,

I'm just getting to this. Spainjane and I are real sorry. Glad it was just a hose. Some people are real idiots. Happy the family is ok.

WTF?!


Edited to add some pictures;

Mr. Play wrote:The fire department never called me back, so I don't have an expert opinion yet. I'll follow up with them tomorrow on getting an arson investigator to look at it. I could have been fooled but the guy who knocked on the door seemed pretty sincere. He looked to be in his 30's and my wife thinks his wife / girlfriend was over by his car.

Mr. Play wrote:After studying the area some more this afternoon, I really think the hose caught on fire first. The burned hole in the fence looks like it was probably already there. Some other boards have similar sections that could burn away pretty quickly. This picture shows how much the side of the hose reel was melted, like it had been burning for a while.





The fire department never called me back, so I don't have an expert opinion yet. I'll follow up with them tomorrow on getting an arson investigator to look at it. I could have been fooled but the guy who knocked on the door seemed pretty sincere. He looked to be in his 30's and my wife thinks his wife / girlfriend was over by his car.