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ORIGINAL: Fellow

Insurance scam?

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ORIGINAL: popeye1250

Neither of you two wins a Teddy Bear!
They said it's high winds gusting up to 50 mph that are knocking down dead tree limbs which are falling on wires and then houses and setting them on fire.
And of course there's no money in the budget to trim dead tree limbs and the Fire Dept has been cut to the bone.
Another causal effect of this wonderfull "global economy".

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/39049112/ns/us_news-life/

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ORIGINAL: popeye1250

Big fires in multiple houses and buildings in Detroit!
Twenty at last count, I'm watching it on CNN now.

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ORIGINAL: rulemylife

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ORIGINAL: popeye1250

Neither of you two wins a Teddy Bear!
They said it's high winds gusting up to 50 mph that are knocking down dead tree limbs which are falling on wires and then houses and setting them on fire.
And of course there's no money in the budget to trim dead tree limbs and the Fire Dept has been cut to the bone.
Another causal effect of this wonderfull "global economy".

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/39049112/ns/us_news-life/

A causal effect of the global economy because high winds knocked over some power lines which caused fires.

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You go Popeye.

I've been noticing you're really on a roll lately.

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causal effect of this wonderfull "global economy".

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"Our priority was trying to save the occupied homes," Williams told The Detroit News, adding the number was not unusually high but seemed so because they were concentrated. "We've had five to six pockets that have experienced multiple dwelling fires because of winds."

Ian Perrotta told the Free Press that he noticed a fire in his neighbor's Moenart garage on the northeast side; three hours later his own garage, several houses away, was ablaze.

"My immediate thought when I saw the fire was it shouldn't have been that bad," Perrotta, a former firefighter, told the News. "It could have been contained sooner."

Perrotta said it took more than 30 minutes for police and fire to arrive.

Doris Lee and her husband, Ernest Lee, told the Free Press they are devastated after watching their house in the 12300 block of Moenart on Detroit's northeast side go up in flames.

"I was changing clothes for work when I heard my neighbor knocking on the door saying 'Get out, get out,'" Doris Lee said. "We've lost everything. We just left with the clothes on our backs."

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ORIGINAL: DarkSteven

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ORIGINAL: Fellow

Insurance scam?

I doubt it.  My guess is vandalism.