Another "Mysterious" Fire in Springfield

[Timkin]

Sounds unlikely of an Act of God, at least.

[iloveionia]

I get ya soxfan.  Determination of what started the fire lies in the hands of the Fire Chief, and we may never know; fires are not like TV where they are "solved" in a one hour show, unfortunately.  And yes, the story you heard is what I hear from people with varied backgrounds with a little more juice to it.  I think the juice lends itself to some truth, but that is jut my opinion. 

Here is some information specific to fires in that area.  The block of Ionia b/w 7th and 8th and the corner of 7th towards Ionia.  Included is a bit more specific info about some of the owners as well.


455 E. 7th Street burned 3/23/09
Russell Thomas owns
"unknown cause"

17something Ionia burned 1/2/09 (garage apt.)
(don't know address, so don't know owner)
"heater plugged into faulty extension cord"/per fire chief

1721 Ionia burned 5/18/10
Tarpon IV LLC owns
"cigarette"/per fire chief

1715 Ionia burned 7/23/10
Russell Thomas owns
"unknown cause"

Others/appraisal records and visual look I know are gone/fire:

451 E. 7th sometime in the last 8 months
Russell Thomas owns

447 E. 7th Street sometime in 2009 burned
Deborah Jones owns

445 E. 7th fire damage, currently unsecured and open
Luke Stokes et. al owns

Further down Ionia:
1352 Ionia burned due to fire, Nov. 2009
subsequently demolished

3 fires in the last 1-2 years have been on homes owned by Russell Thomas. Either this man has bad luck, or something is awry. That was the point I was making.


Additionally, in regards to Tarpon IV LLC, they own several "homes" in Historic Springfield. This LLC is not an asset to Springfield.

404 W. 7th Street
Demolished due to neglect

1721 Ionia
boarded for years, burned due to fire in June 2010

1540 Clark
Empty lot, can't confirm a house was there

1323 Ionia
demolished due to neglect, year: 2008

1430 Liberty
on the eminent danger list
"Formal Track for demolition"

1647 Pearl
on the eminent danger list
"Formal Track for demolition"

I have photos, but I need an hour to get them from the camera to facebook to this site.  I hope to have an hour to do this in the next couple of days.

[Timkin]

Tarpon buys tax-sale properties.  I seriously doubt they would set them on fire. They recently acquired PS#4.  GOOD LUCK buring it to the ground.

[iloveionia]

I did not mean to infer that Tarpon IV LLC is starting fires.  That is not what I meant.  However every property they own has either been demolished or is on the track for demolition.

They buy and then ignore.

What's the point?

[Timkin]

I am not sure why, but I certainly can furnish you with a contact if you would like ..

[iloveionia]

if you have more than a mailing address, by all means send me the contact.

[Timkin]

Done..