Anybody have any information on the huge house fire this afternoon on Rte 29 near the intersection of 29/Clifton Rd/Stringfellow Rd?

CENTREVILLE, Va. - Firefighters found the body of a man in the aftermath of a fire in the 13200 block of Lee Highway Monday afternoon.
Fairfax County (web | news) firefighters were called to the home about 2:20 p.m. They discovered heavy fire coming from the roof and a brush fire in the back of the house.

Fire officials say 60 firefighters were called to the two-alarm blaze, which required about 20 minutes to knock down.

No word what caused the fire.

Nothing beyond reports that they found a woman dead inside the home. By the looks of what was on TV a few minutes ago that was/is a huge house.

Traffic was a mess at that intersection around 4:00. Channel 4 reported that the body of an elderly man was found inside. The roof was totally gone by the time I went by. Sympathy for the family, not only their family member was killed but their house appeared to be a total loss.

They have a video of the fire... http://www.news8.net/news/stories/0209/595445.html

Judging from the video I believe that it is this house.

Sad...
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that sucs

raw footage:
http://www.wjla.com/mediaplayer.swf?file=http://www.acc-tv.com/sites/wjla/news/stories/0209/video/centrevillefatalfire0216.flv&autostart=true

news clip (wjla7):
http://www.wjla.com/news/stories/0209/595445_video.html?ref=newsstory

i haven't seen alot of houses well off like that, but that house is gone!
seems suspicious. poor guy was probably just enjoying a day off.

bummer.

I saw the smoke this afternoon, grabbed my camera equipment and jumped in the SUV. I didn't get very close, but I snapped a few photos on the driveby. I'll post them up shortly.

Im posting mine first. Hah!

Note the local news has taken over 7-11

Damn you! Anyhow, here's the best shot I could grab on the fly.







Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 02/16/2009 09:10PM by HIJACKER.

did you take that last one out of your mirror? Its all backwards

KeepOnTruckin Wrote:
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> did you take that last one out of your mirror? Its
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Here, fixed version.
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jimW Wrote:
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> i haven't seen alot of houses well off like that,
> but that house is gone!
> seems suspicious.


Jewish lightning.

I always wanted to know who in the hell would live in those homes? The location sucks!

Client 9 from Outerspace Wrote:
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> I always wanted to know who in the hell would live
> in those homes? The location sucks!


I drove by it on the way home to confirm the batch of houses I thought it was in, and the answer is "people with a lot of fucking money."

Those houses aren't the crammed in pieces of crap, those are big friggin houses. The kind of property you drive by and ask yourself who has the money to live there.

pgens Wrote:
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> Client 9 from Outerspace Wrote:
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> > I always wanted to know who in the hell would
> live
> > in those homes? The location sucks!
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> I drove by it on the way home to confirm the batch
> of houses I thought it was in, and the answer is
> "people with a lot of fucking money."
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> Those houses aren't the crammed in pieces of crap,
> those are big friggin houses. The kind of
> property you drive by and ask yourself who has the
> money to live there.


If I had the means to buy a large home, I'd never buy on Lee Highway. Who says they have money? They're probably some of the clowns that overextended themselves and the rest of us are now bailing them out.

KeepOnTruckin Wrote:
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> did you take that last one out of your mirror? Its
> all backwards

Ya, it was out of the driverside mirror. I had just turned off Stringfellow on 29S from the detour and was shooting shots in the mirror. Sorry, I should've flipped the image.

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god those pictures are crazy

Really, an electric blanket couldn't start a fire if it was dipped in gas then plugged in and turned on. This is a poor conclusion and instead of saying we're not sure they pass on a completely absurd lie.

Client 9 from Outerspace Wrote:
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> Client 9 from Outerspace Wrote:

> If I had the means to buy a large home, I'd never
> buy on Lee Highway. Who says they have money?
> They're probably some of the clowns that
> overextended themselves and the rest of us are now
> bailing them out.

Vietnamese. the old gentleman lived with his daughter and son-in-law. they were out of town for the weekend.

i think 90% of Fairfax County over-extended themselves.

anyone who bought a house worth more than 3x their annual income did...

Did the old guy die of smoke inhalation or was he char-broiled?

I don't understand the "Jewish lightning" bit when a homeowner is overextended....burning the place down does nothing for a borrower.

The lender is going to be the loss payee, not the buyer! The house will be rebuilt and if the owner was in default...the lender will foreclose, just like they would have if the place hadn't burned.

Jewish lightning is when you OWN the property outright and torch it for the insurance payoff because it may be more than you could sell the place for.

That fire was something

Fire Victim Identified
Nhien Duc Tran, 76, 13213 Lee Highway, has been identified as the victim of the house fire, Monday, February 16, 2009. According to the medical examiner, the cause of death was smoke inhalation and thermal burns.

According to fire investigators, the cause of the fire was a heating appliance too close to combustibles. An electric heater and an electric blanket were both near the point of fire origin.

This is the second fire fatality for 2009.

if people would stop being cheap asses and use the central heating system, instead of space heaters, then their houses woudlnt burn down.

Note to self. Place space heater next to murder scene before starting fire.