Special to El Rrun-Rrun
The fire at the blaze that started at 916 E Monroe on Friday has ignited a conflagration between the city administration and fire department officials after residents' produced recorded documentation that fire trucks took nearly half an hour to respond to the fire that was only three blocks away.
Concurrently, sources close to the department say that investigators say they have found the 'signature" of a suspected serial arsonist at the structure that has been found in at least three other fires in the downtown area.
Residents near the scene said that the fire may have started in the attic of an abandoned home. The strong winds at the time carried the flames over to the home next door very quickly.
"The investigators found gasoline-soaked sponges at the scene jut like the ones they found in three other fires and they think they know who did it," said a resident. "It spread quickly, but the trucks took a long time to get there and several times the water pressure only allowed on guy with a hose to stand between the two buildings trying to spray both fires."
Sources in the city say city administrators have met with Brownsville Fire Chief Jarret Sheldon and his officers have been questioned on the slow response time that allowed the fire to fully engulf the two buildings before firefighters could set up their hoses and try to douse the flames.
"A guy here taped the whole thing once the fire started," said a resident who asked his name not be used. "At first we thought that the firefighters would put out the fire real quick, but they took a long time to get there and even longer to connect their hoses. Even once they set them up, the water pressure would fail."
Other sources say that the firefighters at the central fire station were unable to start their fire engines and arrived at the fire site too late to stop its spread to the house next door.
So was the total loss of two homes just three blocks away from the central fire station a combination of a serial arsonist and the delayed response of the fire department to the scene?
18 comments:
Jarret Sheldon is a useless arrogant asshole, anti Mexican racist, had very bad experience with the asshole during a business inspection for a CO
I TOLD YOU ON MY PREVIOUS post thanks to one Montoya blog. They are not organize and out of shape. They call themself "the boys from downtown" They need to stop seeing the "girls from downtown" and the boys cannot tell the difference of the girls
Next time call the Matamoros fire department. They will get here on time to save the property. And do not blame water pressure. They should be checking the fire hydrants pressure.
State senator Eddie Lucio state representative Eddie Lucio both representative of Cameron County all city government officials all Cameron County officials fire department Sheriff teacher rapist you all are an embarrassment to Cameron County you should be ashamed
Too many Mexican firefighters. They don't give a shit. Jorge, ponte los pantalones, Guey!
I beg to differ, I have seen how fast they move when grocery shopping at HEB! There's a Marshall Villarreal (Lurch) que no vale verga! He's another Michael Lopez. He thinks his shit don't stink and he's an assh&le to his underlings! The truth of the matter, we got too many firemen. Most of the time, they are doing shit or washing the fire trucks. I've noticed, that when it's a small brush fire, lots of them come to the rescue, but big fires they take their sweet time and fewer of them come. The fire chief, to be honest, is not respected and a Elizondo crony.
Winds stirred up flames.
Gusts were strong enough to postpone SpaceX launch
The city of Brownsville needs City Officials that stop Denying that THE FIRE DEPART. IN BROWNSVILLE has Proven to be Nonfunctional, Inept, and Of-course Corrupt.
It's too late to back track and get physically fit firefighters from the ranks, but maybe the City could require standards of fitness for new hires.
Who was the assistant Chief on that day put his ass in gear.
They better have fitness Standard test. AT my job it is every 2 years. AND who cares about Space X. they have high standards. You want to blame it on the Wind tell that to somebody who fights Mountain fires. Look back when Jim Johnson ropa usada burned to the ground. It is in front of the fire station 20 feet in front. And to think they only get about one fire a year and they still make a fire look bad. Downtown boys stay away from the "girls" downtown.
El pendejo bully Marshall Daniel Villarreal on Channel 5 News and talking like an idiot not making sense. The biggest assh&le and piece of shit in the fire department, after Bocanegra. Thinks he's big shit in front of the underlings. The city deserve better than this mother fuker.
Chief Cesar Pedraza should keep his hose in his pants, since he is married. Or maybe he can get his 15 minutes of fame putting out old flames.Poor wife at home busting ass while this idiot is taking care of his old flames.
This is really getting our of hand "When's it gonna rain" (smart people)
I can imagine how much time ex Fire Thief Carlos Elizondo will have to submit comments to the blogs when he is locked up in the pen.
He'll be with the rest of the gang in fla. he'll feel right at home. The feds built a barraca just for RGV turistas
Brownsville Fat Department BFD
all meskins and the only white is the chief what happened here???
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