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Re: Fire

To: Tyler Buck <tpbuck@u.arizona.edu>, J Constantino <jjcon2@yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: Fire
From: Douglas Braun & Nadia Papakonstantinou <doug@dougbraun.com>
Date: Sun, 10 Jun 2001 09:02:10 -0400
Spontaneous Automotive Compustion?

Doug Braun
'72 Spit

At 12:10 AM 6/10/01 , Tyler Buck wrote:
>After removing the heater motor today and looking at the melted plastic 
>fan, my suspicion is that the motor didn't start the fire but rather heated 
>pine needles.  The way the fan melted leads me to believe that the motor 
>was on and spinning when the needles started to burn and then ignited the 
>fan blades.  Is this feasible?  Has anyone had a similar experience?  There 
>weren't a lot of pine needles in there so I'm still a little skeptical 
>about my theory.
>
>-Tyler

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