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Heywood_Floyd wrote

Well, that's what happens with these "five over one" apartments, they seem to burn down a lot when the all they have up are the wooden frame, before the insulation and drywall are installed and the outer "skin" is put up. "Engineered lumber" is just wood treated with petrochemicals, so it burns well. (A "five over one" has a cement ground floor, usually a parking garage, then five stories of wood framing hidden by fake stucco or fake brick. In California, many of these places are being built without the cement ground floor. "Well There's Your Problem" did an entire episode on these buildings: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xVodkE47aLw .)

The Earth Liberation Front is no longer around to be used as a false-flag for insurance scammers, so it will be interesting to see who or what gets blamed.

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