![]() ![]() Tuesday at the Porter distribution center lumberyard on U.S. The first fire was reported at the Porter Building Supply store along Missouri 92 in Kearney at 10:33 p.m. Dogs trained to detect the presence of accelerants found the sources of the fires.Įvidence gathered at fire scenes will be taken to the ATF national laboratory in Rockville, Md., for further analysis, he said. Vido said there were similarities at both fire scenes, but he wouldn't say what they were. He said that investigators wanted to interview several current and former employees and several people who live near the locations, but that no arrests had been made.Ībout 70 investigators spent three days sorting through mounds of charred debris and twisted metal, trying to determine the cause of the fires. Vido said a 30-member arson task force made up of federal, state, county and local investigators had been formed to gather additional evidence and to interview several persons who may have information about the fires. "Both were criminal acts," Vido said at a news conference Saturday. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives in charge of the three-day investigation, had said the nature of the fires was suspicious but declined to further elaborate. Early estimates of the loss were about $2 million. ![]() The Schutte fire occurred one day after federal investigators announced that separate five-alarm fires that ravaged two family-owned businesses in Clay County were intentionally set.Īuthorities think the fires at the Porter Building Supply store in Kearney and the Porter distribution center in Mosby were deliberate acts, but they wouldn't say how they were set or why. Schutte operations manager Matt Brown said he did not know when the business would reopen. There was no immediate indication of any link to two lumberyard fires last week in Clay County. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives were on the scene. No damage estimate was available, and no cause had been determined. Smoke from the fire filled streets and seeped into buildings from downtown to the Country Club Plaza.īy 2 p.m., firefighters had contained the fire but were still putting out hot spots. The fire also melted two 36-foot flatbed trucks, but did not reach a 5,000-gallon underground gasoline tank. A huge lumber shed was destroyed, fire officials said, and a mobile building containing a sales office burned. ![]() The Schutte fire was reported at 2:42 a.m. It was the third lumberyard fire in the Kansas City area in the past week. A four-alarm fire early today heavily damaged Schutte Lumber, 3001 Southwest Blvd. ![]()
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