Garage fire was not suspicious? (From Gazette Series)

Garage fire was not suspicious?

SIR - Laughable! I read with surprise the news about the fire at the old garages on the junction of Uley Road and Bull Pitch in Dursley.

You wrote about the number of fire engines that attended and that the fire-fighters had to wear breathing apparatus etc and then I read that it was not being treated as suspicious. I have to admit that I did laugh at this point. This building has no power or any other services. It has lain empty for years, kids get up to all sorts of things in there and it has had fires before but they were smaller.

How do the people in charge come up with it not being suspicious? Is it spontaneous combustion? Was the sun so bright on the October day that it got too hot? Or was it that the police know that they have no chance of finding the culprits so won't bother wasting there motorist bashing time to look?

What about all the fires we have had at Bymacks old site? Were they suspicious?

I think we have an arson problem in Dursley and somebody really ought to get suspicious before it all goes up.

I write this after just walking past the Co-op in Rosebery Road after it was burnt down on Tuesday night. Was that also spontaneous combustion because the sun wasn't out at 2.30 this morning.

I wonder if that, after the Co-op has been rebuilt, the Post Office will re-open their bit? Or will it be closed and the fire given as an excuse, not that they seem to need much of an excuse to close post offices these days.

Again the elderly will suffer while it is closed for the four-six weeks rebuild time.

A R Greenhill, Gruntys Ltd, Rosebery Road, Dursley