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 Neighbors call fires "suspicious" web posted July 23, 2007  BETTIS ACADEMY –
County Line and
Merriwether Firefighters were called to the second of two house fires
in the Bettis Academy Road area Sunday morning around 9:20 am. The
house, located on the corner of Bettis Academy Road Extension and
Highway 25, is right next door to County Line Fire Department Station
2.
The first fire, which was reported just after 2 am Sunday, is on the
other side and across the street of the fire station. Both fires appear
to have started in the rear of the homes.Firemen were able to save a majority of the second home though it sustained heavy fire, smoke, and water damage. The rear porch and utility area of the home was destroyed. Firefighters were able to extinguish the blaze in about an hour and left the scene just after noon. The homeowner was not present at the time the fire started. The earlier fire completely destroyed the inside of the first home and left only charred remains inside and the main roof perilously intact. The homeowner was inside of the home at the time of the 2 am fire but was able to escape uninjured. Neighbors were suspicious of two fires just a couple hundred yards apart on the same day. “I hope they are going to have somebody look into this,” one woman that asked her name not be used said, “that’s just too big of a coincidence.”  Fire
officials on the scene would not comment. Other neighbors were equally suspicious of not only the short amount of time between the two fires but the similarities in the house designs and the location of the point of origin of the fires. County Line Fire Chief Tim Malcolm, who was in Myrtle Beach attending a training seminar, was reached by phone and said he felt sure his department would look into the fires. “As I understand”, Chief Malcolm said, “one of our firemen rode by and saw smoke coming from the back of the (second) house.” Chief Malcolm said the fireman went to the back of the house and “knocked the power meter off the house, but it was too late, it had already gotten in the house.” Chief Malcolm said the second fire was “electrical in nature” but he did not know the cause of the earlier fire. Below: The Tucker Drive home that burned earlier in the morning  For
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