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Multiple Arson Fires Reported Near Seattle, WA

08:27 AM PST on Monday, March 3, 2008

'Street of Dream' homes burned by blaze

Domestic Terrorism?

By TIM ROBINSON / KING 5 News and Associated Press

WOODINVILLE, Wash. - An early morning fire still burning at the "Street of Dreams" model luxury home development in Echo Lake just north of Woodinville has destroyed at least three homes, and officials believe a well-known arsonist group is responsible.

No injuries have been reported in the three-alarm fire, which started around 05:00 a.m. (PST) Monday.

Snohomish County District Seven Chief Rick Eastman said a sign saying ELF was left at the scene. ELF or Earth Liberation Front has claimed responsibility for other arsons, including one at the University of Washington in 2001 for which a woman is now on trial in Tacoma.

Eastman said some of the homes were still under construction and no one was living in the homes at the time. Three homes were completely destroyed and one home had heat and smoke damage. Eastman said fires also were set at a total of six homes.

Eastman said that the fires were suspicious because they were set in multiple places in separate homes...

(Editor's note: "The Street of Dreams" is an annual showcase of luxury homes in the Seattle area.)

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"Series of EmergencyNet News Reports Concerning Allegations that the Earth Liberation Front (ELF) Calls For "Direct Action" Against FBI: 14-15 Mar to 05 April 2001," can be found at: http://www.emergency.com/2001/fbi-alf2001.htm

Monday, January 4, 1998-Vol. 5, No. 004, Special to EmergencyNet News, "AMERICAN ECO-TERRORISM: ANOTHER THREAT? OR IS IT A PROMISE?" By Tim W. Rhodes, M.Sc., EMT-P, Chairman, Ada County Terrorism Taskforce-Boise, Idaho Can be found at: http://www.emergency.com/1999/ecoter99.htm

Miscellanious (Single Issue) Terrorism: Narco-Terrorism, Animal Right Groups, Environmental Terrorism and Arnarchists http://www.emergency.com/pdf/misc-terrorism2001.pdf