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STANNARD, Vt. (WCAX) Two Vermont State troopers are on paid leave while detectives investigate the circumstances of a fire in Stannard.
Tuesday morning, we learned Tpr. Stephen McGranaghan was put on paid leave after a mysterious fire on Stannard Mountain Road early Monday morning. Police say McGranaghan had a permit to burn brush on his property but not an A-frame building there.
McGranaghan has been a trooper for eight years.
Tuesday evening, police said Tpr. Jason Haley was also put on paid leave. They say Haley was also on the scene of the fire. He has been a trooper for almost four years.
The investigation is ongoing.

The latest discorvery is that tannerite was used,... a lot of it!

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Are you getting soft on me Jared... just a bullet??
I see it like this... 4 fires = 4 horses + 4 pieces of rope + 4 different directions + 4 limbs

Fuck the person(s) doing this ~> let oldschool justice prevail!!

Narcos modernized that...

When you piss off Pacho, it’ll cost you an arm and a leg...

For some reason my boss thinks we might be able to go to work tomorrow. It's going to be 20° all weekend.

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For some reason my boss thinks we might be able to go to work tomorrow. It's going to be 20° all weekend.

I heard @V-SHOT loves this weather in Indiana or Virginia

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For some reason my boss thinks we might be able to go to work tomorrow. It's going to be 20° all weekend.

Nope nope nope nope!!!! you guys can have that Shit!!!!

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I heard @V-SHOT loves this weather in Indiana or Virginia

In Virginia, and yes @V-SHOT does love this weather along with his love of Snakes and Spiders. I am still trying to understand him, but don't think it will happen.

“Spiders & Snakes”, song by Jim Stafford:

https://youtu.be/_TRJUAaQ2WU

This is my back deck and if you look close you can see the Bahamas as we cruise by.

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This is my back deck and if you look close you can see the Bahamas as we cruise by.

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For some reason my boss thinks we might be able to go to work tomorrow. It's going to be 20° all weekend.

Tim, that shot of the Sling under cover with snow.... hurts to look at! I don't know what you do, but I go to work in that much snow easily. Of course, I just drive to work in it. We are used to it being around as part of normal winter life!

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Tim, that shot of the Sling under cover with snow.... hurts to look at! I don't know what you do, but I go to work in that much snow easily. Of course, I just drive to work in it. We are used to it being around as part of normal winter life!

@Goats_Hogs I use to drive in this crap all the time when I drove Tractor Trailers. Although around here people are IDIOTS and drive like morons when it rains. So as I have gotten older, my life is not worth a job. If I did live somewhere that is used to Snow I Would drive in it. People here just suck at life in general. If I wasn't married I would have left this stupid state a long time ago. I am originally from Texas. I would LOVE to go back there.

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Tim, that shot of the Sling under cover with snow.... hurts to look at!

There's a Slingshot in that picture?!? Lord awmighty!

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Tim, that shot of the Sling under cover with snow.... hurts to look at!

Don't go looking at @MBMedic 's profile pic, then.

That one hurts too! It's cold and nasty in my area now, but at least the SS is clean, under cover, and in an insulated garage. I can heat it, but just a radiant kerosene heater when I need too. Still, temps dropped to negative double digits this week, and it still stays warm enough to melt the snow off Sharon's car.

I was cold past week here in Houston. But now in 50-60s and Sunday will be 72 Degrees. We are gonna go on a ride.

Just got back from another ride. 46 and sunshine. Beautiful outside!

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I was on my town's Fire Dept (volunteer) for about 12 years. When I took my current job, I went to reserve status. I had people at work that depended on me to get my part of the work completed, so that they had work to do. I was putting in 10 and 12 hour days, plus an hour and fifteen minute commute every day. If I didn't get my work completed, or didn't show up for work while I was on a fire run, they would send those people home. And the workers struggled with money issues and really needed to work.
But I remember a January night, we got called out. It was 11 PM, and I had just gotten to bed. It was a Sunday night, the worst for fires. The reason for that is this... living in a small community, that was the time the least people would be out. Those that worked 3rd shift, were at work by 11pm. Being Sunday, no 2nd shift people would be coming home. Indiana's blue laws would keep anyone from being out at a bar. So, if there was a fire to start, it would most likely get really out of control before anyone would notice it.

But that Sunday night was a bad one. It got down to -19, and the winds were howling. All the equipment had ice on it, and was hard to use. From the mist from the spray of the hoses, every painted body panel on the trucks were iced over. It was difficult to walk, as all around the house and inside (after the fire was out) was iced over and like a skating rink. We had 3 fires that night, all were houses, and we were just into the clean up of the first one on scene, when the second call came in. We split the men, and trucks, and went to the second one. While there, the first scene finished up, and returned to the station. We got a 3rd call, it was at a farmhouse that was on a little traveled road with only the one house on it. The call came in at 5:30am, someone on their way to work saw it. I went to that one too, but it was only to protect the surrounding buildings. The house had collapsed into the basement by the time we got the call.

I didn't sleep that night at all, other than maybe 30 minutes before the call came in. I went on to work, however I was late. That afternoon, the dept got called out on another house fire. When I got back to town, I went to that one. We were out all night with it, the winds kept restarting the fire. Temps that night got into the -20s, and the fire pumper froze up. We tried to get it back to the station to thaw, and brought out the other pumper. But the brakes were frozen. We got a generator running, and ran a kerosene heater with a tarp to thaw out the brakes. We finally got it thawed enough to go to the station, but the pump had busted from freezing so solid. It had to be rebuilt.

Sorry for so long a post, but I know personally what that is like. But.... I live in Indiana. Those temps are rare here, with many years not getting much below 0 all winter. Our friends to the north though, this would be the normal for them in the winter. And if anyone wonders, I didn't go to work on Tuesday. I had been up since Sunday morning other than a few minutes of sleep before this all started, and was awake basically for 48 hours. After being up that long, I couldn't sleep that day either, but crashed that night for 11 hours.

I have nothing but respect for the military, police, and fire fighters. They all do the jobs that most of us don't want to face.

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I know what your talking about. Been there done that.

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STANNARD, Vt. (WCAX) Two Vermont State troopers are on paid leave while detectives investigate the circumstances of a fire in Stannard.
Tuesday morning, we learned Tpr. Stephen McGranaghan was put on paid leave after a mysterious fire on Stannard Mountain Road early Monday morning. Police say McGranaghan had a permit to burn brush on his property but not an A-frame building there.
McGranaghan has been a trooper for eight years.
Tuesday evening, police said Tpr. Jason Haley was also put on paid leave. They say Haley was also on the scene of the fire. He has been a trooper for almost four years.
The investigation is ongoing.

The latest discorvery is that tannerite was used,... a lot of it!

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Hmm, sounds like someone wanted to get rid of a A frame!